The Western Han Dynasty Yuan, A Period Of Confucian Scholars Participate In Political Analysis

Confucian Scholars involved in politics did not begin with the Western Han Dynasty,it canpush to the Spring and Autumn Period.Confucius and his disciples have an official to doslaughter and review the conduct of public affairs.But it is undeniable that after the Western HanDynasty scholars are so massive and exclusive to participate in political life. After the westernhan dynasty dynasty emperor "Rejection of various philosophical"period, The state of the art andhuang Lao said gradually turned to philosophical. And completed this change is in the westernhan dynasty, emperor han han YuanDi to reign, This paper is the study of the western handynasty, emperor han han YuanDi into period to participate in the political situation of theConfucian scholars,focusing on analysis of the scholars to participate in political conditions,characteristics and impact.First,there are many favorable conditions that scholars can participate in political life. Thesupport of the emperor to Confucianism and Confucian scholars is the most important condition.In the context of autocratic monarchy, without the emperor’s support, any school or anyone willnot be tenable in the country’s political affairs. At the same time, due to the loss of many ancientbooks in the Qin Dynasty and the Confucian doing better than other schools in finishing in thebooks and spreading, many ancient books of the Western Han Dynasty had been handed downare overtly or covertly reveal Confucianism. These ancient books had lofty status in the politicallife at this time and scholars’ proficient to books make them have an unparalleled advantage. Thedevelopment of Dynastic politics in China had been much mature to the Western HanDynasty.Scholars can participate in the government through a variety of the secularizationway.The Western Han government allowed the emergence of different voices in order tomaintain their rule. It is because of the existence of the above conditions, Confucian scholarsparticipating in politics becomed possible.In this period scholars participating in politics has a distinctive feature of which is determinedboth by the scholars of their own characteristics and by the impact of the social environment.Specifically, these features include the following four points: the scholars had a variety of waysto influence the political affairs, the relationship between the scholars and the imperial was thatdependence and confrontation coexist, the separatist tendency of scholars within groups weremore and more obvious, the popular social thought of scholars participating in politics,. Thesefeatures reflects all the links and contradictions of state and scholars, scholars and imperialpower, scholars internal, and Confucian scholars and society. In this period, scholars who werein these relationships showed the ideological tendency and acting style which are different fromother periods. Scholars involved in politics, in fact is the interaction of scholars and political. The results istransforming scholars and affecting the development of the political process. The impact ofscholars involved in the politicaland includes the following three aspects: the scholars, theWestern Han dynasty and later. For scholars,to participate in politics on the one hand made itobtain glory and interests, on the other hand would cause its vitality and decline; for the WesternHan Dynasty, when there is hope in the dynasty,the scholars then effort to support it and slowdown its decline and fall, but when the dynasty lost the revival of hope, and Confucian scholarswould quickly to invest in the opposite side of the dynasty, and even act as a "vanguard" of thedynasty; for future generations in terms of how to control the scholars better has been a problem,on the one hand it asks the scholars the firm’s to stand in the dynasty side, on the one hand, andwith the government supervision of fu Confucian scholar and put forward the suggestion thatright, to become the dynasty of the "relief valve".