王符的时代与经学新变刍议

A Brief Discussion on the Times of Wang Fu and the New Changes of Confucian Classics

王符是东汉时期著名政论散文家,其所处的时代风云巨变,动荡不安,朝政腐败,外戚和宦官交替执政,中央集权被削弱,人民长期遭受吏患和灾荒,苦不堪言。所著《潜夫论》成书于东汉中后期经学新变的时代潮流中。东汉经学较西汉有重要转变,具体表现在:经学由"专"向博通发展,儒生不再固守某一家学说;经学走向谶纬化;经学受政治影响减弱,向学术本位回归。东汉经学的新变对王符及其《潜夫论》产生了重要影响。

Wang Fu was a famous political essayist in the Eastern Han Dynasty.He lived in the times of great changes,turmoil,corruption,relatives and the eunuchs alternately being in power,and the centralization been weakened,which led to the people suffered from placeman persecution and famine for a long time,and their lives were miserable.The book of"A Treatise on the Latent Man"was written in the new changes of Confucian classics in the middle and later periods of the Eastern Han Dynasty.The Confucian classics in the Eastern Han Dynasty were more important than that in the Western Han Dynasty,which was specifically manifested in the following areas:The development of Confucian classics was from"special"to Broadcom,and the Confucian scholars no longer stuck to a certain theory;The Confucian classics went to divination;The political influence of Confucian classics was weakened,and it returned to the academic standard.The new change of Eastern Han Dynasty has produced important influence on Wang Fu and his"A Treatise on the Latent Man".