During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the princes had a strong desire for survival, and a hundred schools of thought contended for the position of king overlord, so as to carry forward the gate valve, and the kingly hegemony came into being. Wang Dao originally refers to the way of governing the country by ancient sages such as Yao Shunyu, that is, Wang Zhidao comes first. Later, it was summarized by Confucius, Mencius and Xunzi, and then became the political ideal of Confucianism.

Wang Dao represents a perfect ethical realm and a perfect social and political order. Wang Dao takes benevolence as the basic spirit and benevolence as the basic proposition, and its basic connotation is to implement benevolence.

Hegemony originally refers to princes. With the decline of Zhou dynasty, the strength of the vassal States increased, and then a war of annexation and aggression was launched in order to dominate the vassal States. The hegemony represented by the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period is hegemony. In troubled times, hegemony should be given priority to, supplemented by kingliness; In the prosperous times, kingship is the main factor, supplemented by kingship, and coordinated with kingship.