唐政府贬降官员的几个原则

唐代有很多官员受到贬谪处罚，但官员受贬过程纷繁复杂。文章通过对官员受贬依据、受贬地点及官品下降幅度等方面的考察，认为唐政府依照一定的惯例，即依法贬官、补阙外任、品阶相近、重罪重贬等原则来贬谪官员。这些原则也是理解唐代官制的重要环节。

On Four Punishment Rules of Degrading Officials Obeyed by the Government of Tang Dynasty

Compared with preceding dynasties, more central government officials were degraded during Tang Dynasty. Some historians have got some achievements in studying the reasons why the officials were degraded, but how the Tang Government decided their recommended places and their degraded ranks was still vague. Based on the analysis of the number of degraded officials, this article shows that Tang government obeyed certain rules to relegate officials like degrading officials by law, filling local official vacancy, and transferring felonious officials to faraway southern states. These rules are also very important to understand the systems of bureaucracy of Tang Dynasty.