先秦儒家的民族观

先秦儒家民族思想的核心内容包括“华夷之辨”和“用夏变夷”两个方面。孔子“裔不谋夏,夷不乱华”主张,是“华夷之辨”思想的具体反映,它具有以华夏为中心甚至歧视夷狄民族的色彩,同时又具有反对外来干涉、侵扰的性质。孟子对儒家民族思想最重要的发展,是明确提出了“用夏变夷”的概念。而《公羊传》中的“大一统”、“尊王攘夷”和“内其国而外诸夏,内诸夏而外夷狄”,则反映了公羊派的民族观以及处理夷夏关系的基本原则和方针。

The Confucianists' Views About Nationalities in the Pre - Qin Period

The core and basic content of the Confucianists' thought about nationalities in the pre-Qin period includes "the distinctions of Chinese and the barbarians" and "assimilating the barbarians with Chinese civilization".Confucius' "the barbarians shouldn't invade China,and the barbarians shouldn't enter into China" is the concrete reflections of the thought "the distinctions of Chinese and the barbarians".It regards China as the centre and even discriminates against the barbarians,and at the same time,it includes the properties objecting to outside interferences and invasion.The most important develepment for the Confucianists' nationality thought is the concept " assimilating the barbarians with Chinese civilization "which put forward by Mencius.And in Biography Gongyang ,"the Great Unity","honoring the king and resisting the barbarians" and "kingdom being their own,China being others',and China being their own,barbarous nationality being others'" have reflected the Gongyang scholar's nationality view including the basic principle and policy to deal with the relations between barbarous nationalities in China.