一个黄金时代的形成与终结——对战国百家争鸣现象的一种解读

Beginning and End of a Golden Age ——An Interpretation of the Contention of Different Schools of Thought in the Warring States Period

春秋战国时期是中国思想史的黄金时代。它为封建社会奠定了制度文化和观念文化的基础,并初步形成了完整的社会宏观调控系统。丰厚的文化积累、良好的文化生态、激烈的社会冲突、独立的智者阶层和天才的出现,是黄金时代形成的原因。随着秦汉大一统中央集权君主专制帝国的建立,黄金时代宣告终结。

The Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period was a golden age of Chinese ideology. This period laid the foundation for feudal institutions and ideology and basically shaped a complete a system of social macro- control. What contributed to the coming of this period were profound cultural accumulation, good cultural ecology, fierce social conflicts, an independent class of think tankers and appearance of talented people. However, the period came to an end when the integrate centralized monarchy empire of the Qing and the Han Dynasty were founded.