The "peace" Political And Ideological Study

Taiping Jing is key materials for the study of the political thought and historical value of the Daoism in early period. In the Mid 20th Century, the idea of "taiping" had become one of the hotspot in learning, and the debate was focused on its political attribute. However, so far there has been no monograph on the political thought of Taiping Jing. This paper attempts to make a systematic study on the political thought system of Taiping Jing, put forward this author's own view on the political attributes, political function and historical value of Taiping Jing, in the hope of making contributions to the study of China ancient political thoughts and early Daoist thought, with the reference of the approaches and achievements of related disciplines and studies, and from the way for political interpretation and the system of demonstration, political symbols and core value system, the frame and main political orientation of political doctrine, the theory of ideal political model and the comparison between the political thought in Taiping Jing and the mainstream political culture, etc.The examination on the interpretation way of Taiping Jing is a main aspect and content for the full study on its political thought. In Taiping Jing, religious and political beliefs, religious and political philosophies, natural and political laws, social and political norms were correlated with each other, which existed a relationship of analogy and corroboration. In Taiping Jing, social and political laws were sometimes to be used to explain the reasons in religion, philosophy and nature, such as tian wei jun, di wei chen or tian wei fu, di wei mu; sometimes religious beliefs, philosophical reason and natural phenomena was used to explain social and political laws, such as jun wei tian, chen wei di or fu wei tian, mu wei di, hence, the doctrine, philosophy and nature was used as the theoretical ground for social and political law. Therefore, the religious thought, philosophical thought, social thought and political thought in Taiping Jing were an organic unit, belonging to the category of political thought. Taiping Jing has used many popular political symbols and has been given explanation from Daoism. For example, while demonstrating the common characteristics of various significant social authorities, "tian di jun fu shi were first set to be one whole, against which the moral obligation in which the subjects were set against the emperor, the children against the parent, the disciples against the master, and norms for "zui shang shan zhi ren" were set. While interpreting the political institution and political power, etc. many cultural symbols to mark the superior ruler were used and given its own interpretation. The metaphor of jun and chen was used and given interpretation to mark various political structure, political function and value, to demonstrate, define and regulate the basic relationship between the monarch and the subjects. From the main origin and cultural meaning of these symbols, the core political value of Taiping Jing was identical to that of the mainstream political culture.Though it seems that the materials discoursing political thoughts in Taiping Jing are scattered, fragmental, out of order, it is not difficult to find that its political thought was rather systematic, almost fully answering a series of significant political issues concerned with state power, if we use the analytical method of political science to carefully trim, analyze, interpret the concerned materials. The systematism in content, integrality in structure and philosophicity in demonstration of the political thought of Taiping Jing was not inferior to that of the works of many thinkers. From its basic frame for political doctrine, the institutional design of Taiping Jing was matchable to that of imperialism.The main historical contribution of Taiping Jing was to the unfair social reality, which converged the traditional cultural resources to enhance "taiping" to the intrinsic attribute of Dao and the "Great Classic and Great Law" of human society, and put forward the ideal political model of "tian xia taiping". To extol "taiping' was also the most critical and most impressive part of this book. Nevertheless, from the point view of usage and thinking system, the core meaning of "taiping" was the normal law of Tian Di, that had meaning of the orientation of the superior-inferior structure, the orientation of the object-subject function and the orientation of the noble-mean value, corresponding to the fact that the political taiping realm of "dao" and "taiping" was in fact the harmonious and orderly condition of monarchy, hierarchy and patriarchy, and the only way to realize the political ideal was "wang zhi taiping". Therefore, the political thought of Taiping Jing is in fact the Daoist expression for the mainstream political culture at that time.