A Simple Discussion On The GongYang-studies Of He Xiu

In the Han Dynasty,the GongYang-studies is the official ideology.it flourished with the prosperity of the Han Dynasty,and decayed with the ruin of the Han Dynasty.At the end of the Han Dynasty,the society was stuck in a dim state and academics were just as bad.Faced the corrupt learning and politics,He xiu's studies is a rectification of the decayed scholarship and politics.He xiu's work is aggregation of Han Dynasty's GongYang-studies that summed up the politics and thoughts of the Han Dynasty.However,He did not make new developments for Gong Yang-studies.The most basic construction of his theory is inherited from the early master HuWu sheng and Dong Zhongshu.The work of He Xiu just is an application of the GongYang again.He Xiu wants to rectify the GongYang.The Spring and Autumn Annals is a political book that takes morality as its content and takes history as its as form.There are three dimensions in the writing of Spring and Autumn Annals include according to chaos of times,redact the history of Lu and for the saint of future.There are some rules that be called TiaoLi by scholar of the GongYang distributed in the text of the Spring and Autumn Annals.The TiaoLi is the tool of He Xiu for rectifying the GongYang-studies.It is now known that He Xiu's TiaoLi includes SanKeJiuZhi,WuShi,QiDeng,LiuFu,ErLei,and QiQue,WuJing.In the exposition of He Xiu,the TiaoLi is a summary of political content.There is an analysis of politics and a design of politics in the summary which purposes is save the bad politics.He Xiu wants to rectify politics.In the Eastern Han Dynasty,the successor of Short-lived emperor often is a minor.The grown-up emperor always use his reliant eunuchs struggle with the queen mother and her family to regain the power.It is a special political phenomenon that consort clans and court eunuchs take turns to manipulate the power in history.The disorder of power has caused chaos in society.A stable society need the the order of power.The GongYang-studies provided a set of arguments or designs for politics.Use the power organized through the principles of ZunZun,QinQin,XianXian to construct the institution and shape the order.These principles,system and order are referred to by the Confucians as li,which is the ruler must follow and cannot be violated.In the analysis or design of the GongYang-studies,the key is the ruler.Because the power is in the hands of the ruler,and he construct and maintain the political and social order.In the conception of the GongYang-studies,a series of problems in the political society of the Han Dynasty will be solved by the rulers.But the problems were also caused by the small and large rulers.The ruler can use the power to bulid the order,and also can use the power to destroy it.The scholar of GongYang demonstrated the power of the rulers,but they cannot control it.The powerlessness of the scholar of GongYang confront the power is not only a failure of the reality but also a failure of the theory.