The Thought Of The Research Of<Guan Zi>

The time between the“spring and autumn period”and the “han period” is an important watershed for the economic development and social transformation in ancient China. With the promotion and popularization of iron tools, the productivity levels had gone up a lot, the original productive relations and the political rules had been successively disintegrated due to not adapting to the new development requirements of the productive forces, and the whole society was in an alternating period from the old to the new. All kings of political forces and social forces want to occupy a place on the national political stage in the future. In the field of ideology and culture, different schools started to recruit celebrated scholars and write books to express a distinct theory, hoping the rulers would one apply their thoughts to govern the country. Above is the background for the book Guanzi to come into been.As for the introduction part, this thesis firstly explains its purpose and significance from the perspective of humanistic pragmatism, thus to enable the readers to better understand the background and writing process. It then used a small section to briefly introduce the research findings and current situation of the book Guanzi, combined with detailed presentation of several related books. Next is the research-design part, which aims to help the readers clarify the structure of the thesis.Since Guanzi has led to great controversy in the history of Chinese ideologies, the thesis starts with the author and completion time of the book rather and directly deals with its basic thoughts. By synthesizing various historical materials together, the thesis has selected the thought of Guanzhong, the thought of Jixia School and the ruling philosophy of Qin-Han dynasty to respectively make a comparison with the thought of Guanzi. The thesis applies some related material to prove their connection, interpret them, and draws its own conclusion on that basis.On account of the fact that the content of Guanzi is much complex, merging together the thoughts of different school such as Ru, Dao, Fa, Nong, Bing, Yinyang etc., converting various disciplines such as Economics, Politics, Law and Philosophy etc. thus it is quite difficult to make an all-dimensional research. In order to “take history as a mirror”, the thesis therefore picks out three major aspects, namely economic ideology, talent ideology and governmental ideology, as its research objects according to the time order of various ideology and the internal logic.In terms of economic ideology the thesis has chosen auricular thought, the industrial business thought, the monetary and fiscal thought to analyze Guanzi. As for the agricultural thought, land utilization and Agricultural tax. The industrial business thought includes the thought of attaching importance to market exchange, strengthening the market management and affirming the value of businesspeople. The monetary and fiscal thought in the thesis mainly deals with state control of coinage and monetary circulation, the regulation of prices, the distribution of wealth and the tax system.Because economic development cannot be separated from the cultivation and selection of the talent, this thesis summarizes the main content about talent in Guanzi. And probe into the specific manifestation of talent ideology from the perspective of both talent cultivation and talent selection. Owing to the fact that talent cultivation is inflected in education, the thesis has divided talents training mode into two sections, they are school education and social education. When dealing with talent selection, the thesis, based on the sequence by which the talents are recruited, firstly offers the criteria for judging the talent, then the selection measure, ending with the assessment measures.The purpose of recruiting the talent is for good administration and stability, and the governmental ideology in Guanzi has its own distinct characteristics, namely its state-founding philosophy being “the supremacy of emperors”, and its state-governing principle being “applying both etiquette and law”. As far as first characteristic is concerned, the thesis largely focuses on faith in respecting the sovereign, the norm that the sovereign and his subjects performing their duties, the strategy of attaching great importance to the people. As for the latter one, the thesis chooses five aspects to demonstrate, they are valuing the role of moral enlightenment, emphasizing the idea of governing the state according to law, the open and transparent legislation objective, the changed and unchanged legislative principle, advocating the fairness of law.Combining with the accrual situation of the current society in the light of development, the thesis ends with a summary of the above parts, and it has analyzed respectively the viewpoint in Guanzi from modern perspective, ultimately sublimating the connotation of the thesis.