北魏统治者拓拨氏，原为北方游牧民族鲜卑族的一部。在入主中原以前，他们还处于奴隶制阶段，但在统一北方的过程中，逐渐被中原文化和封建生产关系所同化。在最高统治者的示范和鼓励下，贵族们带头放弃游牧式生产生活方式，积极接受中原定居农业的生产生活方式，同时，还对战 Extension of the Northern Wei Dynasty governor, was originally a northern nomadic Xianbei. Before entering the Central Plains, they were still in the stage of slavery, but they were gradually assimilated by the relations between the Central Plains culture and feudal production in the process of unifying the North. Under the demonstration and encouragement of the highest rulers, the aristocrats took the lead in abandoning the nomadic production and lifestyle and actively accepted the production and life style of the settled agriculture in the Central Plains. At the same time,