Huang Zongxi is an important representative of the Enlightenment School in17th century. His Ming Yi to Be Visited was called "The Book of Enlightenment" by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, representatives of modern reformists. In Ming Yi Waiting for a Visit, Huang Zongxi inherited Mencius' people-oriented thought of "valuing the people but neglecting the monarch" and put forward "Who owns the world?" Such new topics as "the rule of law precedes the rule of man", "right and wrong in the world is not in school" and so on. He lashed out at the feudal autocratic monarchy, thinking that "the monarch belongs to himself for the benefit of the world and to the people for the harm of the world" and came to the conclusion that autocratic monarchy is "the great harm of the world". Huang Zongxi's development from people-oriented to democratic thought promoted the political proposition that reformists advocated civil rights and implemented constitutional monarchy at the end of19th century. History has proved that during the May 4th Movement, the reformists advocated civil rights, Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, and democracy and science were all influenced by Huang Zongxi's democratic enlightenment thought. Even in contemporary China, Huang Zongxi's thoughts are still of practical significance to the world outlook, the view of rule of law, the view of social public servants and the view of power restriction.

Huang Zongxi (1610.9.24-1695.8.12), Han nationality, is from Yuyao County, Shaoxing District, Zhejiang Province. The word "Taichong" means "De Bing" and "Nanlei", and it is also called "Lizhou Old Man", "Lizhou Mountain Man", "Clear Water Fisherman", "Yucheng Cave Master", "Dean of Double Waterfalls" and "Mitchell" in ancient libraries. Scholars call him "Mr. Lizhou". Confucian classics, historians, thinkers, geographers, writers and educators in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Huang Zunsu, the eldest son of "Seven Gentlemen of Lindong". Together with Gu and Wang Fuzhi, they are called "three great thinkers in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties". Together with his younger brothers Huang Zongyan and Huang Zonghui, they are called "Three Yellow Rivers in East Zhejiang"; Together with Gu, Fang Yizhi and Wang Fuzhi, he is also known as "the five masters in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties" and is known as "the father of China's enlightenment". And Li Yong, Shaanxi, and Sun Qifeng, Rongcheng, Zhili, are also called "three great families".

Huang Zongxi put forward the democratic thought of "the world is the mainstay and the monarch is the guest". He said that "the rule of chaos in the world is not the rise and fall of a surname, but the sadness and joy of the whole people", and advocated replacing the emperor's "one family law" with "the law of the world", thus limiting the autocratic monarchy and safeguarding the people's basic rights. Huang Zongxi's political ideas attacked the feudal autocratic monarchy system, which was of great significance and played a positive role in promoting the anti-authoritarian struggle in the future.

Huang Zongxi has profound knowledge, profound thoughts and rich works. In his life, he wrote more than 50 kinds of works with more than 300 volumes, among which the most important ones are Ming Confucian Case, Song Yuan Xue Case, Ming Yi Waiting for an Interview, Mencius' Teacher's Commentary, Burial System or Question, Breaking Evil, Thinking about the Old Record, Yi Shu Lun, Hai and Chao Xing Lu. [2]