Xunzi (about 365438 BC+03 BC-238 BC), surnamed Qing, was born in Zhao at the end of the Warring States Period, and was called "Sun Qing" in the Han Dynasty because he avoided the name of Emperor Gaozu. He was a famous thinker, philosopher and educator in the pre-Qin period, a representative of Confucianism and a master of a hundred schools of thought contending.
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Xunzi criticized all the schools, but praised Confucius' thought as the best idea of governing the country. Xunzi claimed to be the heir of Confucius, especially the "foreign Wang Xue" who inherited Confucius.
From the standpoint of epistemology, he critically summarized and absorbed hundred schools of thought's theoretical viewpoints, formed a unique view of nature, morality and social history, and summarized the pre-Qin philosophy on this basis.