The remonstrating officials played an active social role on the political and cultural stages of the Middle Tang Dynasty. 谏官是中唐政治和文化舞台上活跃的社会角色之一。
This argument resulted from the mid-Tung dynasty intellectualities' will to defend the pure tradition of Confucianism against heterodoxy. 究其原因，此番论争实仍围绕著中唐以来儒者明道统以辟异端之思想。
