龚自珍忧患思想探析

Sorrow and Calamity Consciousness of Gong Zizhen

龚自珍是嘉道年间出现的一位著名思想家,他对清朝日益严峻的政治腐败、边疆动荡、学风空疏、人才匮乏等危机深为忧虑,并积极为之寻求应对之策。他主张变法革新,积极筹边谋防,倡导经世致用,呼吁培植人才,均切中时弊,顺应了历史潮流,起到了警醒世人、开时代风气的作用。

Gong Zizhen was a famous thinker who lived during the period of Jiaqing to Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty. In those decades, the Qing Dynasty had experienced many crises, including ever-worsening political corruption, border turbulence, exaggerating style of study, shortage of talented people and so on. Gong Zizhen felt great anxious for the crises and actively searched for the solutions to these crises. Gong Zizhen advocated political reform and innovation and actively took part in planning and constructing border defense. For the purposes of emphasizing practical utility and statecraft, he claimed for training of talented people. All his thoughts, which kept common people vigilant and initiated movement of civilization of common people, were cutting into the present-day evils and went with the historical trend.