The Conflicts Between The Secular Thought And The Religious Thought From The Spring And Autumn Period To The Period Of Warring States

In the Spring and Autumn Period,the pillars of the Zhou Dynasty---the patriarch system and the enfeoffment system tended to the disintegration gradually. And the religious system standing on the basis also existed gradually to collapse.While the development of the secular thought had been greatly. Along with the decline of the Zhou Dynasty,"scholars",the class of the knowledge,obtained the liberation . Their thoughts and the speech became more free. In the relationship between religious and secular, they had extensive discussions with a view to build their own ideal of social order.In the Spring and Autumn period, the Zhou Dynasty had been weakened,however, the emperor was still nominally a"common leader"."Heaven"was still the center of the religious system. The shackles of religion tended to relax.And the secular thought had the great development.Atheism, Materialist view of nature, Rational ideas of humanism,and minben idea emerged together.In the Spring and Autumn Period,the relations between the secular thought and the religious thought mainly displayed for the contradictions and the impacts.The secular thought impacted the dominance of the God ,the authority of the Heaven, as well as the control of the gods on earth, and even the existence of the gods .In the process of the impact to the religious thought, the secular thought was carrying out the mission which abolished the old and established the new. The political function of religion gradually emerged. The secular trend of the religious showed. The original sense of the religious system was on the dead-end path.In the Period of Warring States,the relations between the secular thought and the religious thought mainly displayed for the confrontation and integration of both.On the one hand,atheism and moral thought beolng to the secular thought continued to attack the religious thought.And the minben idea sinking deep into the hearts of the people appeared"human's strength".On the other hand,the secular thought and the religious thought gradually blended.They constituted a new system of ideology mysticism. On the question"heaven", Mencius inherited Confucius' thought.He didn't denied the function of the"heaven",too. This became the premise of"Harmony between Heaven and Humanity".Mozi admitted the existence of"Ghost"and used it to restrain the world.The scholars of Yin and Yang and Five Elements promoted the idea of mysticism,however, they served for the real politic. Mystical color of their theory had the long-term influence to later official religious thought and the folk religious thought.