Han Ling Emperor And Hongdumen Academy Research

Hongdumen Academy was an art institute which was established by Han Ling Emperor at the end of the Later Han Dynasty. Hongdumen Academy conscripted many people who had acquired their mastery of Chi Du,Han Fu and NiaoChongZhuan into the government. Hongdumen Academy disappeared away from the stage of history rapidly soon after its rapid rise,by reason of the orthodox intellectuals'strong opposition.Even so, Hongdumen Academy resulted in very great influence on politics,education and literature.In this paper,using the method of phiology,in combination with the political status in a bid to evaluate the life of Han Ling Emperor,explore the complex reasons of Hongdumen Academy's fonudation,make a textual research on fundamental historical facts,reveal the important feature of Hongdumen Academy.The first chapter description the research situation to determine the object of study papers,scope and focus of how the research significance and research methodologies.Chapter II an overview of the life of Han Ling Emperor and the reasons of the Hongdumen Academy's fonudation. The thesis which divides into four parts summarize the life of Han Ling Emperor. At that time when Han Ling Emperor ascended the throne,the Later Han Dynasty faceded the serious situation of outside sorrow and inte rnal troubles.The ruling class tnternal Waiqi and eunuch took their turns to control power, the traditional intellectual estranged themselves gradually from the government, the frontier was very unsteady. In order to consolidate his rule, Han Ling Emperor had to try to find a balance among all political powers. Confronting the serious crisis,Han Ling Emperor was unwilling to await his doom,he took some measures to save crisis.After the failure of reformation,the inherent dissolute nature of feudal emperors had been fully exposed, Han Ling Emperor made many ridiculous actions which pushed the Later Han Dynasty into the abyss of downfall eventually.The foundation of Hongdumen Academy was one of Han Ling Emperor's reforming measures,its appearance had a profound historical background. The thesis which divides into three parts to discuss the background, a theory of "heterodoxy of natural disasters"was the proximate cause.the Emperor's love of cifu was the remote cause,the motive for maintaining control was the deep-root cause.Chapter III of the textual research on name objects about Hongdumen Academy,including the textual research on geographical position of Hongdumen Academy, the textual research on the figures of Hongdumen Academy and the research on the skills of Hongdumen Academy.Clarifing facts is the basis and prerequisite for theoretical research. Hongdumen is one of palace gates in Luoyang,there are two different opinions about the exact position of Hongdumen,the first view considered that Hongdumen was a palace gates of northern palace,on the contrary,the second opinion deemed it was in the sonthern palace. Our textual research shows that Hongdumen was a palace gates of southern palace.The number of Hongdumen Academy members was enormous, there were nearly one thousand members in Hongdumen Academy.Although many of them were of high official titles,only a few records were left.There were only seven people whose names were recorded.In this chapter,we will first discuss weather Yue-song had held the office of Zhong-chang-shi,in view of above, examine closely the politic motive of the foundation of Hongdumen Academy.Then we will introduce the biography of Liang-hong,who was another representative of Hongdumen Academy, by means of Parallelism and contrast of literature material.From the choice of Liang-hong, we will probe into the relationship between the Hongdumen Academy group and traditional intelligentsia group,and the mental orientation of Hongdumen Academy.After the textual research of representatives,the chapter will analyse the skills of Hongdumen Academy one by one.The members of Hongdumen Academy produced many prose poems,most of them were popular rhapsoddies.Chi-du mainly were official papers, Niao-chong seal script wsa a kind of special typeface,which had both political function and decorate function.Chapterâ…£ of the probe of Hongdumen Academy's features on system level. Hongdumen Academy were compared with imperial college,Dong-guan and Jin-ma-men Daizhao separately.By means of contrast,we found that there were four distinctions between Hongdumen Academy and imperial college:matriculation,composition of members, content and goal of courses,treatment and prospects. Compared with Jin-ma-men Daizhao,there were obvious differences between the number of members and the arrangement for posts.There were far more members in Hongdumen Academy than that in Jin-ma-men Daizhao.The members of Hongdumen Academy had better political future than Jin-ma-men Daizhao. The similarities between Hongdumen Academy and Jin-ma-men Daizhao was that they both were associated with the Later generation's system of subglottic province. There were three distinctions between Hongdumen Academy and Dong-guan:institutions function, memberships, literary and artistic creation.Dong-guan had more functions than Hongdumen Academy,most of the members of Dong-guan were of noble birth.For this reason,their literature works were orthodox and conservative.