The Accepted History Of Guanzi (before Song Dynasty)

The accepted history of Guanzi(before Song dynasty)mainly gives diachronicin discussion about Guanzi-accepted,history.The thesis consists of three parts,introductory remarks,the main thesis,the conclusion.Introduction remarks gives a brief review about Guanzi-study since the establishment of new China,bring up the writing scope,methods and significance of The accepted history of Guanzi.The main thesis.Chapter I is about the discussion for Guan Zhong thoughts and the book,Guanzi.First,it analyses Guan Zhong's reformation ideas of domestic and foreign policy based on the materials in Guoyu and Zuozhuan.Second,it collects some information from the comments on Guan Zhong given by Pre-Qin philosephers.On the combination of both,it brings about the conclusion,that Guan Zhong thoughts was a kind of Bashu ideas that focused how to make the country rich and powerful,how to order the other States and drive minorities out by virtue of Zhou emperor' s power.Guanzi,as a writing of Guan Zhong school during the latter half Warring States,on the one hand,it inherited Guan Zhong' s idea,on the other hand,it made up for its inadequate.Guan Zhong school was influenced by the thought contend atmosphere of Warring States,which brought Guanzi a clear characteristic with kinds of thoughts.ChapterⅡis about the discussion for Guanzi-accepted during Han dynasty.The early Han dynasty rulers carried out Huanglao policy,which opened up a broad space for Guanzi-accepted.The appearance of"Wenjing Golden Age"closely linked to practice of Huanglao thoughts in Guanzi.Jia Yi and Chao Cuo's reports and writtings drew a lot of ideas,such as rite,law,serving the Community and military.Huainanzi gave the first explanation to Guanzi's writing.Its views on gas,a dynamic original material force,and how to preserve one's health,originated from corresponding parts in Guanzi.Hanwu emperor with ambitious and militaristic ideas made court financial tense,Qingzhong theory became their accepting object for finance ministers like Sun Hongyang.Only Confucianism cultural policy limited the spread of Guanzi.After it,only Sima Qian,Liu Xiang did some research in Guan Yan biography of Shiji and a preface of Guanzi.ChapterⅢis about the discussion for Guanzi accepted during Wei,Jin,Northern and Southern Dynasties,Guanzi-accepted had a new development on the base of accepted flourishing in Han dynasty.It mainly showed Zhuge Liang's comprehensive practice of the theory of agriculture being tha main,the rule of law,the rule of moral and military thought,and showed the identifiaction for QingZhong in Guanzi by Fu Xuan following Liu Xiang. Guanzi-accepted in Northern and Southern Dynasties slid a low point.Liu Xie's comment on Guanzi's literate style was the main accepted content. ChapterⅣwas about the discussion for Guanzi accepted during Tang Dynasty.Quoting the classical phrases for proof of discussion is common content in the Guanzi-accepted history.In terms of Tang Dynasty,besides quoting the phrases from Guanzi,it also showed three books for govening,Qunshuzhiyao,Tongdian,Yilin,which consisted of classical phrases from Guanzi.Qingzhong theory was paid more attention to.This not only showed that Liuyan put Qingzhong theory into practice for solving court financial crisis,and also showed the schoolers at that time had a deep understanding for currency theory in Guanzi with the development of commodity economy.During this period,an important result of Guanzi-accepted is Guanzi Note writtened by Yin Zhizhang.In Guanzi Mote,Yin Marked characters in pronunciation,interpretered characters and sentences and context in meaning,and gave explanation to Titles,which laid a foundation on noting Guanzi for future generations.Impacted by the Yi jing tide,Liu Zongyuan set forth his viewpoint that the point about Siwei in Guanzi waw not correct.ChapterⅤwas about the discussion for Guanzi-accepted during Song Dynasty.In the Guanzi-accepted history, following the revival of Tang Dynasty,Song Dynasty moved toward prosperity.Ligou gave further explanation and theory perfect on Qingzhong theory in his books.Wang Anshi actively learned from Qingzhong theory to raise revenue for the government from a point that"conduct of public affairs is financial management,financial management is the so-called justice".In Tang Dynasty,Lu Zhi and Bai Juyi were against the form of currency taxation.Similar to this reverse Guanzi-accepted,Fan Zhongyan expressed his criticism to monopoly characteristic in Qingzhong theory.Yang Chen brought up a point that Wangdao and Badao were common by virtue of praising contributions of respecting emperor and driving minorities out done by Guan Zhong.Su Shi considered that the secret of ever victorious army was the military establishment with a characteristic of"jane and straight".Su Zhe agreed with Guan Zhong's thought of Bashu.All of this,reflected that schoolers tried to seek theoretical weapons to resolve social contradictions under Song dynasty' s social environmen.After Song dynasty being established in the south,Guan Zi,collated by Zhang Nie,became the prevailing text at that time. Guanzi-accepted,in this period,showed an obvious school characteristics. L(u|¨)Zuqian gave a explanation to Qingzhong theory,Zhu Xi gave a note to Dizizhi.Ye Shi,Huang Zhen,evaluated Guan Zhong,analyse Guanzi in their orthodoxy,and identified Guanzi,respectively.These made up the Scholars' Guanzi-accepted in Southern Song dynasty.The conclusion points out that pre-Song Guanzi-accepted history insisted of four characteristics,that was,being unbalanced,being multi-dimensional,being constrainted and being uniqueness.During this period,the Guanzi-accepted showed that schoolers had a knowledge of cultural values in Guanzi and made sure of Guanzi-accepted values.