Zhang Zai's Thought of Family Ethics and Its Influence

Zhang zai's family ethical thought is to restore and strengthen the Confucian ethics order as his own duty.This thought inherits and develops the family ethics thoughts in Yi zhuan,it has serious patriarchal tendency,it has the systematic and philosophical universe ontology as the highest interpretation authority,it has feudal legal system as guarantee,and it has the dialectic thoughts such as one and two and enmity will be reconciled as methodology safeguard.It stresses the honour low fluctuation and level obedience,it constructs basic framework of the Song Dynasty' s family ethical thought and it is of a great influence on later generations.