试析北周武帝释放奴婢的原因

北周武帝释放奴婢，既有人为因素，也有客观因素。两晋至南北朝时期奴婢的大量出现，有战争、民族矛盾、自然灾害、少数民族落后等诸原因。随着内迁各少数民族封建化的完成，民族融合的深化，门阀势力的削弱，解放奴婢的阻力大为减少；加之北周武帝个人儒学修养好，又出于灭亡北齐追求天下一统的目标，通过释放奴婢以缓和阶级矛盾和民族矛盾就成为一种必然。

The Cause of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Releasing Slaves

The cause that Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty released slaves was both human factor and objective factor.From the Western Jin Dynasty to the South north Dynasties,the reasons of lots of slaves'emergence were as follows: the war, national contradictory,natural disasters and minority nationality fall behind.With the finishing of feudalism of the minority nationality , the deepening of national fusion, the weakening of a family of power and influence forces,the resistance reduced greatly on liberating slaves,in addition emperor Wu of Northern Zhou Dynasty,was good on confucianism actuated by the aim of dying out the Northern Qi Dynasty and pursued of unity of the whole country, it is certain to release slaves to mitigate class and national contradiction.