The Concept Of Hero In The Late Han Dynasty And Three Kingdoms

The hero is an eternal topic of mankind. As the total of people's attitude and view to hero, the concept of hero, which take as core and merit as destination, comes from hero's practice. It is expressed in many different levels from the couragement to philosophy thought, and also it can be very different because of the age, nation, culture and personal idea.Chinese traditional concept of hero appeared in the pre-Qin dynasty and did not fully develop in the Qin and Han dynasties which were in a unified political enviroment. Untill the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, heroes grew up in the domestic trouble and foreign invasion. The bankrupt of emperor's authority offer a good opportunity to heroes' emergeing. It was the just comment that helped heroes go upon the historical stage, and the celebrity hero become became the focus of the society. Hero become one of topics of personage judge which promoted the development of the concept of hero theoretically. One must not overlook the fact that celebrities' contradictory and depressed mentality in the late Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms became the psychological basis of the estabilishment of hero authority and psychological motivation of the fast development of the concept of hero. Therefore, the time of anarchy and disorder in the late Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms become the real "Era of Heroes" in Chinese history, which not only fostered many heroes, but also ripe concept of hero.Under the promotion of constantly varying political situation, the concept of hero in the late Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms experienced three stages which were celebrity hero, hegemon hero,and sage hero. It formed a theoretical system included the production, quality, location, classification, evaluation, inspection and so on. Heroes are some bright and brave people who have the opportunity to bring order out of chaos and save people and country. This is the core part of the concept of hero, and it is the reason why those people stood lofty and be took seriously in their age. What's more, it was the vigor that the heroes and the concept of hero could exist eternally.From the development and construct, the concept of hero in the late Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms was comprehensive, and it developed simultaneous in multidimension, which led to the prevailing of hero worship. The concept of hero madeheroes become the ideal personality in people's heart then and guided the trend of personality of upholding the reasonable, valuing demeanour and respecting humanity. And the concept of hero's strong politics care promoted the launding of the practical politics.After Han and Wei dynasties, because of the change of the political situation, the defect of concept of hero itself, and the form of the sage culture tradition, the concept of hero retired from the political field and developed vigorously in the literature field. During the course of the development, the concept of hero was extensive gradually and the hero culture finished the transformation from the elite culture to the mass culture.