Literary thought of Han dynasty

The literary thought of Han Dynasty is mainly Confucianism.

Culture and science in the Han Dynasty were extremely active, and foreign exchange was of great significance. The Han Dynasty further established the national culture of the Han nationality, and the Confucian culture respected by the Western Han Dynasty became the mainstream culture of the Central Plains Dynasty and East Asia at that time and later.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed hundreds of schools, and Confucianism became the ruling ideology of China for thousands of years. He first set up imperial academy in Chang 'an, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and began to study Confucian classics. During the reign of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were as many as 30,000 students in imperial academy.

When the People's Republic of China was founded in the Han Dynasty, the law of inaction was adopted, and the Taoist thought of Huang Lao was the main idea in the Wenjing period, supplemented by Confucianism and law as the guiding ideology of the legal system. It not only emphasizes inaction, but also attaches importance to the role of courtesy and morality. It not only recognizes the importance of law, but also insists on simplifying the law and serving the people. .

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the rulers established the legal guiding ideology of Confucianism as the orthodox thought, supplemented by legalists, and its center was "morality as the main punishment", that is, moral education was first used, and then punishment was imposed. This way of governing the country with both rigidity and softness became the guiding ideology of the legal system of the Han Dynasty after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Liang Wudi carried out Dong Zhongshu's proposal, deposed a hundred schools of thought, and respected the Six Classics exclusively, so Confucianism gained the exclusive status. So, Dr. Jason Wu's disciples and Confucian scholars started their summer vacation at this time. It is no longer the time for doctors and Confucians to take part in real politics.

In historiography, Sima Qian's Historical Records is the first biographical general history in China, the first of the twenty-four histories, and provides a standard for the compilation of official history in the next two thousand years.

The Han government set up Yuefu to collect folk poems, which is Yuefu poetry. Later generations collected many Yuefu poems in Yuefu Poems, Nineteen Ancient Poems and Yutai New Poems, and the long narrative poem Peacock Flying Southeast was also written in the late Han Dynasty. Fu is a new literary genre, and Sima Xiangru's Zi Xufu, Shang and Zhang Heng's Erjing Fu are all famous literary works.

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This thought has a great influence on the legislation of later generations. Xuan Di, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, once famously said: "The Han family has its own system, and its system is based on hegemony." This is an incisive exposition of this idea.

Many documents and books destroyed by Qin Shihuang's burning books and burying Confucianism have been reproduced through the unremitting efforts and excavation records of Han scholars, including the ancient books of the Five Classics, which were also excavated and sorted out at this time. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted the opinions of Dong Zhongshu, Gong and others, Confucian classics became the academic mainstream.

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