Qilu Evening News·Qilu One Point Reporter Qu Peng
As a new dynasty that existed between the two Han dynasties, the historical materials of its creator Wang Mang mainly exist in Ban Gu's " Hanshu·Wang Mang Biography_" "Span6span", but Bangu, who was in the Eastern Han Dynasty, took on the mission of maintaining official orthodoxy, making Wang Mang's face gradually darkened. In subsequent dynasties, countless people exuded infinite historical knowledge based on limited historical data, and made mixed evaluations of Wang Mang, which invisibly made Wang Mang a controversial historical figure: after all, Wang Mang is a "philosopher of the world" "The king", or the usurper of "the world abandons" the Han? Holy king, usurper, liar, hypocrite, politician, reformer, early socialist, utopian socialist, leftist Confucian priest, which one is Wang Mang's truest side? "Auspicious: Wang Mang and His Era" is the first "historical non-fiction" work by the up-and-coming writer Zhang Xiangrong. It reproduces the process of regime change from the Western Han Dynasty to the New Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, and outlines Wang Mang's historical features and the rise and fall of the New Mang Dynasty. , Leading readers to think about how Wang Mang used "auspiciousness" to achieve his political goals.
"Auspicious: Wang Mang and His Time"
Zhang Xiangrong's work
Century Wenjing｜ Shanghai People's Publishing House
Just as Peking University professor and historian Luo Xin_span6" Historiography has degraded Xin Mang to the leap position and smeared this important moment of the end of the classical period as weird and absurd.” This is also the reason why Wang Mang, who has an important historical position, has little interest in popular historical readings. To clarify Wang Mang's face, we must first understand the era and political situation he lived in. The sense of heaven and human, auspicious disasters, and fate , which permeated the air of the Han Dynasty, were a very necessary passage.
One of the characteristics of the people of the Han Dynasty is that they believe in heaven, believe in ghosts and gods, believe in heaven, and they feel that God does not speak, but through earthquakes, floods and droughts, locusts and other "disasters" and solar eclipse, meteorites, rumors Wait for "different", or "auspicious" such as pheasant, Jiamu, Caiyun, and nectar to express will. These cataclysms and auspiciousness, or harbingers of the future, or praise and criticism of the past, all reflect the true attitude of God to the ruler. Confucian students, through the "theory" of Confucianism and the "technology" of mathematics, hold the key to answering disasters and the meaning of auspiciousness. As a result, the rule of the Han Dynasty, the Confucian ideals, and the will of heaven were concentratedly reflected in disasters and auspiciousness. Born in the late Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang lost his father at a young age. Although he did not receive preferential treatment as a family member of his relatives, he was able to become a rising star with high hopes from a Confucian scholar and his thorough manner in life. With the help of "auspiciousness", he returned to the court; amidst the cheers of the crowd, he rose higher and higher, and finally legally established a new dynasty. "Auspicious: Wang Mang and His Time" intercepts the historical fragments of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty to Xin Mang, from the perspective of "Auspicious Rui", analyzes Wang Mang's personal, family and political affairs related characters, and reproduces the Queen Mother Wang Zhengjun and his relatives Wang family Wang Mang at the center of the vortex was re-examined in the struggle between the royal family surnamed Liu, Confucian classics, and bureaucratic scholar-bureaucrats in the political arena in the late Western Han Dynasty to get a glimpse of him and the real situation of the times.
Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty promoted Confucianism , Huanglao , Confucianism, and French thoughts have launched a battle for ideological dominance. Wudi Since the dynasty, after the doctor of Confucianism's interpretation of Confucianism and the efforts of Confucian bureaucrats in governance practices, Confucianism has become an ideological weapon to defend the imperial power in the late Western Han Dynasty. In "Auspicious: Wang Mang and His Time", the author Zhang Xiangrong believes that Wang Mang's rise also depends on the promotion of Confucian classics. To understand Confucian classics, one cannot rely on the texts of Confucian classics alone. It is not enough to read the original text and commentaries. Like Wang Mang, Confucian Classics should also be placed in the specific historical evolution in order to present the mission and success or failure of Confucianism in this period. Wang Mang and Jingxue are also two clues intertwined with light and dark.The academic controversy of the modern ancient texts is essentially a political game. The at the turn of the Han Dynasty and the modern ancient texts dispute not only provided ideological resources for Wang Mang to establish a new dynasty and resolve the crisis of political legitimacy, but also provided ideological resources for the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the founding period, Liu Xiu provided ideological support for revitalizing the Han Dynasty.
History itself represents reality. Exploring the essence of history is a process of seeking truth. Is it contradictory to combine "history" with "non-fiction"? The author Zhang Xiangrong stated that the historical non-fictional narrative method "carrying the mission is not academic research, but to attract more people to pay attention to this topic." This writing method, on the one hand, must absorb cutting-edge academic achievements and transmit reliable historical knowledge. On the other hand, it is necessary to improve the readability of works in the fields of literary writing and layout, and use plain language to tell the obscure and complicated historical clues. In other words, the narrative technique of "historical non-fiction" is to draw boring historical materials from the study to the eyes of the public readers, forming a historical scroll that everyone can participate in.
In addition, the "historical context" constructed by the author in "Auspicious: Wang Mang and His Time" brings readers an immersive reading experience, allowing readers to return to the historical scene and be on the scene. Directly touching the daily life and thought trajectory of the characters at that time is also the direction of the "historical non-fiction" approach. Therefore, it is necessary for the writer to be able to extract richer historical information from the limited historical materials, and create a more vivid character image and inner world. The author's pursuit of "historical non-fiction" is precisely the key to unveiling Wang Mang's historical veil. Therefore, "Auspicious: Wang Mang and His Time" retains the academic and ideological nature, and adds the vividness and interest of the text, so that more readers can feel a full image of Wang Mang at close range.
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