Chronicles Of Characters With Han Wei Common Practice Of Character Appreciation

Chronicles of Characters is a Zibu science works written by LiuShao in Wei of the Three Kingdoms period. The official selection system in Han and Wei Dynasties impels the character appreciation in vogue. With the lapse of time,there formed some methods of character appreciation. Chronicles of Characters written by LiuShao is a summary of the operation by identifying the human relations theory and summarizes the theory of talent and the neutralization theory.The Introduction of the thesis introduces LiuShao with his Chronicles of Characters is based on the document of "The Records of Three Kingdoms".Chronicles of Characters has many versions and the scholars have studied this work from many respects.So the part 2 of the Introduction combs the versions and the current research.Chapter one states the historical background of Chronicles of Characters from two aspects. Chronicles of Characters is the product of the character appreciation in vogue.It has direct relationship with the evolution of Han Wei Chaju.Besides, Qingyi at the end of the Han Dynasty promotes the character appreciation and It becomes the reality basement of its creation.Chapter two takes Chronicles of Characters as the main body to states the talent theory and the the neutralization theory and there formed different methods talent classification and character appreciation. It shows unique theoretical characteristics which is the application category and draws lessons from the theory of Yin and Yang five elements. We have to pay attention to that Identifying talent is very complicated and It is very hard to identify.Chapter three discusses the influence of Chronicles of Characters to the common practice of tasting characters. Chronicles of Characters lay stress on the talent and It tastes characters by watching talking.It admires the theory of Dao.These all have influence on Wei Jin talk.The nature,nameless,smell that talked in the neutralization theory becomes the main Metaphysical proposition.Obviously,Chronicles of Characters is the theoretical foundation of the Wei Jin Metaphysics.