At the end of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, wars and disputes, the collapse of rites and music, a revolution in the ideological field is brewing. At this time, Confucianism represented by Confucius gradually emerged in this revolution and became the mainstream thought. Confucianism began to accept the carving of history and gradually developed into shape.

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu, based on Confucianism, integrated the thoughts of Yin and Yang, Huang Lao and Legalism, and linked theocracy, monarchical power, patriarchal clan system and husband power, forming a new Confucian ideological system. His theories of "harmony between man and nature" and "unification" in the New Confucianism met the needs of the unification of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and made Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty accept Dong Zhongshu's suggestion of "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone". Since then, Confucianism has occupied a dominant position in China's unified national politics, established its mainstream position in China's traditional culture, and thus established its position as the orthodox thought of China's feudal society.

Confucianism, as an orthodox thought, played a variety of roles in stabilizing the feudal society in China.

(1) Politically, there is only one reason why feudal rulers of past dynasties are willing to pursue Confucianism-it is the theoretical basis for maintaining the autocratic rule of feudal monarchs. Just as in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the exclusive respect for Confucianism refers to the complete use of Confucianism in the political power and national superstructure, and the proposition of Confucianism is not only conducive to consolidating centralization, but also conducive to cracking down on local separatist forces and has a very positive role in consolidating national unity. Among them, such as the strict hierarchical relationship of "Jun Jun, minister, father and son", it is necessary to have "long live" monarch loyalty when treating the monarch and never cross the line; Servants are born slaves and only kneel and kowtow. In Confucianism, the hierarchical concept of "neither superiority nor inferiority" is deeply rooted in the hearts of thousands of people throughout the feudal society, that is, the cultivation of "servility" has evolved over the past 100 years (from the end of feudal society to today), and China people can realize that we should not be enslaved because of the advanced modern civilization education we received since childhood. The feudal rulers deeply realized the important role of education, so they regarded Confucianism, which was beneficial to their "stability of mountains and rivers", as orthodoxy, made his subjects accept it from their bones, made the people willing to be enslaved and serve his dictatorship all their lives, and subconsciously believed that "the sky remains the same, and the road remains the same." In other words, this is also related to our national nature-the golden mean, that is, we are not adventurous, accustomed to tolerance and tend to be content with the status quo, because the people of our country always think that the stability of life is above everything else, or we can't blame the feudal rulers of past dynasties too much. In the final analysis, they just played this role under the guidance of history. As for the concept of "loyalty to the monarch" evolved from the Confucian idea of loyalty to the monarch, the courtiers equated loyalty to the monarch with patriotism, which led to the emergence of Yue Fei, a tragic figure under the feudal system. Confucianism stabilized the political ruling order of feudal society. This is not to say that Confucian rule can guarantee people not to rebel, because the case of uprising can't stand cruel rule has been promoting the continuation of feudal society. Confucianism is deeply rooted, and those who overthrew the old feudal rule never realized that this "unreasonable" feudal social system should be replaced by a new advanced social system supported by social ideology, but they were bent on establishing a new feudal dynasty. Have you noticed that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established by Hong Xiuquan was even harsher than the Qing Dynasty? The sedan chair he was sitting in was neither a four-person sedan chair nor an eight-person sedan chair. He wants to pretend to be a new generation of emperors-64 people carry big sedan chairs. Of course, some feudal rulers still did enough face-saving projects. Confucius advocated that "the benevolent loves others", that is to say, emperors in high positions should take care of their loyal subjects to ensure that they are more loyal to themselves; Didn't Meng also advocate "benevolent government"? He advocated that "the people are the most important, the country is the second, and the monarch is the light", which is decent enough; Emperor Taizong's assertion that "water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it" occasionally makes people feel glad and sigh "a wise man". Obviously, both Confucius and Mencius represent the interests of the ruling class. If I were the emperor, I would become "modest" to reduce the noise in my autocratic society, and I would also practice "rule by virtue". This kind of upper political stability is very important to the rule of feudal society, because the monarch has all centralization in politics, economy and military affairs, so only by ensuring the monarch's peace of mind can there be no war, economic stability and social stability. Although this is a deformed social stability based on ignorance and national subjugation, and even it depends to a great extent on the subjective attitude of the monarch-the explorer spirit of Emperor Yang Di made the originally stable country miserable-Confucianism still ensured the people to live a relatively stable life in the feudal society for thousands of years.