略析洪秀全对于西方文化的态度

Brief Analysis of Hong Xiuquan's Attitude Towards Western Culture

金田起义前,洪秀全对于西方文化的态度,经历了一个变化的过程:起初对具有西方文化内容的《劝世良言》并不重视,搁置起来;接着认真研读,信从其中一些说教,且进行宣传活动,也萌发作救世主的异样想法;而后受到社会实践的教育,便结合中国历史尤其是现实加以阐述,又多少突破《劝世良言》的束缚,开始提出自己的太平理想;再经过实际斗争的磨练,终于发展到决心发动群众,从事现实斗争的程度,以实现其理想主张。而定都天京后,洪秀全从维护太平天国自身的权益出发,对于西方文化采取区别对待的态度:一方面,不闭关自守,愿与西方文化沟通,对《资政新篇》中反映西方科学技术文化和一些社会管理知识的建议,以及洪仁玕吸取西方历法知识而奏改天历的主张予以肯定,表示接受;另一方面,对《资政新篇》中有着西方新闻自由等影响的措施,特别是传教士提出的自由传教与宗教文化思想,保持警惕,或决然抵制,并坚持自己的信仰主张,同西方的宗教文化思想相对立。

Before Jintian Rebellion, Hong Xiuquan's attitude towards western culture experienced changes. At first, he ignored Good Advice , a book which includes some western culture. Later on, he read the book carefully, believed in some doctrines in it, propagated them, and developed his strong desire of becoming the Savior. Then, he expounded the doctrines according to the history and reality of China, and put forth his ideal of bringing about a good social order without war for the first time. After he made Tianjing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's capital, Hong Xiuquan adopted different attitudes towards western culture. On the one hand, he affirmed and acknowledged the western culture of science and technology and some propositions about social management in Zi Zheng Xin Pian . He also accepted Hong Rengan's advice of revising the Kingdom's calendar according to the Western calendar. On the other hand, he was on guard against and strongly opposed to the measures introduced in Zi Zheng Xin Pian influenced by freedom of the press in the West; simultaneously, he maintained a careful eye upon and firmly turned down such religious cultural ideas as freedom of preaching one's religious beliefs put forward by missionaries; he upheld and adhered to his own beliefs and propositions.