Research On Northern Qi Dynasty And Scholars’ Thought

There are two QI states separately in China’s south and north during theSouthern and Northern Dynasties time: one was established by Daocheng Xiao inJiankang in AD479, historically called “Southern Qi Dynasty”; the other wasestablished by Yang Gao in Yecheng in AD550, historically called “Northern QiDynasty”. Northern Qi Dynasty was destroyed by the Northern Zhou Dynasty in AD577and only existed for27years. Northern Qi Dynasty was a short-lived state in thelate Northern Dynasties and was also one of the transition countries from the Wei, Jin,and North and South dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties. It played an importanthistorical status and had a certain significance on studying the social process from theSouthern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties.Scholars have a special status in the Chinese traditional culture. What academiccircles said "the scholar" is roughly equivalent to what today’s people say“intellectuals”. But due to different academic centers in ancient and modern times,ancient scholars refer to the social knowledge-based groups. As for the intellectualswho studied astronomical calendar, medicine, religion and other aspects of thespecialized knowledge usually have a special term. So the ancient scholars andintellectuals in this paper mainly refers to the group who owns social knowledge, andare narrow and sanctified traditional intellectualsThe research about the scholars’ thought is very important for academia. In theChinese history, not only does the material civilization develop, but also the mentalcivilization develops. In the all, the people’s thought is motive force to the changeof society. In the Chinese society, the scholars’ thought is centrum of the people’sthought. we can find the influence of the scholars’ thought between the upper-classdignitary and the lower-class poor people. So if you want to study a era, you mustlearn the scholars’ thought in the era.In Northern Qi Dynasty, there are three types in the scholars’ thought. The firsttype mainly talked by WeiShou——a government officer. This type has main two characters:on the one hand,it inherits the traditional official ideology, advertises theprincipal of Confucianism and the political mysticism. meanwhile, pronouncing thesovereign descends the world. On the other hand, it also takes more attention to thepersonal and family life. The second type is mainly talked by Liuzhou, the maincontent of this type is Confucianism supplementing Taoism, Yin-Yang School andlegalism.the third type is mainly talked by Yanzhitui. Although this type doesn’tfight against the official ideology.it pays more attention to the family and theindividual.With three types,the intellectuals’ thought have the common characters:particularly speaking, they all obey the traditional offical ideology,following theprinciple of the Confucianism. But they don’t belong to the pure Confucians, they areinfluenced by the Taoism and other folk religion. the first type is more orthodox;the second is middle; the third is beyond the orthodox. The main cause making somany differences is the different foothold and the different understandingabout people’ s life.