In the cultural and educational policy of the Han Dynasty, from the emphasis on "the study of Huang Lao" in the early Han Dynasty to the formal establishment of the macro policy of "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a historic change was completed.

Since then, "exclusive respect for Confucianism" has become the general policy of cultural education pursued by later emperors, which has had a far-reaching impact on the development of feudal cultural education in later generations.