Several Ideas on the Traditional Doctrine of "Rule of Virtue

The concept ofRule of Virtuewas conceived in Xia and Shang Dynasties and was born in the early western zhou Dynasty.After coming among the people in Spring and Autumn Period and after the expounding and developing of Confucian School,it became a systematically political theory.With Han Wu Di's banning the other schools of thought and honoring Confucianism only,the traditional doctrine ofRule of Virtueturned into the official philosophy again and then became one of the leading thoughts of the later feudal politics.Such a process of development and evolution,in fact,was one of the Surveyor's Rodsof progress of the ancient socially political civilization.At the beginning,Rule of Virtuewas a method of governing the country.Later,it spread to the essential level of social duties.It required the ruling class to be diligent in the people's affairs and regard them as the basis of the country.However,all these demands were raised from the subjects.As for the ruled objects-the broad masses of the people.The active status didn's exist at all.Lack of the participation of the people from lower class and without a powerful legal control mechanism are the fundamental reasons for the failure of the practice of the traditional dectrine ofRule of Virtue.