- 著者
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三浦 雄城
- 出版者
- 東洋文庫
- 雑誌
- 東洋学報 = The Toyo Gakuho (ISSN:03869067)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.101, no.4, pp.31-60, 2020-03
Along with development of the study of the Confucian classics (jingxue 經學) during the Han Period, there also appeared a related strain of mystic doctrine (chenwei 讖緯), related to the power of the emperors. The research to date on the use of chenwei-related works has indicated the possibility that although the writings on divination (tuchen 圖讖) done at the time of the enthronement of Later Han Emperor Guangwu (Guangwudi 光武帝; r. 25–57 CE) had no ideational connection to either Confucius or the Confucian classics, by the time of the fengshan 封禪 festivals of heaven and earth at Mt. Taishan 泰山, such prophetic writing was being influenced by Confucian ideas. The present article follows this research in considering exactly how Emperor Guangwu came to deal with chenwei works in connection with Confucian thought. To begin with, despite the fact that the theory that Confucius had written chenwei books to testify to the establishment and continued existence of the Han dynasty (Kong Qiu Mijing 孔丘秘經 Theory) had already appeared during the last years of the Xin Dynasty, the influence of Confucian chenwei thought was no widespread; and even after the uprising and enthronement of Emperor Guangwu, little interest was directed at the connection of chenwei to Confucianism. Rather, it was a time when the Emperor regarded chenwei as being effective in more concrete matters connected to rural life, the conquest of Hebei, etc. It was not until around the 6th year of Jianwu Era (30 CE) that Gongsun Shu 公孫述, the independent warlord of the Sichuan region, began operations to incite people by spreading the word of Confucian chenwei throughout Zhongyuan 中原. Meanwhile, beginning in the previous year, Emperor Guangwu had initiated various programs aimed at stabilizing the social crisis and chaos in the midst of military conflict through the introduction of Confucian ideas. Both movements were attempts to appeal to, agitate among and win the hearts of the people of Zhongyuan, who were by no means steadfast in loyalty to the Emperor Guangwu’s regime, by appealing to them, even if symbolically, with the then widely shared authority, i.e. Confucian ideas. The author concludes that the preconditions for these efforts, i.e. the penetration of Confucianism into Chinese society, led to the utilization of Confucian chenwei by Emperor Guangwu, through the political tensions at the beginning of the Later Han Period.