The Culture Implication Of The State-Administration Method During The Zhenguan Period

During the long period of feudal society, Chinese politics has been great influenced by traditional culture. The characteristics of traditional culture such as emphasizing oneself-conduction and ethics, but ignoring rules have deeply penetrated into the state-administration concepts and methods. At the same time, the ration-within-practice characteristic of traditional culture has endowed the traditional political culture of China with feudalistic features and ethnic characteristics. For example, preferring philanthropism to rules and regulations, advocating people-oriented concept rather than democracy and power-privacy without any restriction have reflected the national features of the traditional culture. And these features contrast sharply with the western traditions with the characteristics of emphasizing science, legal principles and regulations. Tang Dynasty is one of the prosperous periods which rarely appear in Chinese long history, and"Zhenguan Peace and Prosperity"is a representative among the"times of peace and prosperities". The Zhenguan dominion group with Tang Taizong as its leader initiated the harmonious prospect between the monarch and his subjects, the monarch and his civilians, the Hans and the Minorities, and established a new cultural basis. It is definitely that the occurrence of the harmonious society is closely related to the state-administration concept beyond the time-restriction of the Zhenguan monarch and his subjects, which to some extent broke the traditional cultural structure and was penetrated with rational cultural traditions and state-administration model of the western societies, such as the law-ruling awareness, decentralization model, initial democrat thoughts, the concept of equal among the ethnic groups, fraternity, initial equal awareness among nations as well as the creative national policies and systems, etc., and all of them facilitated the stable politics, the prosperous society as well as the harmonious national relationships. The emphasis of the talents and virtue, the thoroughly employment of people-oriented concept, the initial exploration to running the country according to law and power-restriction, the primary attempt of democracy and the respect to the human being, life and the minorities of the Zhenguan dominion group have added positive elements to the traditional political culture. It also provides reference and enlightenment for building socialism political culture with Chinese charactistics under the guidance of contemporary marxism in China—the system with Chinese charactistics, which are consistent with the definition of culture and verify it as well: culture is the effective orderly crystallization formed during practice with historic, national and contemporary features, it is the essence of practice or the synthesis of practice information.