"Confucius'Writing'the Spring and Autumn Annals"in the Han and Tang Dynasties
The proposition of"Confucius'writing'the Spring and Autumn Annals"in the pre-Qin period was mostly accepted,deepened,and even excessively imbued with meaning by the Han and Tang dynasties,and the derivation of its function of governance was further evolved into the highly theological concept of"Confucius being appointed to write it in the Han dynasty.The internal development path of this derivation has its profound ideological motivation.The cultural recognition of"Confucius'writing'the Spring and Autumn Annals"during the Han and Tang dynasties was actually due to the initial worship of the Mandate of Heaven and Holy word,as well as the gradual sanctification of Confucius and the gradual canonization or even deification of the Spring and Autumn Annals.During the Wei and Jin dynasties,extending to the Sui and Tang dynasties,people accepted the sanctification of Confucius as a basis of the consensus of Confucian classics,and there were some modifications and extensions.
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