Huan Tan Research

Huan tan was a famous scholar during the han dynasty,as famous as his contemporaries liu xin and Yang xiong.However,huan tan’s ideas were too advanced and radical to match the ruling ideas of the emperors of all dynasties.In addition,his works were lost and their influence was gradually weakened in the process of spreading,so they were only known by a few scholars.As the qing scholars attached importance to the collection of lost work,they began to heat up huan tan’s special research.The year of huan tan’s birth and death has been a hot topic in the academic circle.Through sorting out the opinions of scholars in the past,integrating your views and drawing on the supplementary research of modern scholars,I have come to the conclusion that the period of huan tan’s birth and death is no earlier than 42 years ago,and he died in AD 36.As scholar zhang zixia said,if we want to be more precise about the date,we have to rely on more documents.Huan tan’s life is recorded in detail in the book of later han dynasty,but we need to have a further understanding of his record in the period of wang mang.According to the biographies of wang mang and zhai yi,huan tan was in fact highly regarded by wang mang.Before that,they were both officials in the same dynasty.They had similar interests in literature and kept close contacts.As for the record of huan tan in this period,fan ye’s writing is obscure,which needs special attention.Huan tan’s works mainly concentrated in the book "new theory",but unfortunately lost in the process of spreading.The qing people collected the lost works in various series of books.In addition,there was one piece of "ode to the immortal",two pieces of "shu shu" and four fragments,which are now collected in yan kejun’s "all the later han Chinese".Scholars are divided on the time of his death.This paper quoted wang xianqian’s point of view that their loss when after the Ming dynasty.This paper also discusses whether xinlun was dedicated to emperor guangwu.According to the distance between lu ’an city and the mountainous area of huan tan’s ancestral home and the length of the journey,it can be concluded that emperor guangwu actually appreciated huan tan’s talent.Because huan tan did not understand the political intention of guang wu’s use of the fortune,the relationship between the emperor and his officials became increasingly tense,so he had to relegate him and let him return to his hometown.According to this,the time to offer books should be in huan tan after the death of illness,so light wu read "new theory" book,solemnly issued under the "edict." Because the writing materials used at that time were wooden slips,guangwu ordered that they be divided into upper and lower chapters,consisting of 29 chapters,which shaped the typesetting of the "new treatise" we see today.As a sub-book,xin lun is extensive and profound.As a contemporary literary giant,huan tan’s thoughts will be limited by The Times,but his achievements have far exceeded those of his contemporaries.Therefore,this paper makes a detailed analysis of his thoughts from four parts,including his philosophical thoughts,political thoughts,literary thoughts and music thoughts,in order to make a more comprehensive presentation of huan tan’s thoughts.