公孙弘生平考评

A Researching on the Life of Gongsun Hong

公孙弘生于汉初,早年家贫谋生,少时任薛地狱吏、北海牧民;中年致力求学,四十余岁始习《春秋》,受学胡毋生,从游董仲舒,以孝廉、文学闻名乡邦;晚年征召入仕,六十、七十岁两举贤良,以对策得武帝垂青,历任郎官、博士、左内史、御史大夫以至丞相,八十寿岁薨于相位。作为西汉早期承前、折中、启后的儒林领袖人物,其历史地位可总评为:传承前代的齐地学术名家、权衡中朝的一代政治名臣、开启后世功利化的制度改革者。

Gongsun Hong(200-121 B.C.)was born at the beginnng of Western Han Dynasty.In his youth,he was serving as a prison servant in Xue shire and then herding pig around North Sea.In the mid age,he was studying Chun-Qiu Bible and other theories from Master Huwu and Dong Zhongshu after 40 years old,and becoming famous in hometown for his fealty and honesty.In the old age,he started an official career twice at 60 and 70 years old;then being literature officer and doctor officer;then gotting raised from a royal historian,to the chief inspector,and even died as a prime minister at 80 years old.As a conclusion of the researching on this great man,who inherited the academia tradition,and made the trade-off between classics and politics of scholarship,and carries the election system of Cunfucian from the pass to the future in China,Gongsun Hong is strictly an ideal leader of Cunfucians in the early government of Emperor Wu.