论尧舜禹禅让的政治原则与历史形态

On the political rules of Yao-Shun-Yu Shanrang and its later form

传说中的尧舜禹禅让并不是原始禅让政治的常态。作为原始禅让政治的晚期形态,尧舜禹禅让起着架构原始民主选举制度、夏商周世袭制度的历史作用,它所确立的禅让政治原则成为后世皇权专制制度下的封建禅让政治的思想立法。

The shanrang system of the legend Yao-Shun-Yu times is not similar to the political system of electing the chiefs of the primitive tribes, and it is only the later form of primitive democratic election system. Yao-Shun-Yu shanrang system serves as a bridge between primitive democratic election system and hereditary system of the Xia-Shang-Zhou Dynasties. The rules of shanrang politics that was established in Yao-Shun-Yu times supply thought arsenal for shanrang politics of later ages under the imperial autocracy.