| Abstract |
The Han Dynasty is generally considered to be the era of studies of Xunzi, and there is also a strong criticism of Han Dynasty Confucianism in the Confucianism model of studies of heart-mind. However, looking back at the Han dynasty system of Confucian classics, we will find that not only did Xunzi not be established as a doctoral officer like Mencius, but there was also no commentary such as Mencius Chapters. If we further examine the academic classics of the Han Dynasty, we will find that there are many collective acts of quoting, narrating and respecting Mencius, but few collective narratives of quoting, narrating and respecting Xunzi. But in fact, the many obvious Xunzi’s thinking structures in the classics of the Han dynasty and the repetition of Xunzi seem to have a hidden collective narrative structure, which may be related to the trauma caused by the Qin fire in the Han dynasty, and then died. The continuity structure of Qin-Legal-Xunzi concealed Xunzi, and the collective unconscious drive prompted the reconstruction of the Confucianism system for the other studies of Mencius as a model of other laws. That is to say, the so-called narrative of Mencius is in fact the structure of Xunzi and the heterogeneous studies of Mencius; that is to say, it can be said the trend of Mencius’ thought in the Han dynasty was in fact a manifestation of "false Mencius", a reconstruction of the new Confucianism system belonging to the Han dynasty after the fault of the Qin-Han genealogy—a heterogeneous studies of Mencius. Scholars in the Han Dynasty identified themselves as studies of Mencius, but in fact there was a broad expounding logic of studies of Xunzi. The narrative motif of Mencius, which is familiar to Chinese character cultural sites, was mostly created in the Han Dynasty, but it has a Xunzi’s thinking structure that is contrary to studies of Mencius. It was the development of this implicit structure that made the Han Dynasty a "double space for Confucianism"-both Mencius’ and Xunzi’s; neither Mencius’ nor Xunzi’s. |
