On the Changes in the Status of the South-migrating Xianbei Musketeers after the Relocation of the Capital by the Northern Wei Dynasty
Northern Wei Taihe eighteen years(494),Emperor Xiaowen in order to consolidate power,strengthen the rule of the Central Plains,so from Pingcheng moved the capital of Luoyang,and its reform measures of Sinicisation,although reducing the national antagonism,for the unification of the north and south laid the foundation,but only a few decades later the six towns of the revolt subverted the Northern Wei rule.In this whole process,the Xianbei warriors played an important role,in which the Xianbei war-rior group who moved south with Emperor Xiaowen had a significant change in status at this time,and through the process of the change in their socio-political status,they could reflect the change of the situ-ation in the Northern Wei Dynasty after the relocation of the capital,and the political process in the mid-and late-Northern Wei Dynasty from a new perspective.
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