What is Minben Thought

Minben Thought is an extremely important ideological resource in traditional Chinese culture, which began at the turn of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. In ancient times, the idea of the people went through a process of development from respecting heaven and ghosts to respecting virtue and protecting the people, and then from emphasizing the people over heaven to emphasizing the people over the ruler.

Since the emergence of the state, China has entered a new stage of development, and the nature of society has changed from a primitive society to a class society, which later manifested itself as a slave society, a feudal society, and an authoritarian society with centralized power. The people-centered ideology has always existed and played an important role in the development and change of the national political system.

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Development

Yin and Shang Periods During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the atmosphere of superstition was particularly strong, and everything had to be divined, and the oracle bone inscriptions were created to record divinations. People sacrificed to heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, sacrificing stars, the sun and the moon, the highest status in people's minds is the sun god, so that Xia Jie tyrannical, but to the sun itself, said "the day of the sun, as if I have the people.

The Zhou people from the destruction of the Shang people realize that "the sky is tied up", see the people's armed rebellion, only to make the Western Zhou defeated the Shang dynasty, this is "the sky but time to seek democracy", "the people's desire, the sky must be from the", "the sky is tied up", "the sky is tied up", "the people's desire, the sky must be from the", "the sky is tied up", "the sky is tied up", "the sky is tied up". This is "Heaven seeks democracy at the right time", "The people's desires will be obeyed by Heaven", "Heaven sees what the people see, and Heaven listens to what the people hear".

Spring and Autumn period, the Zhou royal family decline, the original sacred and unshakeable day - Zhou Tianzi has lost the identity of the world's **** Lord, the world is in chaos, rites and music collapse. Reality has shaken people's worship of the sacred heaven.

The end of the Ming and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, with the fierce class struggle and the factors of new production relations arise, the ancient people-oriented ideas have been greatly played, is to Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi as the representative of the progressive thinkers of the monarchy as authoritarian dictatorship was profoundly exposed and criticized.

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