汉宣帝凤字年号文化背景与政治意图考论
On the Cultural Background and Political Intention of the Phoenix Used by Emperor Xuan of Han in Reign Titles

以汉宣帝为例，从天人感应的视角，探讨了帝王年号用凤的原因。“凤”的最初涵义是吉祥之鸟，帝王年号用凤的思想根源是以“万物有以相连”理论产生的天人感应，而汉宣帝之所以用“凤”作为自己执政年号，主要是在自己执政诸多不利的情况下，从舆论上证明自己继承帝位的正当性，赢得民心，粉饰太平，同时为自己心灵得到慰藉，于是采用了“五凤”作为自己执政的年号。
Taking Emperor Xuan in Han as an example, this paper studies the reason why he used Phoenix as a reign title from the perspective of mutual interaction between nature and person. The original meaning of “Phoenix” is an auspicious bird, and Emperor Xuan used Phoenix as his reign title exactly because he believed in mutual interaction between nature and person which was based on the theory of “everything is related”. Emperor Xuan used “phoenix” as his reign title to prove his legal identity and won more support from people, since he was caught in overwhelming difficulties at his reign. Meanwhile, he also got thoroughly comforted from this title. Therefore, he used “Wufeng”(which means five phoenixes) as his reign title.