| Summary: | 碩士 === 華梵大學 === 東方人文思想研究所 === 98 === ABSTRACT
Owing to the occupational interests of being a clerical staff for dealing with secretarial documents in the recent years, the course of ”Special Subject of Wen Xuan’s Selected Literature” was therefore selected fortunately and happily during the master program. However, it leads me auspiciously to dive into the field of “Emperor’s edicts” of “Ancient Practical Writings” by reading the “Edict of Distinguished Men’s Request” of the Emperor Wu of Han previously. Since the erudition or elegance for edicts of Han’s Emperor and the magnificence, resplendence or gorgeousness for edicts of the Emperor Wen of Han, the investigation and adventure of “Emperor’s edicts” was therefore confirmed and studied as the research topic of my master program.
The present thesis is divided into five chapters: Chapter One “Introduction” includes three parts. The first part “Motivation” illustrates the reason of selection of “The Edicts of Emperor Wen of Han” as the target of the present investigation; The second part “Study Method” provides the whole construction of the present thesis alternately using Literature Analysis Method, Statistic Analysis Method, Comparative Analysis Method, Inductive Method, Classification Analysis Method, and Annotation Method with the materials of the edicts of Emperor Wen of Han entitled from the books of “Records of the Grand Historian”, “Book of Han”, “Western Han and Estern Han Imperial Edicts and Orders of Imperial Collection of Four”, and “The Whole Ancient Chinese Prose of Three Generation, The Qin/Han Dynasty, Three Kingdoms, and Six Dynasties”. The third part of “Literatures Survey and Referring” illustrates the learning and references of two related master theses entitled “The Study of The Edicts of Wu Zaou Shiuang of Three Dynasties for Western Han Dynasty” of Mr. Zing-Yuan Chen from Department of Chinese Literature, Fu Jen Catholic University and “The Study of The Edicts of Duke of Shiuang Lu” of Tai-Ling Hsu from Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hsuan Chuang University. Chapter Two of “Definition and Literary Styles” also includes three parts. The first part is “Definition and Sources” illustrated the differences of the edicts of Emperors from ancient times. “The Edicts of Emperors” were used and followed from the Qin Dynasty unifying the whole China and terminated in Qing Dynasty. The second part of “Literary Styles and Structures” describes the literary styles of “The Edicts of Emperors” are one kind of “Practical Writings” but not “Pure Literature or Art”. The four characteristics of “The Edicts of Emperors” are as following: (1) Consistency; (2) Legal Institutions; (3) Specification; (4) Replacement. The third part of “Character Use and Application” illustrated the substitutional rules of “The Edicts of Emperors” that make them feel elegant, professional, resplendence or gorgeous. Chapter Three of “Meaning and Explanation of The Edicts of Emperor Wen of Han” also includes three parts. The first part of “History of Emperor Wen of Han” illustrates the personalities of ”filial piety and fraternal duty” or “kindheartedness” of Emperor Wen of Han. Before the death of Empress Dowager Lu, Emperor Wen of Han was a temporary emperor. After of the annihilation of power monopolization and turmoil for relatives Lu Bu by Zhou Bo, Emperor Wen of Han was finally a powerful and formal emperor. During the dynasty of Emperor Wen of Han, based on the original supports, Emperor Wen of Han had administered the whole country aggressively and made lots of benefit future or efforts on agricultural development, abrogation of cruel torture, providing loan, providing for the aged, making peace with rulers of minority nationalities in the border areas by marriage, and suggestion or expert request. The prosperous economy of the whole country was led by Emperor Wen and Jing of Han and it was also named of “The Rule of Wen and Jing” by descendants. The second part of “Management and Statistics of The Edicts of Emperor Wen of Han” illustrates the confirmed 34 articles of “The Edicts of Emperor Wen of Han” crisscross-checked and carefully selected from 25 articles of book of “Records of the Grand Historian”, 34 articles of “Book of Han”, 29 articles of “Western Han and Estern Han Imperial Edicts and Orders of Imperial Collection of Four”, and 33 articles of “The Whole Ancient Chinese Prose of Three Generation, The Qin/Han Dynasty, Three Kingdoms, and Six Dynasties” (totally 34 articles). The third part of “Meaning and Explanation of The Edicts of Emperor Wen of Han” illustrating the selected 34 articles of “The Edicts of Emperor Wen of Han” were discussed, explained, and divided into nine sections including agriculture, law, society, offer sacrifices to gods or ancestors, military affairs, diplomacy or national defense, personnel matters, suggestion or experts request, and morality. The fourth part of Chapter Four illustrates the characteristics and efforts of the edicts of Emperor Wen of Han. It also provides the speciality or particularity and deep efforts on descendants for the edicts of Emperor Wen of Han. The last part of Chapter Five of “Conclusions” summarizes all the results and discussion in every chapter. Moreover, based on the edicts of Emperor Wen of Han, it proofs and indicates that his personalities of ”filial piety and fraternal duty”, “kindheartedness”, and “virtuous and sincere” enhances each other's beauty notably with peaceful country’s administration in Emperor Wen of Han’s outstanding achievements official career.
Keywords: Emperor Wen of Han, Edict.
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