英文摘要 |
During the Daoguang era of the Qing dynasty (after the Opium War), a large group of officials in the capital Beijing began to hold ceremonial worship in Gu Yanwu's temple. This type of ceremonial worship lasted for seventy to eighty years. This article takes the establishment of a temple for Gu Yanwu and the writing of the Guoshi rulin zhuan as a point of departure for re-examining the way in which the view praising Gu Yanwu as the most important Confucian of the Qing dynasty came into being. The article also examines how this phenomenon related to the cultural and intellectual changes during the Jiaqing and Daoguang eras. During the course of the establishment of the worship of Gu Yanwu, traditional literati circles began to form a quasi spiritual pantheon (quanshen tang, 全神堂) delineating the relative position of each Confucian throughout the Qing dynasty. The sequential arrangement of Confucians in order of importance was at times subtle and intangible but nevertheless present. Through the compilation of collections of Confucian biographies, various groups of literati created their versions of the spiritual pantheon which presented Confucians in order of the importance assigned to them by the compiler. The Guoshi rulin zhuan was one of these biographies and it presented Gu Yanwu as the most significant Confucian of the Qing dynasty. Official statutes and political taboos also influenced the establishment and arrangement of this kind of quasi spiritual pantheon by Qing dynasty Confucians. The article demonstrates the complex interaction between official ideology, scholarship, thought, and social forces during this period and the transformations resulting from these interactions. |