The concept of officials in modern China is not the same as the concept of officials in ancient China, but is slightly different and different.
The concept of officials in ancient China is a big concept. Officials can be clearly divided into two small concepts: ** and officials;That is to say, the large group of officials in ancient times can be divided into two completely different small groups: ** and officials.
In modern China, there is only the title of the concept of **, and there is no title of the concept of officials. However, although there is no concept of officials, there is still a group of officials equivalent to ancient officials.
1. Officials in ancient China.
The officials of ancient China were the staff at all levels, equivalent to modern state civil servants and public officials, who performed state official duties, and those who "ate the emperor's grain" were supported by financial allocations.
However, under the big concept of officials, it can be clearly divided into two small concepts: ** and officials. That is to say, in the large group of officials, two completely different small groups of ** and officials have been formed.
And not all of them have power, and there are also idleness of fictitious positions with little power**;It is not that the officials have no power, but there are also those who wield considerable power.
The difference between the best and the officials in ancient China is mainly the distinction between official ranks and grades**All of them have official ranks, while all of the officials have no official ranks.
1) **Ancient China**, the official positions they held were all at a clear level.
From the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were nine life levelsIn the Han Dynasty, the number of Lu rank was used as another name for the ** level, the highest prime minister was ten thousand stones, and the lowest pavilion was one hundred stones.
During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the first level of the "nine products in the positive system", each product is divided into two levels, from two levels, is "nine products and eighteen levels". Some dynasties start from the fourth grade, and the subordinate products are divided into upper and lower levels, so that the level of ** is a total of 30 levels. Some dynasties also gave princes and dignitaries official grades above the "nine grades and eighteen levels", becoming the so-called "super grade".
After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the system of "nine grades and eighteen grades" was basically fixed, and the dynasties basically remained the same, with official ranks, also known as "inflow" and "in-stream".
People in ancient times, the county order, the county, that is, the equivalent of today's county magistrate, jokingly called the "seven-grade sesame official", even if it is a "sesame official", isn't that also an official, and it also belongs to the ** with official rank!
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