Abstract:

The Imperial College of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was built in the year before SIMA Rui became emperor （317）, and the Imperial Academy was established in the third year of Xiankang （337）. After the abolition of the Imperial Academy in the eighth year of Yonghe （352）, it was rebuilt in the ninth year of Taiyuan （384）. The doctorate system of Imperial College in the Eastern Jin Dynasty experienced the development process from five doctorate system to nine doctorate system, and then to eleven doctorate system and sixteen doctorate system. Although the selection of Imperial College and Imperial Academy doctor took Confucian learning as the primary standard, it was still the personnel arrangement in the political field. In the early and middle of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, doctors were regarded as political resources and used in the treatment of the relationship between the imperial court and local society. The imperial court appeased the gentry in Kuaiji on the edge by recruiting doctors; The YU clan from Yingchuan, who competed with the WANG clan from Langya for Jiangzhou, won the hearts of the people by recommending Jiangzhou figures. After the Feishui War, the political symbolism of the doctor’s political power, Imperial College and Imperial Academy was highlighted by Emperor Xiaowu and applied in the political game of adjusting the Aristocratic policy.

Key words: the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Confucian officials, doctors, Imperial College, Imperial Academy