The Early Tang Dynasty Agricultural Economics Ethics Thought

Tang Dynasty, the further development period of the Chinese feudal society, was known as the age of feudal society by the historian. It is after the Han Wei and before the Song and Yuan Dynasties, some scholars said it represented the end of the Chinese "Middle Ages" and the start of the "modern" Chinese. In the nearly 300 years'development history of the Tang Dynasty, China's political system, social organization, economy and idea, religion and the arts and other fields of life have had the extensive and profound changes, and became the world's most civilized and prosperous empire at that time. Especially the early "Governance of Zhen Guan" was praised by future generations. It is frequent to study the article in the Tang Dynasty, which mainly related to political, legal, commodity economy, religion and other aspects, on the early period of Tang Dynasty, the study is mostly related to political, there is little results in the study of economy especially agricultural economy in the early Tang Dynasty from Ethics perspective, which left a certain amount of space for the studies of this article. In this article, the investigation of the agricultural economy ethics of the early Tang, mainly from the following aspects:The first part focuses on the analysis of relations between the economic thought and ethical thought,clarifying the relations between them are the basis for studying the Tang preliminary agricultural economy ethics. Economic activities of human society are the most important livelihood activity, which creates the material wealth of society, also provides the prerequisite for the creation of the spiritual wealth of the society. Economic activities are the foundation of human existence, on which the whole building of human civilization are set up. However, the economic activity of mankind must follow the Code of Ethics in order to be a virtuous circle of development and health. Therefore, the relationship between economic and ethics is just as the foundation and the superstructure , economic development is the foundation and premise of promoting the moral construction, in reverse, ethical and moral construction is the motivity and strong support of economic development. Ethics moral reconstruction is the economic development internal force and the powerful safeguard. Clarify the relationship between the two points is the theoretical basis of studying the agricultural economy and economic in the prophase of Tang Dynasty. The rulers of Tang Dynasty realize that if can't devote major efforts to developing the agricultural economy, it is difficult to educate the public and the degree of social civilization will be stalled; But without ethics education, the development of agricultural, economic will be hampered because of disorder, so the economic development and ethics, the two of which are complementary to each other from the farmer's war in the telophase of Sui Dynasty.The second part is the early Tang Dynasty's idea of the agricultural economy。Firstly, it is an analysis of the basic idea of the early Tang Dynasty philosophy of the agricultural economy. Tang rulers inherited Confucian doctrine, they believe the theory of the King and they think everyone's nature was good at birth. The rulers take this idea into their controlling of the country. Secondly, it made the idea that people being the root of the nation as the value orientation of the early Tang Dynasty's agricultural economy ethics, it is also the core of agriculture production. The Tang Dynasty ruling clique insisted on loving their people, playing their people at a high place, treasuring their people, enriching their people when they were developing their agriculture in order to reach the political goal of Kingcraft. Thirdly, it excavates the ethics in the process of the development of agriculture and economy in the early Tang Dynasty. For instance, the productive viewpoint of enriching the country and civilizing the people, the economy principle showing fairness of no poor, human beings in harmony with the laws of nature and so on. Meanwhile, it discusses the measures for improving the development of agriculture economy and environment, involving officials electing, the solving of land issues, the tax and levy, being with the nature and so on. All these measures above have special ethical implications. It provides strong support on economic and agriculture development.The third part is a modern inspiration originates in the Tang preliminary agricultural economy ethics. Agricultural economy Ethics of the early Tang Dynasty are thought of agriculture as the mainstay , bringing from the economic recovery and reform process . Now China's rural areas are experiencing a great change, so studying the agricultural economy ethics of the early Tang can provide a useful consulting and reference of traditional ethical and cultural, for the development of the socialist agricultural economy and building a new socialist countryside.