Dong Zhongshu's Wangdao Political Thought

In the early Western Han Dynasty,the West Han Dynasty faced the dilemma of internal and external troubles.At that time,the Western Han ruling class faced three problems: one was to discuss the legitimacy and rationality of the Western Han regim;the other was the political system construction in the Western Han Dynasty;It is the problem of the consolidation and development of the Western Han Dynasty.Under this background,Dong Zhongshu's political thought came into being on the basis of the sense of heaven and man,and gradually became favored by the rulers,which played an important role in the social development of the Western Han Dynasty and the construction of the political system.Dong Zhongshu's thought of heaven and human beings is an important part of the Western Han Dynasty's political and ideological system,and plays a pivotal role in the reshaping and development of Western Han politics.The thought of heaven and humanity originated in the pre-Qin period,until the Western Han Dynasty as an important political guiding ideology played a real role in the monarch and the people.Dong Zhongshu constantly learns the important thoughts of the predecessors on the relationship between heaven and man and integrates them.Dong Zhongshu's thoughts on the induction of the heavens are mainly based on Confucius and Mencius' s thoughts.They use the laws of the yin and yang five elements to explain the way,inheriting and developing the important thoughts of the predecessors.The core of Wang Dao's politics is to maintain the rule of the royal power,which is the social ideal of the outer king envisioned by Confucianism.Dong Zhongshu is faced with the problem of how to explain the legitimacy of the Han Dynasty's politics and how the Han Dynasty's ideology and culture are unified.Therefore,he takes Confucianism as his basic position and widely absorbs various ideas such as Taoism,Mohism,Yinyang and Yangjiao,and takes the heavenly induction,the yin and yang,the ritual law,the morality and the law as the main theories for expounding the political prophecy of the kingdom,thus constructing the kingdom.Wang Dao's political thoughts,such as ritual and law.This political thought and the way in which Wang Dao politics was elaborated played an important role in the development of Chinese feudal politics in the future.Dong Zhongshu's political ideology of the king has laid the ideological foundation for further proposing "a slap in the hundred homes and respecting Confucianism alone." Confucianism is no longer just a kind of school-like thought,but an official philosophy of the Western Han Dynasty.Confucianism became an effective way for the rulers to govern the country.It not only provides the supreme authoritative discourse of the kingship,but also effectively limits the royal power from the perspective of heaven.Dong Zhongshu's thoughts on "disaster sentiment" and "Qu Jun and stretching the sky" allowed the monarch to act inaccordance with the original intention of Heaven,thus playing a good role in protecting the people.Dong Zhongshu's political thought not only provided a theoretical basis for the reform of the Western Han Dynasty,but also proposed guiding ideology and specific measures in politics,economy and culture,and provided strong support for the consolidation and development of the social,political and economic development of the Western Han Dynasty.