On the Similar Ideological Characteristics of the Various Schools of Thought and Their Exponents in Pre-Qin Times

Though the ideologies of the vanous schools of thought and their exponents it; Pre-Qin times are very complicated, the similar ideological characteristics are clearly found by investigating the relevant documents. It embodies three concrete features: establishing their theoretical systems by getting to the heart of politics, exclusive tendency in the sphere of learning and psychology of restoring the ancients in the course of proving their theories. The emerging of these ideological features relates to the cultural heritage in the Western Zhou Dynasty, i.e. learning of officials of Imperial Court as a kind of cultural monopoly form of aristocrat.