新学人与旧文化:民初嘉兴拆毁文庙之探析

The Research on the Demolition of Jiaxing Confucian Temple in the Early Years of the Republic of China

嘉兴文庙自唐宋建立伊始,即寄托着官绅对地方教化的期待,通过庙学合一的建制,逐渐成为社会风教之中心。发生在新文化运动背景下的嘉兴拆毁文庙一案,起于清末以来学科更新与共和理念影响下诞生的新文化精英革新社会的尝试,却彰显出民国初年地方官绅对传统道德价值的普遍坚守与认同,在案件推演中展现出的保守社会氛围述说着新文化强势话语下的另类地方面相。

The Jiaxing Confucian Temple had been highly expected to be the center of social education by officials and gentry who wanted to promote moral values among the masses by combining the temple and the educational system since the Tang-Song period. The demolition of Jiaxing Confucian Temple took place during the New Culture Movement, due to an attempt to reform the society by elites who were affected by discipline renovation and the idea of republic since the late Qing Dynasty. However, it shows that the traditional moral values were still universally identified by local officials and gentry in the early years of the Republic. The case appeared in the conservative social climate rather than employing the idea of the New Culture Movement. In other words,it reveals another aspect of the local society in the New Culture Movement.