A Study Of Sweet Dew During The Han And Tang Dynasties

Since the Han dynasty,auspicious omens thought have prevailed.Under the influence of the thought,Sweet Dew gradually delivered a special political meaning from a kind of natural phenomenon in ancient.The appearance of "Ganlujiang" represents the political situation of the reign of the sage and the virtue of the monarch,and it shows the social style of Political stability and people living in safety and the prosperous and peaceful world.If the monarch's virtue known to heaven,then the Sweet Dew will fall.After the fall of the Sweet Dew,the emperor's always took some the method of reform,amnesty,and gifts to his subjects.This is a concrete manifestation of the emperor's political responsibility of "inheriting the fate of the heavens and succumbing to the common people",indicating his political response to the heavenly auspiciousness as a "son of heaven".After the Wei and Jin dynasties,the phenomena of auspiciousness such as Sweet Dew became increasingly important.After the appearance of the Sweet Dew,the emperor would show to the courtiers,and accept the tribute and congratulations of the courtiers.The Sweet Dew incident in the late Tang Dynasty was planned by Li Xun and others in the name of congratulations on the confession of Sweet Dew.After the plan failed,the phenomenon of "Ganlujiang" has since then changed from Auspicious omens to a political ban.It was rarely mentioned in the history until the Five Dynasties.Behind this textual change,it shows that the ancients had a profound and complex political background in the record of "Ganlujiang".In the Western Han Dynasty,"Ganlujiang" was limited to the Capital.However,in the Eastern Han Dynasty,it began to be recorded in local prefectures.This change shows that Sweet Dew's exclusive auspiciousness from the emperor has gradually become a honor for the local government.When local governors were in charge of the party,they were widely educated and punished.Therefore,political affairs were clarified.Sweet Dew is also one of the main omen in the Xiaogan phenomenon.In the Eastern Han Dynasty,Emperor Han Mingdi was very filially.When he worshipping the sacrifice his parent's mausoleum,the Sweet Dew fell on the tree,which became the motif of the filial piety phenomenon in later generations.Since then,officials and filial sons among the common people have also been reported to have caused Ganlujiang.As a auspicious omens of filial piety,Sweet Dew obtained a close relationship with filial piety because previous rulers attached great importance to filial piety and they sought loyal officials from filial sons.In ancient times,officials had strange political phenomena,and filial sons could also attract strange things.The frequent appearance of Sweet Dew in the biographies of officials and filial sons,not only one of the inherent patterns of historical text writing under the induction of heaven and man,but also a direct manifestation of the politicization of the auspicious phenomenon.