The Relationship Between The Intellectuals Ethos In The Earlier Eastern Han Dynasty And The Ideas And Creation Of Ban Gu

Under the rational and conscious intellectuals Ethos background in the earlier Eastern Han Dynasty, the intellectuals often displayed very complicated and diverse spiritual styles. Ban Gu, the intellectual and scholar of that time, although lived in the world as a traditional Confucian intellectuals on the surface, but he had the ideas of securing the life and keeping the fame influenced by the Confucianism and the Taoism, which displayed in his life idea and the work creation. Therefore, Ban Gu has two sides of his sipirit. This article is trying to analysis the intellctuais ethos in earlier Eastern Han Dynasty, inspect the two sides soul of Gu Ban, and discover the indeep intrinsic reasons how Ban Gu developed his life ideas and the work styles.The main text altogether is divided three chapters:The first chapter inspects the reason and the spiritual characteristics of the life idea that secure the life and keep the fame, This life idea of Ban Gu inherited from his family spirit and formed by the political background. Looking from the aspect of the family spirit, the family of Ban achieved political successs based on the Confucianist benevolence, and also kept their lives guided by the Taoism ideas; As for the real political backgrounds, Ban Gu was born in a intellctual family, longing for the political achievement, however, he had to adjust the life strategy in the course of seeking academic honor in the hard and dangerous way of the world, deducted the ideas of securing the life and keeping the fame influenced by the Confucian and the Taoism. This life idea, characterised with the Confucianist as the representation and the Taoism as the belief in his spiritual aspects, marks the intellectuals'spiritual transformation from social-construction to the self-construction.The second chapter studies the prose poem creation of Ban Gu and both sides in his soul. Liangdu FU, broad and elegant, recounts Han kingdom benevolence, and positive praises the Confucianist WangDao ideas, and supports the ideas of national government unification, expresses the Confucian intellectuals quality of own. However, compared with his praise Han Dynasty and respecting Confucianism in Liangdu FU. Ban Gu integrated the Confucianism and the Taoism, or back into his own emotional world in Youtong Fu and other prose poems creation which expresses the feelings and wills, obviously states the life-ideas that secure the life and keep the fame. As a famous prose poems writer in earlier Eastern Han Dynasty, his prose poems creation manifests the both sides of his soul, which guided to the basic trends of the intellctuals literature creation in Mid-Later of Eastern Han Dynasty.The third chapter inspects the different styles between Han Shu and Shi Ji. Han Shu is rational and detailed, but Shi Ji is grieved and significant. Ban Gu inherited classical academic background, and read many ancient books, knew different philosopher, understood the covered meaning of ancient books, therefore, maintained the academic rational spirit can in the creation of Han Shu. On the other hand, Ban Gu carried out the life ideas that secure the life and keep the fame, agreed the classical religious doctrine of Confucian that die heros's death, therefore, the sentence that do not praise a hero's death that in Han Shu reflects the hidden spiritual essence of Ban Gu from Taoism. The two different historical styles displayed by Shi Ji and Han Shu, not only embodys the individual spirits of Ban Gu and Si Maqian, but also transmits to the evolution advancement two of the intellctuals ethos from the western Han to the eastern Han.Through the inspection and the analysis above, we try to reject the opinions of praise Shi Ji and critics Han Shu or praise Si Maqian and critics Ban Gu, which are popular in historical as well as the current academic circles. We reback historical persons in the real historical background, make the corresponding assessments to historical persons by the historical coordinates, finally, we will achieve the objective and full assessment to Ban Gu and his works.