Discussion On The Contradictory Personality And Merits Of Emperor Wu Of Han Dynasty

Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, LiuChe,was the fifth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty.He was a significant emperor in the ancient history of China,who played a vital role in the whole history of China. Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty has distinct personality traits.He seemed simple while resourceful, had great talent and bold vision but broke the pale, he was unassertive while arbitrary, amorous while ruthless.His affection was doped with many political factors and was inclined to power when the emperor's authority conflicted with his own feelings. At this time, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty was ruthless and offish.The contradictory characteristics of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty is mainly ascribed to the following three factors: Era background, family environment and his own special experience. Among them,the era of contradiction,Political predicament and economic prosperity form bright contrast,is the objective cause to his conflict character ; the particularity of the family environment for example the family environment of sovereign sex, closeness and extreme parasitic, status level sex and his relatives's personal traits, for example, grandmother DouShi,father LiuQi,mother Mrs.Wang were the direct factors, In addition to ShuZi emperor made from prince, and take the throne at sixteen, this special personal experience is its character formed the inner basis.The regime was ruled by Huang Lao's ideology in the early years of Han Dynasty. But along with the social economy development and the maintenance of the situation of feudal ruling order and promoting its cctv1 the needs of the military's foreign policy, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty created a new ruling strategy-adopting both benevolent politics and draconian laws. It combined rule of virtue raised by Confucian with rule of punishment raised by Legalists. Here, espect for the outside factors of the political and economic situation, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty's inner character factors such as his great talent and bold vision, his rebellious character, his shirt affectionate, his totalitarian idea, etc., are the rule of the important reasons for the rise of philosophy.In 50 years, given the Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty ,his lifetime had many merits and also had many negligence, most historians have different opinions about his merits and negligence. Here, the author not to do the objective evaluation for Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty , but a simply based on his character factors to analyze the causes of the formation of the complicated situation. Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty had many favorable personality traits for his merits, such as his great talent and bold vision, his broad mind, forge ahead, determination and so on. In these personality traits and centralization, under the guidance of his thoughts, he unify politics, strengthened Emperor's authority, economic prosperity, created a new ruling strategy-adopting both benevolent politics and draconian laws, open boundary extension soil, enlightenment universal edge. These excellent personality factors are the reasons for Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty's extraordinary achievement. But there is some disadvantage factors in his disposition factor: Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty despotic multi-desires that causes he pursues maximum limit eternal of authority and pursues the extreme enjoy of life; Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty's natural disposition cruel and unfeeling that causes he advocate the draconian laws of the legalist school and he entrusts with heavy responsibility the cool government official and energetically the imperial edict prison; Until old age of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, his heart narrow and sensitive over suspicious, these disposition factors directly bring the Witchcraft trials.