A Study On The Discussion Of The Pre-Tang Period

As one of the Zouyi Articles,"discussion" is a style used by ancient officials to present political views and discuss state affairs,which has a strong political function.This paper takes the "discussion" before the Tang Dynasty as the research object,and analyzes the divergence,operation,content and function,style evolution and writing skills of the "discussion" from the perspective of stylistics,applied writing and writing.From the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty,"discussion" text starts from scratch,through the gestation,establishment,development of three stages.The pre-Qin period was the gestation period of "discussion" writing.At that time,there had already been the discussion of speech and the text of the speech similar to “discussion”.The Qin and Han Dynasties were the establishment period of "discussion".The text of "discussion" appeared and the body of discussion was established.The Wei,Jin and Sui Dynasties were the development period of "discussion".The number of "discussion" articles is increasing day by day,and the concept of discussion body is becoming more and more mature.The "discussion" text is produced from the proceedings,and it is submitted to the emperor by the minister or the document agency.The process of writing,transmitting and accepting the "proposal" reflects the country’s management system and decision-making situation.From the perspective of text content,there are three main types of "discussion" before Tang Dynasty.They are current politics,ritual system and law.Political "discussion",which plays the function of establishing state,mainly discusses the contents of economy and civil affairs,military affairs and foreign affairs,employment and official affairs,children and heir,etc.The "discussion" of rites is the product of the culture of rites and music,which plays the function of ruling the country with rites.Legal "discussion" discusses the content of law,penalty,calendar and so on,and plays the function of maintaining order.Throughout the various stages of the development of "discussion",the style of "discussion" is somewhat different.It has generally gone through the change process of simple and simple elegance in the the Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties,complicated and simple interaction and common sense in the Wei and Jin Dynasties,and gorgeous and simple coexistence in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui Dynasty.Based on the text analysis,the writing of "discussion" focuses on the layout of the text and the skills of persuasion,and strives to make the content vivid and direct tothe sacred heart.