Everything has a reincarnation, history can not be out of the ordinary, the history of each dynasty and each generation is in the cycle of experience of rise, development, climax, decline, and demise, which is also a law of nature, usually we can learn from the decline of the dynasty to the reasons for the failure of the predecessors, in order to make appropriate adjustments to the next rise, continue to carry forward the good experience, and summarize the lessons to avoid repeat offenses.
This is usually the reason why the next reincarnation can reach prosperity, the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, the Tang and Song Dynasties and other great dynasties are standing on the shoulders of giants, in order to continue the excellent culture of the Chinese nation, only "to remove its dross, take its essence" is the precious wealth left by history, then before the construction of a feudal unified centralized state, the foundation laid is very important.
This is to say that China's first golden age, in this era the stars are shining, basically the essence of Chinese culture has burst out in this era of ideological explosion, countless thinkers and philosophers have used their wisdom to provide an ideological foundation for the Chinese nation to continue unceasingly.
This was China's first era of open-mindedness— the historical Zhou Dynasty.
Although the Zhou Dynasty still belonged to the slave society, in fact, there was already a rudimentary form of feudal society, which was gradually transforming into a feudal society, and the unification of the world was a trend of the Zhou Dynasty's disputes, which was the result of the gradual accumulation of China's social productive forces and economic development at that time, and it was also a period of paving the way for the unification of the six kingdoms of the Qin Dynasty.
During the Zhou Dynasty, Chinese philosophical circles were full of flowers, known as the reputation of "a hundred schools of thought", which shows the profoundness and freedom of people's thinking at that time!
The Hundred Schools of Thought were selectively borrowed by future rulers, the Qin State rose up with the idea of the Fa, and after Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, the main thing used was also the Fajia thought, but when the situation was stable, it was inevitable that the Fajia thought was too harsh, but without the lessons of the past, the death of the Qin State II was also inevitable.
In the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "deposed a hundred families and respected Confucianism alone", which became the main ideological melody that must be united for generations in China, and Chinese still believe in the Confucian set of etiquette, and whether it is the Fa, Confucianism, Taoism or Mojia, they all took shape in the Zhou Dynasty, especially Confucianism played an important role in the construction and stability of a unified society.
"Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness" is the essence of Confucianism, and the founder of Confucianism came from the State of Lu, so why was Confucius, as a Lu country, able to produce such a philosophy of governing the country or dealing with the world?
This brings us to the fiefdom of the State of Lu, which was the fiefdom of the son of the Duke of Zhou in Zhou, and because he was afraid that the descendants of Yin Shang would rebel again, the Duke of Zhou divided the remnants of the Yin Merchants into several parts and put them under the administration of the Song State, the Wei State, and the State of Lu, so that the Zhou Dynasty was able to be at peace.
The princes of Song, Wei, and Lu were actually either descendants of the Yin shang nobles, or brothers or descendants of King Wu of Zhou, that is, the earliest and most orthodox fiefdoms, Confucius has always been proud of the honor of the State of Lu, and the "father and son of the king" is the respected order of the Zhou Dynasty, and it is also the core of Confucian thought, such as the tradition of establishing a concubine as a king followed by later generations, which came from the Patriarchal system of Western Zhou, which greatly avoided the threat of inheritance disputes.
The first prosperity of the Western Zhou Dynasty is undoubtedly an excellent example of China's prosperity, "the rule of Chengkang" seems to be unknown to few people, but it is the sect of China's ten thousand worlds, it is not only from the patriarchal etiquette is the source of culture, China's territory is also in the "rule of Chengkang" initially formed, and even the reason why China is called "China", also thanks to the Chengkang period, because the King of Wu took Luoyang as the center, and called it "China", in the Chengkang period "China" is used to refer to the Zhou Dynasty.
The most grateful person for the "rule of Cheng Kang" is Zhou Gongdan, who assisted the young King Cheng of Zhou to maintain the rule of Zhou Tianzi, and later returned to the government of King Cheng, achieving "loyalty and filial piety and benevolence", and "Zhou Gong Li Le" is talked about by everyone. The Western Zhou Dynasty's sub-feudal system maintained the development of this golden age to a certain extent during the Chengkang period.
During the Chengkang period of the Zhou Dynasty, it continued to expand and expand, and in the late chengwang period, Guotai Min'an, the son of king Chengwang, continued the achievements of the previous rulers with the assistance of Zhao Gong and Bi Gong, making society prosperous and prosperous, and was praised as "when Chengkang came, the world was peaceful, and the punishment was not used for more than forty years." The reign of Cheng Kang was the only prosperous era of the Zhou Dynasty and the first prosperous era in China.
The "rule of Chengkang" created a China not only benefited China itself, but also affected the politics, economy and culture of the whole east and even Southeast Asia, ancient Japan, Korea has always taken our culture as orthodox, and highly praised it, and the essence of Chinese civilization has also been introduced to their own countries, but although these countries have also wanted to call themselves "China", but has always been just imitation, the originality of Chinese ideas will never be imitated beyond, and China is the only China.
[Reference: Chronicle of History]