Dong Zhongshu

In the first year of Emperor Wu’s founding (140 BC), Dong Zhongshu proposed in the Countermeasures for Promoting Virtues: “Anyone who does not fall within the six arts or the art of Confucius will be eliminated. Don't let the Tao go hand in hand." In the same year, Emperor Wu adopted the advice of Prime Minister Wei Wan and deposed the virtuous "Zhi Shen, Shang, Han Fei, Su Qin, and Zhang Yi Zhiyan". Wei Wan did not directly criticize Huang Lao's remarks, but Empress Dowager Dou (the grandmother of Emperor Wu), who was fond of Huang Lao, still strongly opposed it and imprisoned Zhao Wan, the imperial censor, and Wang Zang, the doctor's order, who advocated Confucianism. Although the power of Confucianism was temporarily hit, in the fifth year of Jianyuan (136 BC), Emperor Wu appointed Doctors of the Five Classics, and Confucian classics became more complete in the government.

In the sixth year of Jianyuan (135 BC), Empress Dowager Dou died, and Emperor Wu appointed Tian Fu, who was good at Confucianism, as his prime minister. Tian Fu dismissed all Dr. Taichang who did not treat the Five Classics of Confucianism, excluded Huang Lao Xingming and hundreds of schools of thought from official studies, and recruited hundreds of Confucian scholars with courtesy. This is the famous saying of "deposing hundreds of schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone." After Confucianism was solemnly respected, officials mainly came from Confucian scholars. Confucianism gradually developed and became the feudal orthodoxy that ruled the people for the next two thousand years. This situation is very detrimental to the development of academic culture, but under the conditions of feudal society, it is conducive to the strengthening of the autocratic system and the unification of the country.