Spring and Autumn and Warring States, a hundred schools of thought, military and cultural are great, why not later generations?

The hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn period were a great collision of ideas, a product of the collision brought about by the backwardness of social civilization and system. Its military culture was also unprecedented, and The Art of War was born in that era. The Spring and Autumn period was so active because of the Hundred Schools of Thought. So why was there no more intellectual movement of this magnitude in later generations?

Whether it was the Renaissance and the Enlightenment in Europe, or the New Culture Movement and other intellectual movements in modern China, they all stemmed from the flaws of the social system, which was in conflict with the interests of the society, and the status of the system was challenged. The birth of ideas is in fact a very difficult experience, if there is no social environment of oppression, there must not be so many thinkers collective outbreak of space. In the Spring and Autumn period, the historical environment is the collapse of the social order of the Western Zhou, which is inconsistent with the direction of the development of social civilization, resulting in conflict and collision. In essence, the Hundred Schools of Thought was a great discussion among thinkers in response to the collapsing society. Why did the Hundred Schools of Thought become extinct? And why did the sages we admire no longer appear?

First of all, Confucianism unified the world during the Western Han Dynasty, leaving no room for other ideas to develop. During the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, it was determined that ? Dismiss the hundred schools and revere only Confucianism? The direction of the ideology of Confucianism. This established the unique position of Confucianism in the hundred schools of thought, and since then Confucianism has become the mainstream of feudal thought.

Secondly because of the social environment. After the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, the society was as turbulent as this, and the nation was heading for extinction, only in the late Qing Dynasty. But at that time, the rapid influx of Western ideas, Chinese thinkers borrowed Western ideas, thus losing the opportunity to hundred schools of thought. After the Spring and Autumn Period, the feudal system was gradually established, and although they all went through dynasties, the feudal foundation was not shaken, and the social system was not challenged, which was not conducive to the activation of ideas.

The last comes from the oppressive nature of the feudal system. Confucianism, as the mainstream ideology to consolidate the feudal position must not be shaken. If the interests of the feudal ruling group were touched, those thinkers would be doomed. Thus limiting the bold thinking of the thinkers.