How should we evaluate the traditional mode of thinking in ancient China today?

Since the Han Dynasty, which revered only Confucianism, the foundation of stable feudal rule was gradually formed with internal law and external Confucianism.

The consequences of striking the hundred schools for the maintenance of the stability of the rule is powerful, especially since the Song dynasty after the imperial power and Confucianism interdependent mutual constraints, but for the qualification of the mode of thinking has gradually embarked on the path of idealism, whether Zhu Xi's objective idealism or Wang Yangming's subjective idealism, restricting methodology emphasizing the theory of knowledge

The main reason for the formation of such is that Confucianism in the Maintaining the legitimacy of imperial power while limiting the two important weapons of thought of imperial power, the way of heaven is always and ancestral family law, and the way of heaven is always often often is established with the Confucian theory of the foundation of the standards of the ruler and the minister, limiting the mode of thinking can only be to the mode of idealism, if you emphasize the results of the observation of the objective materialism will inevitably lose the interpretation of the imperial power as well as its own constraints on the legitimacy of the imperial power.

While Europe can realize such opportunities as the Renaissance in the late period, because of its lack of unitary state, less constraints on advanced ideas, especially the traditional church forces to limit the idea of confrontation with the feudal state so that there is room for new ideas to survive and develop