Dong Zhongshu's cultural and educational policy of ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone is an epoch-making historical event in the history of China. This policy, almost followed by later rulers, lasted for two thousand years, and had a far-reaching impact on the development of China's cultural and educational undertakings and the formation of the common psychological quality of all ethnic groups.

For this important historical event, most ancient historians believe that it was the joint efforts of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Dong Zhongshu, which was the need to establish a unified empire and the need to compete for academic status. Therefore, the three strategies and questions hit it off. In fact, the occurrence of this major historical event, like other major historical events, has its profound social background. It is not difficult to reveal the truth as long as we go deep into the historical background at that time.

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Dong Zhongshu put forward the idea of "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" in the first year of Yuanguang (BC 134), and it was implemented in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. According to the biography of Dong Zhongshu, the original words proposed by Dong Zhongshu were "Expose and criticize Confucius and suppress a hundred schools of thought." In Ji Zan of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it is recorded that the practice of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is to "oust a hundred schools of thought and respect the Six Classics alone".

This thought is not the true face of Confucianism in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Instead, it combines some thoughts of Taoism, Legalism and Yin-Yang and Five Elements, embodies the characteristics of "compatibility" and "development" of Confucianism, and is a new idea that keeps pace with the times. It maintained the feudal ruling order and deified the absolute monarchy, so it was highly praised by the ancient feudal rulers of China and became the orthodox and mainstream thought of China traditional culture for more than two thousand years.

In the modern history of China, Yi Baisha (1886- 192 1), a famous thinker at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, first revealed that "a hundred schools of thought were ousted and Confucianism was respected exclusively", and it was published in 19 16 in New Youth magazine. ?

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