从稷下学宫看百家争鸣

CONTENTION OF A HUNDRED SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT AT JIXIA ACADEMY

战国时代，齐都临淄的稷下学宫，是当时学术文化的交流中心和诸子百家争鸣的重要场所。稷下学宫的创建，稷下百家争鸣的展开，不仅形成了先秦百家争鸣的高峰，促进了学术思想的繁荣，而且对中国古代思想文化的发展产生了重大而深远的影响。正如郭沫若先生所说：“这稷下之学的设置，在中国文化史上实在是有划时代的意义。”

In the Warring States Period, Jixia Academy in Linzi, capital of Qi, was an exchange center for academic culture and an important place for the contention of a hundred schools of thought. As Guo Moruo said, 'The setting of Jixia Academy is of epoch-making significance in the history of Chinese culture.'Jixia Academy had three functions. First, it had an educational function in the aspects of cultivating talents and disseminating cultural knowledge. In that period, it was the earliest and largest-scale government-run university in the world. Second, it had an academic research function, and was not only the earliest 'Academy of Social Sciences' in China, but also a national academic research center. Third, it had the function of political consultation and participation in administration and discussion of state affairs, and was the earliest think-tank in China.