At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the lessons of the peasant war at the end of the Qin Dynasty were adopted under the guidance of Huang Lao's thought"Do nothing"of the policy of domination. So-called"Huang Lao said", in fact, there are two schools of Taoism. "Yellow"Refers to"The Yellow Emperor's Learning","Old"Refers to the doctrine of Lao Tzu. The study of the Yellow Emperor is also a school of thought in the Warring States Period, and the fundamental difference between it and Lao Tzu's doctrine is dry. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Huang Lao was kneaded together and became the political guiding ideology of the ruling class at that time.
The characteristics of Huang Lao's doctrine are: on the premise of politically affirming the ruling order of the new feudal unified dynasty and recognizing the immutability of the relationship between monarchs and subjects, he strongly advocated it"rule by inaction", believing that the ruler can alleviate social contradictions and stabilize the ruling order by doing less.
The representative work of Huang Lao's thought in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty is Lu Jia's "New Language". Early Han Dynasty"Do nothing"promoted the consolidation of the feudal ruling order and created conditions for the restoration of social production. But then new problems arose"Inaction"Gradually did not adapt to the society, but turned into a promising, Confucianism gradually rose, which provided favorable conditions for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to respect Confucianism.