On Xun Zi's Thought Of The Rules

The thoughts of propriety and law was the core of the whole thoughts of Hsun Tzu. He made lots of original ideas .We can conclude that it was Hsun Tzu who was the first man particularly showing to propriety and law. Though there were many narrates ever. Hsun Tzu made a correct holding the condition at that time. He syncretized all kinds of schools, and made a propriety and law system in the end.The article looked back on the different views in history, then analysed the original,contents and functions,regulations,principle of propriety and law of Hsuntzu and so on. The author tries to give object cognition and opinion. Hsun Tzu tried to legalize when a man did violence to courtesy so that law became tool to stick up for etiquette.The thoughts of propriety and law of Hsun Tzu established the base of the evil nature of human. But he was an optimist. He believed in the function of education, only when education was ineffective then can be punished by law. The view regulated with his naturalism which he took for. Further more, he linked propriety and law with regulation to avoid blind worship. Of course, his thoughts carried on the traditional thinking pattern. He paid attention to observation, practicality of the whole, but analysis was neglected, abstract of individual. And all these resulted in propriety and law indiscrimination.