文以载道——唐宋科举士人参与政治的投名状

Attitude in the article-the political commitment for imperial examination scholars in the Tang and Song dynasties

“文以载道”是唐宋科举士人在皇权面前的集体投名状,是科举贵族取代门阀贵族之际的政治承诺,是古代中国社会特定的历史阶段具有特定历史的、文化的、社会学的多重意义的文学现象。在中唐历史的关键节点上,以韩愈为代表的中唐士人发起的古文运动回应了这一时代问题,韩愈也借此成为古代中国封建社会后半期的文化巨人。

“Attitude in the article" is the collective political commitment under the imperial power for examination schol-ars in the tang and song dynasties, is the political commitment for the examination aristocracy instead of the landlord aris-tocracy. It is also the specific literary phenomenon with some combined meanings of history, culture and sociology during the specific historical stage of ancient Chinese society. At the critical point in the history of the middle Tang dynasty, the ancient literature movement initiated by scholars of the middle Tang dynasty is the typical phenomenon for that at that time. HAN Yu is one of the important representatives and later became a cultural giant in the latter half of the feudal society of ancient China.