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With the development of the feudal economy, the feudal society of China transit from early to late during Sui and Tang dynasties. On the fields of thought and culture, the Confucianism no longer standed the dominated status because of the introduction of Buddhism and the development of Taoism, and ideological field of this period showed the coexist situation of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. In such a situation, if some Confucians wanted to restore the orthodox position of Confucianism, they had to develop and transform the original Confucianism to meet the development need of society at that time. Lived in the turning point of this period, Wang Tong made a lot of new innovative views according to the change of time on the basis of actively promoted the doctrine of Chou Kung and Confucius.Most works of Wang Tong were lost; today we can get the information about him mainly on the basis of "Zhongshuo" which recorded the mind of his words and deeds. In addition, we could also find his information from the scattered records of successive thinkers. As long circulating, although there are traces of tampering by descendants, the basic idea of "Zhongshuo" still belongs to Wang Tong himself. This article intends to explore the value of its academic by analyzing the ideological system and mining the deep connotation of "Zhongshuo", and at last to be sure his historical contributions for the whole process of confucianism transformation in the Sui and Tang dynasties and his position and influence in the history of Chinese confucianism.The main view of this article is that on the basis of the concentrated reflection about the inheritance of learning both sound in theory and practice in Confucian, Wang Tong exerted some new thoughts for the new age topics, such as human nature, instincts and benevolent government enlightenment thoughts, most of his propositions were became the core category of the Tang and SongMing dynasties' idealist phylosophy. Especially noteworthy is Wang Tong's issues about the relationship among three religions at that time, which reflected the broad horizon and large mind of the Confucian. In the history of Confucianism, Wang Tong is one of key figures in the Sui and Tang changing period, and he is also one of important characters in continued confucianism. His ideas were indeed played a historical role in connecting link between the preceding and the historical Confucianism.Specifically, the body of this article is divided into these following six chapters: The first chapter is the preface of this article. It mainly stated this paper's writing origin and purpose, determined the structure of full-text and writing scheme according to the analysis of the current situation of research at home and abroad. I am aimed to outline the contours of Wang Tong's thoughts and grasp his basic connotation, to be sure the value of Wang Tong's thoughts and his "Zhongshuo" at last, on the foundation of predecessors' achievements with historical facts.The second chapter is Wang Tong and "Zhongshuo". In this part we introduced the basic situation of Wang Tong's family and his disciples respectively, with his other relevant writings as well. It is focus on the analyses to the shape of the book"Zhongshuo" and its content. It illuminated that Wang Tong's deep ideological origins and his own ceaseless efforts played an important role in inheriting and spreading Confucianism. The record "Zhongshuo" which compiled by Wang Tong's disciples is the main basis from which we can get information to research his thoughts today. Across the book is full of Wang Tong's learning on both sounds in theory and practice with the core of the golden mean, which gave a great contribution to the idealist philosophy of Tang and SongMing dynasties.The third chapter is the analysis to the ideology system of "Zhongshuo" about the inside saint. In this part we separately discussed Wang Tong's views about the relationship of heaven and human, the exploration of truth and the pursuit of human nature, uprighting our hearts and restoring the instincts and the ideal personality with the core of the golden mean. Wang Tong saw inheriting and developing the Confucianism as his own obligation, actively promoting the Confucianism of inside saint thoughts, and with the methodological principle of the golden mean, he had the courage to emphasize the dominant position of human and think highly of human values in the society which was filled with the "Heaven and Man" and divination superstition. He put forward many new ideas on the self-cultivation of inside saint in the new era, and most of which later became the core category of Neo-Confucianism of Song and Ming dynasties.Wang Tong's development on the Confucianism of inside saint, adapted to the development need of the changing feudal social to some extent.The fourth chapter is the analysis to the ideology system of "Zhongshuo" about the learning in practice.In this part it elaborated Wang Tong's social and political thoughts of "promoting benevolent government" and social enlightenment thoughts of putting governance in the education, including his views of benevolent government, righteousness and profit, and enlightenment thoughts. Wang Tong's benevolent government thoughts included the proper way of emperors and the officials'rule, first moral and later punishment with attaching importance to morality.It also contained the code of ethics promoted by him, such as humanity, righteousness, rite, intelligence,and trustworthiness.It involved some problems of the feudal system as well. Wang Tong's benevolent government and political thought was mainly reflected in his writings and lecturing activities, combined his teaching activities with the political thought, putting governance in the education, which played a key role in the formation of Confucian orthodoxy in hefen",and also had an important enlightenment in the formation of the idealist philosophy in Song and Ming dynasties. In particular, his famous "three religions can be one" thought which proposed for the relationships of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism,complied with the needs of Sui and Tang ideological change, expanded the space and enriched the connotation of Confucianism.The fifth chapter is about the academic value, historical status and influence of "Zhongshuo". Wang Tong's thoughts were the inheritance and development of Confucianism which was reflected from "Zhongshuo". His ideas maintained the traditional spirit of Confucianism, and he also got some innovations on this basis; he was the heir to the traditional Confucian, and he was also enlightenment man in Sui and Tang dynasties changing ideology.Later, his ideas also pointed out the direction to the Neo-Confucian. He played a role of connecting link between the preceding and the following in the history of Chinese Confucianism.The sixth chapter is the summary and conclusion of this paper.Correspond with the previous content; we reaffirmed the academic value and the historical status of Wang Tong and the Ideology system of "Zhongshuo".