The Scholar-officials’ Value Orientation And Political Order At The End Of The Eastern Han Dynasty

The queen charged the state, consorts and the eunuchs went against each other in The last Eastern Han Dynasty.It lead to political order became inordinate,and some systems were lacked.But scholar-officials made different decisions according to their own values. Some insisted Confucian orthodoxy, In order to eliminated the pernicious influence, they resisted vehemently consorts and the eunuchs who lead to political order became inordinate; Some compromised, they entered their official career by depending on consorts and the eunuchs. Some depended on consorts and the eunuchs,followed them for high official positions and riches. Some neither connived consorts and the eunuchs nor devoted to truth, they retreated and stayed from officialdom to played them safe.Scholar-officials’ different value-oriented selection affected the political order.According to more scholar-officials selected the former kinds, they maintained energetically political order of the last Eastern Han Dynasty. So the Eastern Han Dynasty could maintain its regulation for one hundred years.