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| Confucian Characteristics in Interaction of Politics and Confucianism in Early Han Dynasty |
| SHI Jing, HAN Xing |
| School of Chinese Classics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872 |
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Abstract The imperial edict is an important manifestation of interaction between politics and Confucianism at national level. The edicts in early Han Dynasty contained much content relevant to Confucianism, such as enriching people, discreet penalty and filial piety. Some scholars believe that this is the implementation of Confucianism in political practice at initial stage. Confucianism spread in parallel with Huang-Lao thoughts in early Han Dynasty, but it was no implemented at political level. Confucian characteristics embodied in imperial edicts are not so much the influence of Confucianism to rulers as the theme shared by Huang-Lao thoughts and Confucianism. From the imperial edicts in early Han Dynasty, we can see that the rulers’ self-orientation deviated far the Confucians ideal of "being saintly within and kingliness without": they enriched the people but not cultivated them, believing that people-enriching contributes to law-abiding rather than cultivation; they still took the rule of law as the principle although pay attention to discreet penalty. These ideas represent Huang-Lao thoughts which are based on law and punishment and attributed to Huang-Lao’s thought of “being natural and doing nothing”. However, due to these shared motifs, early Han Dynasty put Huang-Lao thoughts into practice, and at the same time paved way for implementation of Confucianism, which created possibility for revivalism and regeneration.
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Received: 06 June 2017
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2017, Vol. 34 
