Confucianism and Political Morals of Qin Dynasty From the View of The Way To Be An Official

The Way To Be An Official of Shuihudi Qin bamboo slips mainly shows that government officials should have moral self-cultivation and the Political Morality of governing people;referring from The Way to Be An Official to the classical literature of the Confucius school,we can find that The Way to Be An Official has absorbed the ideas of Confucianism,such as breadth of mind,loyalty,honesty,and living contentedly as a poor scholar.This indicates that,although Qin Dynasty ruled people with cruelty in practice,it paid attention to the method of internal sage in the Political Morality Construction,and this also indicates that from one aspect Qin Dynasty did not wholly repel Confucianism.