Dong Zhongshu, Guang Chuan (Dongjiazhuang Village, Guang Chuan University, Jingxian County, Hebei Province), was a philosopher of the Western Han Dynasty. Dong Zhongshu experienced three dynasties and the heyday of the Western Han Dynasty. He is about 75 years old.
Dong Zhongshu was a doctor during the reign of Emperor Jing of Han Dynasty, teaching rams in the Spring and Autumn Period. In the first year of Yuan Guang in Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu issued a letter to seek the strategy of governing the country. In his famous Kai Tak Countermeasures, Dong Zhongshu combined Confucianism with the needs of the society at that time, absorbed the theories of other schools, and created a new ideological system with Confucianism as the core, which won the appreciation of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. He systematically put forward such theories as "the feeling of heaven and man", "the unity of heaven and man" and "the skill of six arts, which is not the skill of Confucius, all have their own ways. If you don't advance, you will stop". His research takes the Confucian patriarchal clan system as the core, mixed with the theory of yin and yang and five elements, and runs through theocracy, monarchical power, patriarchal clan system and husband power, forming an imperial theological system.
Based on Yang Gong Chunqiu, Dong Zhongshu combined the religious view of heaven with the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements since Zhou Dynasty, absorbed the thoughts of Legalists, Taoists and Yin-Yang School, and established a new ideological system, which became the official ruling philosophy of Han Dynasty. He gave a systematic answer to a series of philosophical, political, social and historical questions raised by the society at that time, and put forward important Confucian theories such as the feeling between heaven and man, the three cardinal guides and the five permanents.
Dong Zhongshu's works are numerous, with more than 100 articles and words handed down from generation to generation. There are still two volumes of articles in Three Strategies for Heaven and Man, Scholars, Spring and Autumn Stories and All China.