论《尚书·洪范》中“五行”的思想意涵

The Ideological Connotations of“Five Elements”in Shangshu·Hongfan

《尚书·洪范》提出了统治者应遵循的九类施政法则--洪范九畴,洪范九畴的思想内涵包括“天”与“人”两面。而洪范九畴中的第一畴“五行”同样拥有着“天”“人”两种面相,其中“天”的面相体现为“天道”意涵,“人”的面相则表现为“民生”“政治”双重意涵的结合。《洪范》“五行”的“天道”意涵为后世五行学说的抽象化、神秘化发展留下了一个思想诱因,该线索也为《洪范》创作于西周时期的观点提供了一个思想史上的证据。

Shangshu·Hongfan puts forward nine types of political rules that rulers should follow,namely“Hongfan’s nine domains”,whose ideological connotations include both“heaven”and“man”.The fi rst domain in“Hongfan’s nine domains”involves“fi ve elements”,which possesses two appearances of“heaven”and“man”.The appearance of“heaven”is embodied in the meaning of“way of heaven”,while the appearance of“man”is expressed in the meaning of“people’s livelihood”and“politics”.Among them,the meaning of“way of heaven”leaves an ideological inducement for the development of abstraction and mystifi cation of the“fi ve elements”theory in later generations.The clue can provide evidence for the viewpoint that“Hongfan”was created in the Western Zhou Dynasty in the fi eld of intellectual history.