A Study On Governing Thought In Lv's Spring And Autumn Annals

Lv's Spring And Autumn Annals is also called Lv Lan.It rolled up 26 volumes,160 chapters and about 200,000 words.Han·YiWenZhi regards it as a work of miscellaneous thoughts.It was written by 3000 knowledgeable men who were elected from Lv Buwei's (the premier of Pre-Qin) disciples. It followed the trend of the cultural unification in the last period of the Warring States Period .The book intends to make a big-scaled systematic adaptation of the various schools of thoughts.It is a historical masterpiece whose significance can be spread through the times.There are always different arguments on Lv's Spring And Autumn Annals and its author since it was completely finished. But there is no doubt that LvBuwei was an outstanding politician and thinker in the last period of the Warring States Period and the strong impression on the following society made by the book'precious value. Though Lv's Spring And Autumn Annals involves lots of fields, such as politics, economy, military, agriculture, medicine, philosophy, education and music and so on,its theme is about political theory. In this article ,I will focus on the governing thought and analyze it from the aspects of politics, economy, culture, military,social security and contenporary value in details.The political thought of Lv's Spring And Autumn Annals is the important point of the article, including three aspects: man-oriented thought , thought of the monarch and the ministers ,thought of benevolent and lawful government. The book inherited and developed the Chinese traditional man-oriented thoughts, and supported a further theoretical evidences. Its terminal goal is to solve how to utilize the mass. As the monarch and the subjects ,they have to cultivate mental and moral characters,be impartial to everything, seek for and use the talent. On the choice of governing policies ,they claimed benevolent and law government: benevolent government betrays the man-oriented thought, and the latter is the basis of the former; benevolent is based on law, and the law gives a impulse to the benevolent.The thought of economy contains the thoughts of agriculture and other economic thoughts, and the agricultural thought is the key element in this chapter .It includes taking the agriculture as the fundamental, the outlook of agricultural development and the agricultural management. In order to increase the social measure, he advocated putting the agriculture, the industry and commerce on quite level, without giving priority to agriculture while curbing the industry and business.The tax is equal to everyone and special tax is used for special field. In the cultural thought, the cultural policies, educational thought, music and custom civilization thought will be discussed in this part. Its cultural aim is"harmony but different"and it advocates the human spirits that takes the man as fundamental, emphasizing talent , respecting teacher and focusing teaching, and emphasizes the civilization of music and custom.The military thought and theory is their conclusions on the experience on the war, to some extent it displays the nature of the war, and has the certain theory depth. It criticizes the thought of"giving up military"and advocates"the war of justice",and puts forwards some worthy views on the strategies on commanding military.The thought of social security is based on the man-oriented thought, and developing agriculture is the material basis of carrying out the social security and social salvation. According to the seasons and times, social salvation should be arranged in time.Because the conflicts of political views and the different background of historical cultures, his proposal couldn't put into practice, however, the proposition was responded by practicing in Han Dynasty and later ages. The reformation mental consciousness serving as a link between past and future , the breadth of mind being tolerant of erudite culture, attaching the importance of person to the harmonious ideas, which are embodied in Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals .It still has great influence and value that can be drawn in contemporary era.