On The Two Forms Of The Thoughts Of Regarding The People As Foundation In Ancient China

The thoughts of Regarding the People as Foundation is an important part of ancient Chinese political thought,and its core point of view is to advocate the people as the purpose and foundation of political rule.The controversy in the academic circles on the people-based thought is mainly divided into two views: One is that the so-called "people-oriented" people-oriented thought is essentially the "monarch" which uses the "emphasis on the people" as a tool of "monarchy dictatorship".The second is to emphasize that the core feature of the people-oriented thought is "people-oriented",but think that the people-oriented thought is embodied as the sprouting of democratic thought,which is confused with the "people’s sovereignty" advocated by democratic thought.The current academic research on the people-based thought has made the inherent contradiction between "emphasis on the people" and "respecting the monarch" in the people-based thought gradually revealed.The core content of the research on the thoughts of Regarding the People as Foundation should be analyzed in combination with the specific political reality in different periods and the different characteristics of the thoughts of Regarding the People as Foundation on this basis.This article believes that the Thoughts of Regarding the People as Foundation in Ancient China are divided into two forms,one is the primitive people-oriented thoughts in the pre-Qin period,and the other is the king-powered people-oriented thoughts after Qin and Han.The people-oriented thought in the pre-Qin period advocated that the interests of the people are the foundation of political rule.After Qin and Han Dynasties,with the formation and strengthening of the centralized monarchy system,the people-oriented thought was transformed into the ideological tool of" monarchy ",with obvious" The tendency of"respecting the monarch" tries to replace the core connotation of the originalpeople-oriented thought of "people’s will is god’s will" with " emperor’s will is god’s will" in essence.However,the combination of people’s thought and monarchy is a specific historical phenomenon.The inherent logic of non-people-oriented thinking.People-oriented thinking always advocates "people-oriented",but in the level of political practice,the rulers and thinkers after Qin and Han took "respecting the people" as political rule because they advocated "respecting the monarch".Ideological tools.The concepts of "the country is shared by the people" and "the people are the fundamental purpose of political rule" emphasized by the original people-based ideas can still reflect the modern political value of people-based ideas.