英文摘要 |
This article discusses a special group of people: Xu Xuan(徐鉉) and his disciples' official careers and their influence on political affairs. We usually consider that surrendering subjects in the south had been discriminated during the early Song. Xu Xuan, having most brilliant scholarship among the intellectuals, however, earned respect and admiration from the nucleus among the north literati headed by Li Fang(李昉), and therefore Xu Xuan and his disciples, on the one hand, had more chances to enter the court than other surrendering intellectuals. On the other hand, after Xu Xuan's death, his disciples, Du Hao(杜鎬), Chen Pengnian(陳彭年), and Wang Qinruo(王欽若), gained Emperor Zhenzong of Song's trust. They utilized their teacher's political concept and successfully convinced Zhenzong to follow the example of Xuanzong of Tang in the era of "The Auspicious Talisman of Great Centrality" (大中祥符). Xu Xuan's disciples' political weight thus had increased up to the unprecedented level. |