Sima Guang Social Thought

Nowadays, the overall arrangement of the characteristic socialism cause of our country has developed into a quaternity of the social economic construction, Political construction, cultural construction and social construction. And the ideology of our Chinese social has been arousing great concern of the academe. Under the background that the tendency of the reformation have been strengthened, with the improvement of the intellects' status, the promotion of the subjectival consciousness of the "corporative administration", the flourishing of the social economy, the domestic worries and oversea troubles of the Song Dynasty, and the overwhelming social responsibility and historical sense of mission in literary intelligentisia stimulated by the rejuvenation of Confucianism, the social thoughts of the Sima Guang sprout out immediately. Regarding the construction of the basic unit of social organization as the inserting point to govern the country, in the genealogy, lessons at the family rules, worship and other aspects , Sima Guang enriched and developed the clan system of the Song Dynasty. He attached importance to family education and the quality of ethnic minority through highlight outstanding figures in the family to conduct education and clan cohesion, and focus on the spirit of ancestors inherited in order to strengthen the building of family tradition and stabilize the country order. Under the guidance of "Doctrine of the Mean" philosophy and the governing ideas of the traditional Confucian thought--"Morality as the major while penalty as the auxiliary", Sima Guang put forward the idea of "Wangba same","loyal and inhibit monarch", "emphasize ritual and law". Advocated the integrated use of both ritual and law, strict and loose, both hard and soft. Under the influence of the tradition Confucian ideal thoughts of society --"Great Harmony" and "Well-off", Sima Guang emphasized the conformity over and over and debugged each kind of social relations, drawed an ideal future of the ruling class , the relationships among Song and the other countries, how to keep wealthy and security of Song Dynasty., which could be feature by bright politics, Social harmony, Chinese and foreign peace, people affluent and the state's strength . Compared with the literary intelligentsia's socialist of the same dynasty, the social thought of Sima Guang was know morality, paid attention to education and social harmony. He advocated kindness, to people, his social thoughts was more steady than innovational, and tend to Conservative. And the same time it show features of universal, realistic and for people. It also played a positive role in promoting the recuperating social relations and in reconstructing the order of Nothern Song Dynasty, which possessed great pioneering and practical value on constructing a harmonious society nowadays.