Tang Dynasty "opening Into The Stone By

Emperor Wu in the Han Dynasty carried out a policy of proscribing all non-Confucian schools of thought and espousing Confucianism as the orthodox state ideology. From that time on, Jing (Confucian classics) became the orthodoxy serving for the ruling class of China in the feudal societies. The study of Confucian classics had been dominating the state ideology for more than two thousand of years. As a result, the texts of Confucian classics had always been the official listed textbooks. Governments of the past dynasties engraved Shijng (Confucian classics engraved on the stone tablets) in great efforts. The phenomenon of engraving Shjing is worth us giving an eye on it.This dissertation has chosen the Kaicheng Shijing of the Tang Dynasty as its study object, trying to unearth the causes and the background for the motion of engraving Shijing. Then it revived the engraving process and revealed the state of preservation of them. Furthermore, this dissertation investigated the clout of Shijing in the history of ideas and culture,of the calligraphy and of the typography.