论中国古代天文学向占星学的转折——秦汉思想聚变的缘起

中国古代天文学在春秋末战国初发生了向占星学的根本转折。这一转折支配并影响了当时的中国思想、学术和政治。在汉代经学中,不但程度不同地羼杂了这种占星学与阴阳五行混合的思想,甚至在根本上受到了占星学观念的支配。其中,观象于天,法类于地的占星学思想成了《易传》的核心观念,而《春秋》公羊学大家董仲舒据此提出的天人感应学说,在中国历史上影响巨大而深远。由此可见,占星学对秦汉以后的中国思想、学说和政治所产生的影响是不可估量的。

The Turn from Astronomy to Astrology in Ancient China: Origin of the Dramatic Changes in Thought in the Qin and the Han Dynasties

There was a dramatic turn from astronomy to astrology in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States,which exerted much ideological,cultural and academic influence on ancient China.The classic books of Confucianism of the Han dynasty embody some elements of astrology,and some are full of astrological ideas,of which the core concept of Essays on The Book of Changes and the ideas of Dong Zhongshu,a great scholar on The Spring and Autumn Annals,are most influential.It can be concluded tha...