Political Thoughts Comparison Research Between Qin Legalist School And Lv Shi Chun Qiu

Shang Yang’s political reform was the turning point of Qin State.It rapidly increased the national power of Qin State and made Qin united the whole nation eventually. Meanwhile legal thoughts with Qin culture appeared and formed Qin Legalist School which became the main ruling thoughts in Qin State. Before Qin united China, Lv Buwei was in power of Qin State. He compiled Lv Shi Chun Qiu and provided political theory guidance for uniting and ruling the nation in the future. Due to dramatic changes of history, Lv Buwei’s power system collapsed which directly made Lv Shi Chun Qiu become a history book only. However, in the view of political thoughts, compare Lv Shi Chun Qiu and Qin Legalist School is still meaningful. Both of them appeared in Qin State, and regarded strengthen monarch ruling and uniting the nation as the target. Even so, not all the political thoughts between them are the same. Qin Legalist School complied with the traditional culture of Qin State.It took the monarch as the core and neglected the common people’s interests, payed great attention in the interests of monarch and neglected morality, ruled agriculture and wars by cruel toture. Qin Legalist School prefered ruling the nationonly by law which directly made the law become a tool to satisfy the monarch’s interests. This rapidly promoted Qin State become prosperous and powerful. Lv Shi Chun Qiu, learned from Huang-Lao and Confucianism, put the rules of nature in the first place and objected the monarch’s power expended excessively. It emphasized how to balance the monarch’s, officer’s and the common people’s interests, how to lay equal stress on law and morality, how to ease class contradictions and maintain the harmony and peace of the society. Then achieve the goal to strengthen ruling the nation. Qin Legalist School propose to establish autocratic monarchy nation based on the system of prefectures and counties. To restrain monarch’s autarchy and achieve Lv Buwei’s personal political will, Lv Shi Chun Qiu propose to establish the nation based on the system of enfeoffment which goes against the trend of history. Qin legalist school was deeply influenced by warrior and utilitarianism culture of Qin State, emphasized to rapidly unite the whole nation by powerful force. Lv Shi Chun Qiu was influenced by the rules of nature, not only pay attention to unite the nation by force, but also the justice of wars and how to gain the support of the common people. Qin rule the nation by the thoughts of Qin legalist school which led Qin Dynasty only lasted two generations. By contrast, the political thoughts of Lv Shi Chun Qiu lasted from Qin Dynasty to Han Dynasty and had a far-reaching influence. In the view of political thought history heritage, the political thoughts of Qin Legalist School and Lv Shi Chun Qiu were the two tightly linked important parts of the foundation of two thousand years’ Chinese feudal ruling ideology. The uniting and ruling thoughts between Qin Legalist School and Lv Shi Chun Qiu deserve to be compared and research.