A Study Of Liu Zongyuan 's Theory Of Feudalism

FengJianLun, one representative of Liu Zongyuan’s political essays, which focuses on the famous political topic:feudal and counties, is of great significance in the history of literature, politics, philosophy. This article will be to study the feudal theory. This paper is divided into four parts. The first part is the introduction, introducing the significance of this topic and the background of creation. The second part is the background’s analysis of FengJianLun, which mainly involves three aspects:Several fierce debates about the issue of "FengJian" before the Mid Tang Dynasty; The severe buffer region regime during the Mid Tang Dynasty; Liu Zongyuan’s personal factors affecting his creation of FengJianLun. Liu Zongyuan’s experience of life makes him have a profound understanding of the society of the Mid Tang dynasty, especially the buffer region regime and the eunuch authoritarian. Therefore, Liu Zongyuan insists on the revival of the Tang dynasty and the belief of "Li AnYuanYuan" all his lifetime. And he also takes an active part in them practically and theoretically. The thoughts of Liu Zongyuan, including the philosophy thought and the literary thought, guides his creation of FengJianLun. The third part is the text analysis of FengJianLun, mainly analyzes the content and thought of FengJianLun. It includes the introduction of the structure framework of FengJianLun and the closely relationship with the LvShiChun Qiu. And ideologically, it includes the political and philosophy thoughts that reflected in FengJianLun. The fourth part discusses the evaluations of the Feudal theory in all previous dynasties, according to the characteristics of different times:Their opinions have a sharp opposition in the Song and Yuan Dynasty; In the Ming Dynasty, they mainly focus on the analysis of the artistic level; The evaluations of the Qing dynasty are more comprehensive and the analysis are more deeply.