The representative figure of pre-Qin people-oriented public opinion view is

The tradition of people-oriented public opinion originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the representative figure was the political thinker of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

The pre-Qin period experienced Xia, Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Warring States and other historical stages. The narrow research scope of pre-Qin history includes the period from China's entry into civilization to the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, mainly referring to the history of Xia, Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States.

In the history of 1800 years, the ancestors of China created brilliant historical civilization, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Xia and Shang dynasties and bronzes in Yin and Shang dynasties were historical symbols of human civilization. Hundred schools of thought, a great thinker in this period, initiated the first cultural and academic prosperity in the history of China. Military strategist Sun Wu's The Art of War is still widely used in military, economic and other fields. Qu Yuan is a great poet in the history of China. Shi Gan Xing Jing in the Warring States Period is the earliest catalogue in the world. At this historical stage, China gradually moved from decentralization to unification. In the pre-Qin period, the freedom of academic thought and the prosperity of culture gave birth to a hundred schools of thought. Hundred schools of thought, such as Confucius, Laozi, Han Feizi and Mozi, is called "a hundred schools of thought contend".