The imperial army was an army subordinate to the emperor in feudal times and served as a guard for the emperor or the palace and capital.

Due to the differences of times, cultures and regions, there are other synonyms, such as guards, guards, guards, guards and so on.

After the decline of the feudal era, these names often became military honorary titles, which were awarded to troops that established special achievements.

In modern times, except for some countries with constitutional monarchy, orthodox guards were retained. Other countries that were not ruled by kings in name, such as democratic countries and socialist countries, all had military forces similar to "gendarmerie" or security forces.

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Imperial guards in various dynasties:

1, Qin dynasty

During the Qin Dynasty, Wei was in An Lushan's palace, and his lieutenant was in An Lushan.

2. Han dynasty

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the extension attacked the south and north armies. Wei Wei led the South Army to guard Miyagi; The lieutenant unified the northern army and defended the imperial city.

3. Three countries

Cao Pi, the Emperor of Wei Wen, selected elite guards from the existing "Tiger and Leopard Rides" (cavalry regiments belonging to Tiger Camp and Leopard Camp respectively) to form a bodyguard team, which was called "Wu Weijun" in history.

Wei's butch riding was originally composed of Cao Cao, an imperial commander in the Han Dynasty. The Chief Executive has always been Cao Chun, Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu of the Cao Shi clan. This is the origin of the imperial army of Cao Wei.

4. Sui Dynasty

There are twelve guards in the East Palace (left and right guards, left and right guards, left and right Wu guards, left and right guards, left and right royal guards) and six rates (prince left and right guards, prince left and right guards, prince left and right sweeps).

5. Tang Dynasty

Following the twelve guards of Sui Dynasty (left and right guards were renamed left and right guards, left and right tunwei were renamed left and right guards, left and right waiting guards were renamed left and right Jinwu guards, and left and right guards were renamed left and right leading guards), four guards were added (left and right thousand cattle guards and left and right prison guards), which were called Nanya Sixteen Guards.

6. Song Dynasty

(1) Zhao Kuangyin, northern Song Taizu, was commanded by the imperial army in the Five Dynasties and the Later Zhou Dynasty. After the mutiny, Chen Qiao was given a yellow robe and was acclaimed as the founding emperor by the Imperial Army.

Later, Zhao Kuangyin invited many senior military attaché s who supported him to drink to relieve boredom, and a centralized imperial army was established in Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty. In order to obey the emperor's orders, Song Taizong once again cooperated and restricted each other, thus preventing the disaster in the separatist regions in the pre-Tang Dynasty.

(2) In the Southern Song Dynasty, the garrison troops replaced the forbidden soldiers and became regular troops, while the remaining forbidden soldiers in various places became specialized handyman and non-combat troops.

7. Yuan Dynasty

In the Yuan Dynasty, the central imperial army was called the Suwei Army, which was divided into the "cowardly army" led by the emperor himself and the bodyguard pro-army led by the Privy Council.

8. Ming dynasty

The imperial army of the Ming Dynasty was divided into the Beijing camp guarding the capital and the Shangzhi 26 Wei pro-army guarding the imperial city.

9. Qing dynasty

At the beginning of Qing dynasty, he entered the customs and followed the Ming system.

After the occupation and control of the whole country was completed, the main force of the Eight Banners was placed in the capital, and the security system of palaces and the capital was re-established.

In the late Qing Dynasty, under the oppression of internal troubles and foreign invasion, the Qing court created a new type of guards: Jishen Camp, equipped with new western-style weapons, and soldiers were selected from the original Eight Banners Guards Barracks.

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