A Study On Jia Yi' Law-Ruling Thoughts

JiaYi lived in the time when Xi Han firstly established,The theme of his thoughts was to supply a set of feasible idea of ruling country for Han Dynasty's lasting and steady rule.This was the way of ruling country with law-ruling as the chief and ritual-ruling as the auxiliary,which was the result of his constantly pondering the lesson of the perish of the Qin Dynasty.his thought of the social reality of the preliminary period of Han Dynasty and his fully inheriting the Legalists law-ruling thoughts.JiaYi's law-ruling thoughts included the following contents:largely establishing vassal in order to diminish their power,the strategy of illuminating cicada and Five Bait,establishing institution.JiaYi's law-ruling thoughts had both definite teacher origin and rich academic fountain.His law-ruling thoughts mainly originate in the law-ruling thoughts of the Legalists in Pre-Qin times and Xunzi'thoughts which combined ritual and law.He fully inherited the Legalists'law-ruling thoughts in Pre-Qin times such as Shang Yang,Shen Buhai,Shen Dao and Han Fei,deeply been influenced by Xunzi'thoughts which combined ritual and law.On the basis of this,he further reformed these thoughts and absorbed those reasonable sections in order to reconstruct his own thought system.JiaYi lived the time when Xi Han had established country over twenty years,its power was getting more and more strong,but at the same time it had exposed the new social oroblem. JiaYi soberly realized the social situation of that time and the limitation of the ruling thought of the Huang Lao's strategy" wuwei" governing.He deeply pondered these problem.As a provident statesman,JiaYi aimed at the main social and political problem of the early Han Dynasty,He, according to the Law'point,put forward a series of solutions to the political and social problems of the early Han Dynasty, and made a great contribution to the political steadiness and institution construction of the early Han Dynasty.It is obvious that JiaYi's law-ruling thoughts is a set of integrated ideolog ical system, which is very important in China's history of politics and ideology.