Xun Kuang And The End Of "Hundreds Schools Of Thought Contend" Period

Xun Kuang is an important representative of Confucian in pre-Qin period of China,his theory was based on the Confucian theory,and had absorbed the essence of other thinkers in the Warring States period.He unified the pre-Qin academic and set up the system of Confucian ideas,finally became a representative who integrated hundreds of schools of thought in the Warring States period.How did Xun Zi inherited and absorbed the essence of other thinkers critically, basing on the Confucian theory?Why could Xun Kuang finish setting up the system of Confucian ideas and unifying the pre-Qin academic?They are the main problems that this article studies.Therefore, the core of this article is discussing the relations between Xun Zi and the pre-Qin academic.Now I will introduce the viewpoints of the article in summary.There are three parts, inside,outside and subjection.It is reaserched and discoursed that how Xun Zi critically inherited the pre-Qin academic in the inside part.First, because the property of Xun Zi's theory and his school of thought had been argued since the ancient time,with studying and debating kinds of statements about the property, it is brought forth that the property of Xun Zi's theory and his school of thought was recognized through the whole of the book Xun Zi and the main ideas of Xun Kuang,instead of simply according to some specificity of his theory.Then I investigate in three parts,the relation between Xun Zi and Confucian from the book of Xun Zi ,the relation between Xun Zi's ideas and Confucianism,Xun Zi and the inheriting Confucianism.Ultimately,Xun Zi is concerned as an important scholar who had contributed a lot to the development of Confucianism.His contribution is irreplaceable to making Confucian books become classic and spread.The relation between Xun Zi's theory and the pre-Qin academic is discussed in the outside part.First,the meaning of study and method in pre-Qin document is inspected.Secondly,the process of the pre-Qin academic is deliberated ,mainly pointing it out that Xun Zi had unified hundreds of schools of thought because he could combine study and method,which also could be found out from the division among his students.Thirdly, the phenomenone is debated that different scholars Xun Zi criticized placed emphasis on different aspect ,such as Opposing Twelve Scholars,andJiebi,Tianlun,the former focused on the bad political influence of scholars,however,the later proposed criticism according to schools of thought.Then, the relation between Xun Zi's theory and the scholars who influenced on Xun Zi and the culture area of Qi,Chu,Qin is discussed.When it concerns the scholars(they are classed as scholars of Qin culture) who were influenced by Xun Zi,it is considered that Xun Zi was the first scholar who made study and method unified,but some of his students broke the unification later.In the subjection part,the theory of Xun Zi is defined firstly,then it can be seen that the theory included the reaserch of Xun Zi himself,the studies of the book of Xun Zi,the whole achievement of studies on Xun Zi's theory.They are no doubt a process of history.the study on the theory of Xun Zi is divided into two phases,before morden times and after morden times.In recent years,with waking up of scholars in our country and the introducing of westen science and culture,the range of studies on Xun Zi's theory has been enlarged,and finally,the completement of the system of Xun Zi's theory has been promoted.The studies on the history of the development of Xun Zi's theory is an important part of the studies on scholars.In the last century Luo Genze,who was a main representive of the school which distinguished the ancient documents,had proposed the studies on the history of the development of scholars'theories.They are quested and reaserched roughly in this article.With unscrambling these problems, the deficiency of the studies on Xun Zi's theory and what important work had been done by the forescholars would be found out.As a Confucian master,Xun Kuang built up his own system of the Confucian ideas without limiting to the Confucian theories.His academic could be divided into two phases,they are the period when he stayed in Jixia of Qi and the period when he lived in Laning of Chu.Therefore,as one of the represetative terminators of the"Hundreds Schools of Thought Contend"period,Xun Kuang integrated hundreds schools of thought in a different way contrasting to Han Fei ,History by Lv,and the school of"Huanglao".