清谈的政治功用與玄学的兴起

Abstract

since emperor Wu Di of Han Dynasty who honored Confucianism exclusively, Confucianism had become the mainstream ideology and culture of Han Dynasty, controlled by the official. However, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with the rise of the the scholar-bureaucrat class, the imperial power representing the eunuch lost control of Confucianism; on the other hand,the scholar-bureaucrat class took advantage of their own Confucian classics study of many generations in the way of Qing Tan and Qing Yi to keep the mainstream culture- Confucianism for their own and further dominated the power of folk evaluation and royal court officials selecting. The separation of core power and the mainstream culture lasted until the Zhengshi period: Yan He, Bi Wang and other people of Cao camp advocated metaphysics to fight against the aristocracy of Confucianism, which overthrew the cultural ideology of Confucianism and, broke the monopoly of the scholar-bureaucrats literati on the mainstream culture, heavily defeated the forces of the Literati-official class. Therefore, the essence of advocating metaphysics is a ideological culture movements launched by Cao camp to curb the aristocratic force.