What were the mainstream views of ancient Chinese thinkers?

The mainstream view of ancient Chinese thinkers was ConfucianismBasic propositions: people as the core, governance by virtue, restoring oneself to propriety, education for all, teaching according to one's aptitude.

The important social impact of Confucianism is that it created a whole set of theoretical thought system for the feudal ruling class to govern the country and society, and allowed the Chinese ruling class to successfully apply the practice of governance in the Chinese society and country to obtain the glorious human development social history of feudal society ruling China for more than two thousand years, which is unprecedented in the history of human social development in the world.

It is also the root of the Chinese nation's previous, present and future standing in the world.

Role of Ideology

The important social impact of Confucianism lies in the fact that it created a whole set of theoretical and ideological systems for the feudal ruling class to govern the state and the society, and allowed the Chinese ruling class to successfully apply them to the practice of governing the Chinese society and the state and gained the glorious human development and social history of more than 2,000 years of the feudal society's domination of China, which was unprecedented in the history of human social development worldwide. The history of human social development in the whole world is unprecedented. It is also the root of the Chinese nation's previous, present and future standing in the world.

The essence of Confucianism does not lie in its theoretical doctrine of governance, the feudal system is only the ideological shell of the feudal society, the essence of Confucianism lies in its social ethical thinking, it is the ethical view of the feudal society from the high expectations of the ruling class of the country, the reality of people's lives with the behavior of the common language.

Moral consciousness to regulate up, so that the peasants become slaves of social ethical thought, and this feudal ethical view as the feudal ruling class superstructure social consciousness of the broadest impact on the core of the mass base of governance of society, so as to complete the ideal effect of dual governance of the national society.