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Most Chinese courtiers or bureaucrats were agaist the imperial tours for fear that the emperors should not rob them of bureaucratic prerogatives. So they remonstrated about imperial tours. Most emperors remained ensconced behind palace walls, but a few emperors such as Shi Huangdi of Qin Dynasty, Wudi of the Former Han, Yangdi of Sui dynasty went around their empire. Generally speaking, the “Babarian” khans of non-Chinese dynastys such as Khitai(Liao), Jourchen(Jin), Mongol(Yuan) went around their own lands, whereas Chinese emperors did not enjoy the imperial tour or tour of inspection. The imperial tours of Beiwei “khans” or emperors was similar to the conuest dynasty. But Chinese courtiers or bureaucrats of Beiwei hardly remonstrated about imperial tours why they have no political power and influence in first half of Beiwei Period. After the emperor of Xiaowendi, they put forward a constractive opinions of the imperial tours and Xiaowendi’s campaign against NanQi, one of Southern Chinese dynasties. In period of Xuanwudi and Xiaomingdi, only one Chinese official remonstrated about imperial tours, which was not seasonal sojourns of “Babarian” khans of non-Chinese dynasties but Chinese imperial tour to Ye, influenced to Chinese features. In other words, they could not advise on or remonstrate about imperial tour as seasonal sojourning inflected by namads or pastoral people. It was an odd irony but main features of imperial tours in Beiwei Period.