Dong Zhongshu's Concept of National Governance:Dong Zhongshu's New Historical Concept and Reconstruction of the Concept of National Unification

From the Qin dynasty to Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty,there were three political and administrative models of national unification,that is,the unity with tyranny in the Qin dynasty,the unity with natural administration in the early Han dynasty and the unity with numerous political desires in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty,The three models all worshiped the Yellow Emperor with whom they justified their authority and rationality.Even in this cultural context,Dong Zhongshu,a thinker and a Confucianist of the West Han dynasty,abandoned the worship of the Yellow Emperor and created his theory of three-dynasty unification based on the practice of the Xia, the Shang and the Zhou dynasties.The nature of his theory of three-dynasty unification is based on the political unification of the three dynasties following the tradition of Confucianism,which is quite different from the three previous models as well as a critical reconstruction of the ideal of national unification.