拓跋鲜卑早期的权力继承

拓跋鲜卑早期的权力继承关系，史学界已有基本看法，似无疑义。然而细究史料，发现在处于社会形态变革中的盛乐时期，拓跋部落酋长权力的真正获得，始终深受其母系社会传统遗留下来的政治承继习惯的影响，而此后北魏王权的逐步形成则正是沿革并克服这一影响的过程。

The Early Succession of Power in Tuoba Xianbei

As to the relationShip of succession of power in Tuoba Xianbei, there has ben an accepted opinion in the circles of historians, about which no doubt has ever arisen. However, a careful investigation into the historical data reveals that, in the Shengle period, which found itself in a rapid change in social formation, the actual acquining of power by a tribal chief of the Tuoba tribe had always ben under the great influence of the conventional political inheritage handed down generations after generations in a matrilineal society, and the gradual coming into being of monarchical power of the Northern Wei Dynasty is just a process of changing and overcoming that influence.