北宋后期的政治变动与陈瓘晚年由儒而佛的思想嬗变

陈瓘是北宋后期的重要政治人物,前期推崇王安石及其学术,经过从神宗、哲宗至徽宗的政治反复及其一贬再贬的政治遭遇,陈瓘对新党打击报复元祐党人及政治衰坏的现实深为不满,由此生发出对新党的严厉批判,并渐次深化为对王安石的政治学术观念的彻底否定,其思想也由儒学转向佛教。陈瓘的转变反映了士大夫对变法失败、党争不断的政治现实的深深失望,代表了北宋士大夫群体由前期的积极进取到后期消极颓废的变化历程。

Political Changes in the Late Northern Song Dynasty and Chen Guan's Thought Change from Admiring Confucianism to be Immersed in Buddhism in His Later Years

Chen Guan was an important politician in the late Northern Song Dynasty, he held in esteem Wang Anshi and his learning in the early years, but after the political reversal from the emperor Shenzong Zhezong to Huizong and the multiple relegation, Chen Guan was very dissatisfied with the new party''s political revenge to the Yuanyou party and the more steal political reality, so he criticized the new party sternly and gradually furthered to the level to neglect completely Wang Anshi''s political and academic thoughts, meanwhile his thought turned from Confucianism to Buddhism. Chen Guan''s change reflected the scholar-bureaucrat''s deep disappointment to the political reality that the reform failed and the party struggles continued, also represented the scholar-bureaucrat''s change course from the early enterprise to the late decadent.