《白虎通义》:帝国政典和儒家经典的结合

Comprehensive Discussions in the White Tiger Hall:A Combination of Imperial Political Codes and Confucian Classics

《白虎通义》是汉代士大夫与帝王在合作过程中而达成的政治盟约与文化共识。首先,作为一部汉代帝国政治的政典,《白虎通义》的根本目的是确立帝国的政治制度、治理方法的思想基础和政治原则,突出地表现出帝国政治的要求。其次,作为一部儒家经学的大典,《白虎通义》通过大量引证儒家经典来表达士大夫的政治思想与文化理念时,使得《白虎通义》在内容和形式上均具有儒家经学著作的特点,是汉代士大夫的思想表达。

Comprehensive Discussions in the White Tiger Hall （《白虎通义》） was a political agreement and cultural consensus reached in the process of cooperation between the literati and the Emperors in the Han Dynasty. On the one hand, as a set of political codes of the Han Empire, it was primarily aimed at establishing the ideological foundation and political principle for the imperial political system and governmental policies, which distinctly reflected the demands of the imperial regime. On the other hand, as a great work of Confucian classics, it used large amounts of quotations from Confucian classics to express the political thinking and cultural conception of the literati, which was characterized with Confucian classic works both in content and form, and was a good expression of the Hart literati＇ s thought.