明堂创制的构想与唐高宗的政治心态

Conception of the Imperial Ceremonial Palace and Emperor of Gao of the Tang Dynasty's Political Psychology

唐高宗在礼仪制度建设方面取得重大突破,在成功举行封禅典礼之后,又开始积极推动明堂创制及其礼仪的讨论,并先后提出明堂"九室"内样和明堂建筑形制的定本。明堂创制并非单纯的制度文化建设问题,而是包含有复杂的现实政治内涵,推动明堂创制乃是唐高宗实现政治上去贞观化、树立个人政治形象的一项重要举措,在一定程度上体现了他试图实现超越唐太宗功业的政治心态。唐高宗在其统治后期与武则天之间的权力之争愈趋激烈,令他无暇亦无力于制度文化建设,是明堂在其统治时期最终未能创建的根本原因。

Emperor of Gao of the Tang Dynasty made a significant breakthrough in ceremonial construction in his reign. After a successful ceremony of sacrifices of heaven and earth, he actively promoted the discussion on the establishment of the imperial ceremonial palace and relevant etiquette, and successively put forward the blueprint of the ＂nine halls＂ and the architectural form of the imperial ceremonial palace. The establishment of the imperial ceremonial palace didn＇t merely mean institutional construction but involved very complicated im- plications of realistic politics. Thus promotion of construction of the imperial ceremonial palace one of Emperor of Gao＇ s important measures to remove the remaining influence of the reign of Zhenguan so as to establish his own political image, which revealed, in a way, his political psychology to attempt to exceed the accomplish- ments of his ancestors. However, in the late days of his reign, owing to more and more violent struggle over power between him and Wu Zetian, Emperor of Gao could spare little mind to construction of institutional construction. This was the primary cause for failure of establishing the imperial ceremonial palace in his reign.