Fate And Trend: The Political Diversion Of The Scholars At The End Of The Eastern Han Dynasty

Scholars have been actively and consciously involved in the politics,They shows their concern to the obligation sand missions of working for the benefit of the nation. During the end of the Eastern Han dynasty,in order to make right existing evils, they launched a series of social rescuing activities,but have no effort. In the disaster of Party Forbid,eunuch group cruelly suppressed the scholars,and the scholars changed the mind of the Confucianism. Facing the disorderly society reality,the scholars paid close attention to selfhood,attached great importance to self-respect and tried to amuse themselves from supporting the Han dynasty,and the scholars have some politicians choose from single to multiple. Suffering repeated attach,the scholars deviated from the central government,they became the most important forces which destroyed the Eastern Han dynasty thoroughly. They choose a tactful way to continue their struggle,not only In order to realize their life aspirations and goals,but also the shadow of the disaster of Party Forbid,the scholars have shown extremely cautious and careful attitude in politics choose after the disaster of Party Forbid.This paper is to discuss the performance of scholars in the end of the Eastern Han dynasty. Analyzes their political behavior from them different life choice,or"official career"or"retire". And to analyze their attitudes towards the Eastern Han dynasty and the changes in the choose warlord mentality through their performance in the warlord period.The scholars made different decisions under such political environment. Someone became the servants and the tool for the eunuchs,someone kept silence and kept out of trouble,someone retired from the world to avoid the political prosecution,etc. Different choice means different strategy that the scholars had been taken under the high-handed policy,which has some enlightenment for the later generations. Have a strong consciousness of social responsibility. And it have deeply influenced by the political. So the scholars really felt disappointment and did not give it up in the political.On the other hand, through the"official career"or"retire"to analyzes the relations about the choose of the scholars and the political,to explain the passivity of their choice,and the political dependence.Finally,to discusses the influence by the"three establishments"thought about the choose of the scholars,in depth,the inclination of the intellectuals life value in the end of the Eastern Han dynasty.