The Silk Book Yellow Emperor’s Four Canons And Literature Thought In The Early Han Dynasty

Huang-lao school is a quite important school of thought in intellectual history of pre-Qin period, however, most literatures concerning Huang-lao school have damaged and can not be verifiable. Not only because the difficult tracing, the Confucianism rose as the main state ideology during the time of Emperor Wudi in the Western Han Dynasty as well leads to inadequate research on Huang-lao school. Fortunately, the discovery of silk book at Han Dynasty tomb at Mangwangdui in Changsha in 1970 s improves the research atmosphere.Academia shows extreme enthusiasm on a silk book that Yellow Emperor’s Four Canons and researches involving philology, academic schools, ideological and political have been carried out. On the contrary, a few reports refer to its literary value although some studies mention the value. The research on literary value of the yellow emperor four classics, however, is insufficient. Considering that, the dissertation intends to inspect it by analyzing literatures of contemporaneous as well as late period, comparing the ideology and literary thoughts, in order to explore the influence of the yellow emperor four classics on the literature thought in the beginning of Han Dynasty and later.The dissertation is consisted of three sections, including introduction, main body and conclusion.The first chapter that introduction clarifies significance of the topic and reviews the research status of Huang-lao school, the yellow emperor four classics and relating literary ideology. Huang-Lao school in the fields of literature, philosophy, history, science and others have been researched multi-level before, and Book "The silk Book Yellow Emperor’s Four Canons " in contact with the field of literature and literary Early Han Thought aspect yet to be excavated, while also tries to explore some causes of later literary thought by the relevant principles of Taoism philosophy of science.The second chapter is overview section of Book "The silk Book Yellow Emperor’s Four Canons" and Taoism Studies. Book "The silk Book Yellow Emperor’s Four Canons" is a master work of Elder Huang School, this section describes the main political thought, literary thought ideological content and silk manuscripts Taoism Studies "The silk Book Yellow Emperor’s Four Canons" embodied. The important contents of two things: First, the theoretical basis of the study were summarized Huang-lao discussed; Second, Book " The silk Book Yellow Emperor’s Four Canons " as the main representative of the ideological content Qin literature presented have been discussed.The third chapter is the Book "The silk Book Yellow Emperor’s Four Canons" Taoism and science reflected in the literature of the early Han Dynasty. In the early Han Dynasty literary works, such as "Xin Yu", "Xin Shu", "Han Shi Wai Zhuan", "Qi Fa", " Huai Nan Zi " and other works, Huang-Lao school have had a penetration and influence some of its content. Although in these works, their respective ideological content and ideological orientation are not the same, to promote Taoism Daoism and Miscellaneous Eclectics thought-based, "Aimed near Lao-tzu"(That is similar to the ideas of Lao-tzu) book " Huai Nan Zi ", but also to promote the Confucian Confucianism thinking mainly of works such as "Xin Yu", "Han Shi Wai Zhuan" and other works. Although there are some ideological differences between each other, which are specific to the Huang-Lao school content and way of thinking has to absorb and learn. In terms of literary influence, Book "The silk Book Yellow Emperor’s Four Canons" to "Tao" and the "Fa" as highest theoretical basis. In the early Han Dynasty literary works appeared on the original relationship between the source of Dao and the six classics, Dao and "say", " speech" of the exposition, which played a role in the later Taoist literature as original pilot and guidelines. Researchers of Huang-Lao school transform the Laozi’s novel concept, the "Dao" is placed between heaven and earth, or treat with the universe as "Dao", to make them been understood by humans as entities, given the "Dao" reality connotation. This encompasses had an impact on the early Han Dynasty literary contains universe, overviews universe of artistic pursuit. In addition, some of the early Han Dynasty literary works of philosophy and literature also spread Huang-Lao philosophy, political thought process through literary ideas.In the conclusion, the article summarizes the Book "The silk Book Yellow Emperor’s Four Canons" ideological content and Taoism school, reflects the multiple effects to Book "The silk Book Yellow Emperor’s Four Canons" as represent of the Taoism school until the early Han Dynasty literature.