Eastern Han Dynasty Imperial College Too Student Movement

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Confucian classics was encouraged to study by the ruling class. Spreading widely through politics, education and protocal, Confucianism consolidated its position as the orthodox ideas of feudalism and influenced custom and people's habits of behavior deeply. In the course of it, the Imperial College played an important role. As the supreme institution of higher lerning built by the government, the Imperial College made a great contribution not only to the spreading of Confucianism, but to the social life.During the early days of the Eastern Han Dynasty, everything that had been previously left undone was to be undertaken to do, and the social order need to be resumed. Confucianism, which had been promoted for about one hundred years, laid the ideaological ideal for the foundation of the Imperial College of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The foundation of the Imperial College of the Western Han Dynasty afforded useful lessons for the foundation of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Liu Xiu , the first emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, realized that Confucianiasm was useful for the stability of the country. He encouraged people to study the Confucian classics and built the Imperial College,which trained a lot of qualified personnels for the country. The Confucianism deveploped quickly in this period. Afterwards, sometimes the Imperial College developed prosperously, and sometimes it declined. Its prosperous or decline was the staff of purity of politics.The strict management and high-quality teachers are the guarentee for the quality of teaching. There were strict systems in management and teaching. The Doctor are in the selection of high demands to ensure the quality of teaching. The contents of learning in the Imperial College are Confucian classics. By learning them the students may master the skills to govern the country and form good moral self-cultivation. By studying the Confucian classics students had the persuit of the ideal personality and political ideals. As a meta-Confucian elite education and academic institution, the Imperial College was seen as a symbol of promoting education. The Imperial College participated in some of the important national rituals, which fully demonstrated that it was the status of moralise. That led the community of the formation of advocating etiquette.The Imperial College was established for the purpose to develop a back-up team armed with national Confucian bureaucracy .The system of electing officials was connected tightly with that of training them. Only when the system of election officials was in normal qperation, the development of Imperial College could be normal. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, politics gradually get corrupted, and official career was blocked. The huge gap between ideal and reality, and the strong sense of social responsibility of students prompted them to attempt to influence politics by public opinion. Their efforts eventually ended in failure. When the emperor had lost the spirit of following the verity, Confucianism lost its base of politics completely. The students' movement was brutally crushed, and the Eastern Han government lost the social basis and soon fell. Since then Confucianism declined, and metaphysics rose.The Imperial College trained a lot of personnels for the country and spread Confucianism. After that, the system of Imperial College exsisted for about more than one thousand years. It became an important part of Chinese education systems.