《淮南子》所代表的汉初道家思想不同于先秦时期的道家思想。先秦道家思想是隐士的思想,消极、退避、悲观等色彩在所难免,汉初道家思想却是一个刚刚建立的、处于上升中的大帝国的治国术,因而积极向上、充满了对现实世界的关注。作为《淮南子》主导思想的道家思想之所以会发生这种变化是因为作者有意使道家思想从方外走向方内。 The thought of Taoism in early Han Dynasty represented by Huainanzi differs from that of Taoism in pre-Qin period. Pre-Qin Taoism is a hermit’s thought. Negative, evasive, pessimistic and other colors are unavoidable. In the early Han Dynasty, Taoism was a just established and rising empire that ruled over the country. Therefore, it was positive and full of realism attention. The reason why the Taoist ideology, as the dominant ideology of “Huainanzi”, occurs because of the author’s intention to move the Taoist ideas from the outside to the inside.