| Yelv Chucai(1190—1244),his another name is Jin Qing,Zhan Ran Jushi.He was an outstanding minority politician in the 13th century.As a descendant of the royal family of Khitan people,he grew up in Central Plain,where he stayed with Genghis Khan for ten years at the turn of the Jin and Yuan dynasties,and eventually became an important aide to?gedei Khan,and made outstanding contributions to the preservation and development of the civilization in the central plains and many areas of the north square,as well as to the hanization and development of the Mongol yuan regime.Yelv Chucai’s time and experience were extraordinary.Genghis Khan’s creation of great Mongolia had a significant and far-reaching impact on the development of word history.The Chinese civilization has a long history,and the Chinese nation has a long life.After the division of Liao,Song,Xia and Jin dynasties,China has come to a new round of cultural integration.The 300-year family transformation from Yelv Bei to Yelv Lv clearly shows the process of sinicization and historical choice of the Qidan royal family.He has been immersed in the traditional Chinese culture since he was a child,and he has been facing some historical changes before.Yelv Chucai’s scholarship embodies the characteristics of the combination of broad and professional and the equal emphasis on Taoism and utensils.From the perspective of academic origin,Chucai’s scholarship is mainly influenced by four aspects:family studies from Yelvbei,the eighth ancestor,to Yelvlv,the father,and Yang’At that time,all kinds of learning spread in the north.In terms of knowledge and skills,Chucai has a wide range of books and professional expertise.He is not only familiar with astronomy,geography,history,natural resources,medicine,etiquette and many other fields of knowledge,especially good at numbers,financial management and language articles,which reflects his academic tendency of being practical and practical.In terms of artistic cultivation,Chucai’s poetry creation is unique,and is known as"the initiative of a generation of CI ministers";his articles are both parallel and scattered,skillful and old-fashioned;his calligraphy is vigorous and resolute;his playing the Guqin is full of emotion and reason,and his skills are superior;he can even catch the art breath everywhere in his life,so as to cope with the strong impact of political struggle on his heart.In terms of ideological belief,Chucai is not only a standard confucian,but also a devout Buddhist.At the same time,he has an in-depth study and understanding of Taoist classics.He goes to and from three religions,floods hundreds of schools,cultivates a strong spiritual force,and provides a solid ideological guarantee for the establishment of outstanding achievements.Yelv Chucai’s participation in the administration of state affairs has gone through four periods:Genghis Khan,dragging thunder to supervise the country,Ogodei Khan and Naimazhen post system.He was appreciated by Genghis Khan for his outstanding ability and gradually became the core decision-making level of the Mongolian Empire.According to the Han law of the Central Plains,he planned ten strategies of governing the country,including people’s livelihood,economy,politics,and legal system.He seized the historical opportunity of broad Taiwan and decentralization,and pushed forward the reform with extraordinary courage.On the practical level,he advised to issue amnesty,correct the barbaric proposal,stop the policy of slaughtering the city,try to stabilize the fleeing people,and make every effort to protect the people’s lives;he advocated to organize households,resist the spread of nomadism,define the tax quota,insist on recuperation,and do everything possible to restore the economy of the central plains;he proposed the plan of establishing zhengshuo,establishing the royal ceremony,creating institutions,restraining the separatist regime,and building the Imperial Palace,and tried to promote politics System reform:starting with specific affairs,we should promote the construction of legal system in many aspects,such as"giving signature and seal,establishing the law of banknote,setting the average output,distributing and delivering".At the level of retreat,he said to the Mongolian rulers,"always talk about the religion of Zhou and Confucius",raised the banner of Confucianism,protected and appointed a group of Chinese scholars,promoted culture and education,opened imperial examinations,searched maps and books,printed classics,and made every effort to restore and develop the culture of the Central Plains.He proposed the view of"the Chinese,the foreigners and the mixed people"and advocated the integration and development of all ethnic groups.He insisted on the policy of religious tolerance and advocated the three religions in parallel We should carry forward the differentiation between the right and the evil,restrain Quanzhen and support orthodox Buddhism,express the strong anti war thought,take the opportunity to offer the strategy of not fighting but bending the people,guide the Mongolian regime to open the great country diplomacy of the ten thousand states of Concorde,and take the strategy of combining the hard and the soft.Due to the great difference between the old Mongolian system and the Central Plains system,the reform of Chu timber suffered a great setback,but its reform effect had already appeared at that time,especially had a significant and far-reaching impact on the full implementation of Han law in Kublai Khan’s period.In a word,Yelv Chucai’s scholarship is closely related to the administration of politics.His political thoughts and activities fully reflect the practical exploration of the Central Plains scholar bureaucrats in governing the world empire under the background of multi-cultural integration.He injected benevolence,rationality,harmony,good order and other ideological factors into the Mongolian Yuan Regime,which highly advocates force,and demonstrated the value orientation and unique charm of Chinese cultural governance,which is conducive to the promotion of Chinese cultural governance Chinese excellent traditional culture is of great significance. |