Integrating into China:The Legitimacy Construction of the Later Zhao Regime
During the Sixteen Kingdoms period,the Chinese orthodoxy posed a huge threat to the legitimacy of the Five Hu Dynasty.In order to resolve the legitimacy crisis,at the beginning of establishing political power,Shi Le adopted the laws of the Western Zhou,Han,Jin,and other Chinese dynasties to construct the political system of Later Zhao,with the aim of building Later Zhao into a Chinese imperial regime in terms of the Ritual and Music Culture of the Pre-Qin Period and the Confucian Moral Idealism,cultural relics system,and other aspects.Not only that,Shi Le also actively practices the traditional Confucian concept of rule of virtue,rel-ying on traditional Chinese imperial deification methods,and strives to create his own image as the legitimate ruler of China.The construction of the Huaxia style of the Later Zhao regime not only provided a reference template for the successive Five Hu dynasties that later occupied the Central Plains,but also promoted the process of ethnic integration during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.
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