Researches On Thought Origin Between Huangdi Book And Jianbo Laozi

The ideological origins of "Huangdi Book" and "Laozi " has been the question the scholars have to deal with, who concerns the "Huangdi Book". In the academic field, considerable achievements have been made in the correlational research. However, there are still obvious inadequacies, mainly expressed as follows, concept confusion exists, the importance of bamboo slip edition and silk edition of "Laozi" unearthed has not been stressed yet, the systematic and coherent organization is lacked. Most importantly, the subject is still attached to the others research of the "Huangdi Book" and can't get its absolute status.In view of this, this thesis compares the thoughts of theunearthed "Huangdi Book" with which of the bamboo slip edition edition of "Laozi" and the silk edition of "Laozi", to seek to reveal the ideological origins of the "Huangdi Book" and the unearthed "Laozi" by independent, systematic organization.Before discussing the ideological origins, I will study the related issues of the unearthed document itself.On the "Huangdi Books", I think that the first four pieces of lost ancient books of the B volume of "Laozi" unearthed in the Mawangdui Tomb III - "Jingfa", "Jing", "Cheng" and "Dao-yuan", contain the similar thoughts. Therefore, they can be called "Huangdi Books". As the second piece, its name should be "10-Jing", neither "16-Jing" nor "10-Jing". From the thought content of "Huangdi Book" itself, its subject should originate in the early and middle Warring States Period. However, the formation of this master work of Huang-Lao thoughts, which possessed strong Chu regional culture characteristic, owed to the continuing enrichment of the ancient scholars from the late Spring and Autumn period to the foundation of Western Han Dynasty. The unearthed "Huangdi Book" also injected new vitality to the Huang-Lao Thoughts.With regard to the silk edition of "Laozi", this thesis mainly discusses its transcription time from the taboo perspective. I think that the taboo system has been implemented since since the foudation of the Western Han Dynasty. In other words, the subjects have had to avoid the name of the emperor since he ascended the throne, and which extended to his death. The B edition of silk manuscript "Laozi" avoided "Bang", which was one word of the name of Hangaozu Liu Bang, but it didn't avoid "Ying" and "Heng", the former was one word of Hanhuidi Liu Ying's name and the latter is Hanwendi Liu Heng's. From the above discussion, it is clear that the B edition of "Laozi" should be transcribed during the Liu Bang Reign. The "Huangdi Book" was transcribed simultaneously, which was also copied during the Liu Bang Reign. This also shows that the "Huangdi Book" is unlikely to originate in the Early Han Dynasty.The "Huangdi Book" has a profound ideological origins with the bamboo slips "Laozi". "Dao" is the basic and core concept of "Laozi". The "Dao" theory of "Laozi" can be divided into three parts: life theorylife, political theory and cosmology, among which the political theory (Emperor Rule Theory) is the core. All the above theories are inherited and developed by the "Huangdi Book".On the side of life theory, the "Huangdi Book" and the "Laozi" both emphasized cultivation by "Dao". In particular, they advocated silence, frugality, justice, follow, wisdom, and so on. With the exception of stressing "there is no success without struggle" on the basis of inheriting the silence theory of the "Laozi", other contents of the "Huangdi Book" are the same with the "Laozi".The political theory is the core of the "Huangdi Book" and the "Laozi" theory. It can be divided into three parts: regulating families, administering a country, and unifying the whole world.As for the theory of regulating famililes, there's no discussion in the "Laozi". The "Huangdi Book" required to correctly deal with the three relationships between father and son, husband and wife, father and brother, in order to assure national long period of order and stability. This is the first important development the "Huangdi Book" made on the political theory of the "Laozi".As for the theory of administering a country, the "Laozi advocated inaction, the specific program of administrating a country is from "Inaction" to "Exertion." The "Huangdi Book" also advocated "Inaction" rule, but the rulet program is "Action" to "Inaction" to "Exertion", which means that the emperor's inaction is based on the establishment of the punishment name and law. This is the second development the "Huangdi Book" made on the political theory of the "Laozi". In the specific administration measures, both of them are basically the same. However, in the pursuit of political ideals, the "Laozi" pursue the status of "a small county with a small population", the "Huangdi Book" called for achieving "universal unity" according to the times. This is the third important development the "Huangdi Book" made on the political theory of the "Laozi". Moreover, the "Huangdi Book" claimed that the emperor should correctly deal with the relationship with the subjects to consolidating the rule, which the "Laozi" didn't touch on.As for the theory of unifying the whole world, "Laozi" still advocated taking the world by the "Dao" and "Inaction". The "Huangdi Book" also advocated taking the world by the "Dao", but which clearly claimed take the world by "Exertion". Specifically, it claimed to take the world by the rule technique, war, combination of civil and military, which is the result of "Huangdi Book" inheriting and developing the "Laozi" theory from the changed background.In respect to the cosmology, both of the "Huangdi Book" and "Laozi" argued that "Dao" is the origin of the universe, characterized by the first world, virtual, invisible, obscure, unknown, independent, naturally, misted and blurred and micro. At the same time, the "Dao" played a role in nourishing all living by ".harmony". Meanwhile, the "Laozi" only expressed the rule by the "Dao" which had multiple roles. But the "Huangdi Book" is not the case. In addition to the "Dao", it introduced "constant", "number", "reason", "order", "inspection" to expound the rule.In addition to closely related ideologically, the "Huangdi Book" and "Laozi" are inseparable in the expression forms of language and argument logics, and so on.In respect to the rhyme, the Yangdongtongyun appeared in the bamboo slip "Laozi" one time, the silk edition "Laozi" six times, the "Huangdi Book" twenty-eight times. The Gengzhenheyun appeared in the bamboo one time, the silk edition "Laozi" two times, the "Huangdi Book" nineteen times. The "Huangdi Book" totally inherited the "Laozi" in the argument logics of "knowing human affairs by reasoning natural law"Therefore, "Huangdi Book" belongs to the work of Huang-Lao School. It's the achievement of Huang-Lao school made according to the new requirements of the times by inheriting and developing the "Laozi" theory. It is likely to become the theory outline of Huang-Lao Inaction Governance in the Early Western Han Dynasty, such as Xinyu, etc..