Conception Of History Differences And Similarities Between Pre-Qin Confucianism And Taoism

The Pre-Qin period, especially in the Spring and Autumn warring states, the history of our country's first period of ideological emancipation. According to Pre-Qin confusion of the social situation at that time, the scholars put forward different ideas, which also contains a rich history of their ideas. Pre-Qin Confucianists recognize that human beings are natural attributes and social attributes of the combination, and should take advantage of music's natural and cultural attributes of the adjustment for the Liyue culture as the core of the development of human civilization; at the same time they make light of a destiny but highly value consciousness of the outside world,, in particular, the moral of King for the rise and fall of the history ; For the changes in the approach to history, they recognize the historical change and social progress, on the basis of grasping the historical changes, to build a "common ground" of the Confucian ideal social model.Pre-Qin Taoism is that people obey the natural attributes, return to the state of the " small territory and population ", the implication is that the scale of social awareness of the deep-seated; At the same time, in the face of social and historical development of abuses, Taoism criticize "youwei ",and put forward " wuweierzhi"; on the changes in the approach to history, they don't deny the progress of history, the conception of history of them is on how to run a country for the rulers , base on showing loving care for the living condition of commons. On the whole, the Pre-Qin Confucianism and Taoism have different ideas on thinking of the core elements of social development, the decisive force of social development and social and historical understanding of changes. Confucianists respecte Liyue culture, and held that King is a key factor in social development; and Taoist culture opposed to Liyue culture, and hold that human being should obey nature,and don't disturb the normal order of the society ; the Confucian treat Liyue culture as the emergence of the performance of the progress of human civilization, but Taoism insist that the society of human being should back to the natural state without any limitation. However, the two also have in common view of history. They all recognize the value and recognize the history of change, are longing for a harmonious and stable social order.