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Self-driving tour, a sort of self-help
travel, is an emerging mode of travel in China in
recent years. It providestravelers with
great flexibility in selecting
destinations,participating procedures
and experiencing freedom,which endow it with
differentiating characteristics and
charms from the traditional group tour. As the
self-
drivingtourists increase, the
self-driving tour market has begunto take shape;
more
and more travel agencies, car
clubsand car rentals are optimistic about it and
engage
inmarket development.
The Hundred Schools of Thought
refers to the various schools of
thought that
emerged and flourished
during the period frompre-Qin times to the early
Han
Dynasty of ancient China. The
Spring and Autumn Period and the War ring States
Period witnessed the transition from
slavery society to feudal emerged
a
large number of philosophers and philosophical
schools, who wrote books to
advertise
their thoughts and debated with others. This
phenomenon is calledthe
Contention of a
Hundred Schools of Thought. The era. isalso known
as the Golden
Age of Chinese philosophy
Mostwell-known among the many schools were
, Taoism. and Legalism. This era ended
with the rise ofthe Qin
Dynasty and the
subsequent burning of books andburying of scholars
By the Han
Dynasty. Emperor Wupromoted
the policy of rejecting the other schools of
thought
and respecting only
Confucianism. As a tosult, the Confucianism
represented by
Confucius and Mencius
became the orthodox thought which dominated
Chinese
ideology and culture for over
2000 years
Mencius, also known as Meng
Ke, was a great philosopher,educator, and
statesman
in the Wamng States Peniod He
inherted and developed Confucius thought and was
identfied as the mostimportant
representative of Confucianism after Confucius
s inhented Confucius' idea of goveming
by vitue, advocatinga
benevolent
government which should reduce penalties
andtaxation toward its people
It is
permissible for people to overthrowor kill a ruler
who ignores the public's needs
or rules
harshlyMencius also inherited Confucius teachings
of innate. goodness
ofhuman nature,
asserting the. innate. goodness of the indvidual
He argued that
human beings are born
with an innate moral could be preserved and
expanded through self-examination and
moral cultvation to avoid being corrupted
His interpretations development, and
spread of Confucius teachings became
asinfluential in traditional Chinese
ideology as the ideas of Confucius
thoughts of these two great thinkers
are referred to asthe
Mencius
and recorded by
Mencius and his disciples. Mencius is one of the
Four Books, Just
like The Analects of
Confucius, Mencius is one of the classics of
Confucianism.
The Four Books and the
Five Classic books and the main carriers of
Confucianism the
core value and
ideological systems of Four Books include The
Great Leaning,The Doctrine of the
Mean,The Analects of Confucius,and
were,in the Ming and Qing
dynasties,made the core of the official curriculum
for the
imperial civil Five Classics
is a collective name given to five ancient
classics which were used by
Confucianism as its basis of study,namely The Book
of
Songs,The Book of History,The Book
of Rites,The Book of Changes,and The Spring
and Autumn the Western Han
Dynasty,Confucianism was adopted as
the
state ideology,making the Five Classics even more
the Ming
and Qing dynasries,the Five
Claaics were used as textbooks for the imperial
civil
Four Books and the Five Classics
are not only an integral part of
traditional Chinese culture but also
treasured books of Chinese historical and cultural
also rank very high in the cultural
and intellectual history of the world