The development of Qin thought and culture reflected by Shuihudi Qin bamboo slips The Way To Be An Official (Li)

The Way To Be An Official (Li) is the special bamboo slips, which includes some kinds of theory such as everything being decided by laws of Fa school , one remanding oneself and loving people of Confucianism, lying in the weak and being alert to repeat of Taoism. Like a series of works in the Warring States Period, it gathers kinds of ideas based on Fa school. Compared with the Legalist works from Qin State to Qin Dynasty, it shows the thought of Fa school on how to develop and change. On the whole, it reflects the general tendency or inclination of the thought and the culture in Qin.