西夏的外戚专权及其影响

外戚专权是君主专制集权政治体制下经常发生的现象。西夏外戚专权局面的形成，除了一般王朝所共有的条件之外，还与党项的社会发展以及西夏专制集权制度不甚完善有关。没藏、梁、任三大家族相继利用他们攫取的权力，为了他们所代表的小集团的利益而为所欲为，严重损害了西夏统治阶级的根本利益，不仅给西夏社会历史发展造成消极影响，还使西夏与宋、辽、金诸政权的关系变得更加错综复杂。

Emperors' Female-side Relatives' Power-monopolizing of Xixia and its Influences

The Mozang, Liang and Ren families controlled the power of the Xixia Regime in Succession for about sixty years. which was one of the fundamental contents of the power struggle among the ruling group. The emperors after Yuan Hao were all very young, the then dictatorship of the royal family was far from mature and too many nobles' Participating in government were considered the main reasons. The emperors' female-sicde relatives' power-monopolizing and wantonly engaging in military ventures policy shook the xixia Regime, effected the process of its social development, made the relationshlps with the peripherie countries become more complicated and disadvantageous in the diplomatic affaits.