Who is Dong Gong?

Brief introduction of Dong Zhongshu

Dong Zhongshu was a thinker who kept pace with the times in the Western Han Dynasty, a famous Neo-Confucianism scholar and a master of Confucian classics. Born in China (179- 104), he was a thinker and politician in the Han Dynasty. Jingdi was a doctor at that time, teaching "Ram Spring and Autumn". In the first year of Yuanguang (BC 134), Dong Zhongshu put forward the basic points of his philosophical system in his famous "Countermeasures for Giving Virtue", and proposed that "a hundred schools of thought should be ousted and Confucianism should be respected alone", which was adopted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Later, in 10, he served as the national phase of Jiangdu Wang Liufei; In the fourth year of Yuan Shuo (before 125), he served as the minister of Liu Duan, the king of Jiaoxi, and resigned and went home four years later. Since then, writing a book at home, every time the court discussed it, the messenger and Tingwei asked about their family, which is still respected by Emperor Wu. Based on Yang Gong Chunqiu, Dong Zhongshu combined the religious view of heaven with the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements since the Zhou Dynasty, absorbed the thoughts of Legalists, Taoists and Yin-Yang School, established a new ideological system, became the official ruling philosophy of the Han Dynasty, and systematically answered a series of philosophical, political, social and historical questions raised by the society at that time.