Historical Truth of Exclusive Confucianism Reverence and Spiritual Transformation of Confucian Scholars

An analysis of the historical truth,based on relevant records in Shi Ji and Han Shu,that evolves from the margin to the political cultural centre of the Han Dynasty,reveals that Dong Zhongshu comes up with the proposal of so-called rejection of various philosophical schools and exclusive reverence of Confucianism only with the prerequisite that the Han-Dynasty Emperor Wu just previously confirms rejection of various schools and honor of Liu Jing,which is motion-seconding rather than motion-initiating.The fact that Dong is held in esteem as a master is because he draws analogies and makes the past serve the present through deducing Chun Qiu catastrophes with yinyang,and sets a model for the Han Confucian scholars in accommodation and transformation of role-consciousness as the situation demands.Dong advocates wang dao san gang(benevolent way of ruling and three cardinal guides),even ungrudgingly violates the pre-Qin Confucian scholastic positions,revises with huang lao xing ming(schools of Huangdi,Taoists,Legalists and Logicians),and makes clear the spiritual transformation of Confucian scholars under the Han-Dynasty autocratic unitarity.