The Early Eastern Han Dynasty Confucian Thought And Political Practice

The early poriod of the Emperor Dong Han Dynasty concluds the periods of the Emperor Guang Wu , the Emperor Ming , the Emperor Zhang.Classics makse further progress on the basis of the Xi Han Dynasty. A goups of famious scholars and imporant classics appear.However, political reality became the basical tone of new power ,and changed the political aggressiveness and idealism. The Confucian studied classics on their purpose in order to stenghen the dominant position of classics, such as coursties and order damaged by nobles ,national problem and national etiquette construction and so on ,which favorablely coped with the nervous situition between Politic and Classics.Fherfore,classics were respected and confirmed.The knowledge of Chen-Wei was regarded as the highest learning, whitch had radical impact on the whole politics and society, it was characteristic of monarch-thone, nomination of high-grade officials,orthodox of power ,national etiquette, integration of classics and so forth. Imperial belief caused the division of classics groups : the conservative common studies and the changed common studies.But the changed common studies meant well-off official career.The popularity of Chen Wei produced profound ifluence on politics and academic.The White Tigher Coherent argumentation of Classics was a kind of coherent value system builted by ruler and shcolars ,which underpined three guiding principles.lt resolved the difference and contradiction of studying Classics to some extent.What was more ,it procided practicable coherent moral belief and standard for the whole society,whitch was transferred to the folk society by four ways. active moral life and social custom reflected by cultural documents and portray-stone was the evident evidence.