During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the rapid development of productive forces promoted the prosperity of businesses and towns, and the traditional social order was violently impacted. In the tide of reform in various countries, scholars with cultural knowledge lobby and give lectures everywhere, which greatly broadens their horizons and urges them to think independently and explore creatively. Representatives of different political and ideological factions in society put forward different opinions on various issues, and a number of academic masters with pioneering contributions emerged, forming a situation in which a hundred schools of thought contend. In the history of China, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were the most brilliant times in ideology and culture. During this period, an unprecedented academic situation of a hundred schools of thought contended, which played an important role in the history of China's thought. This period became an important period of great integration of hundred schools of thought's political thoughts and academic thoughts in the history of China. During this period, the social structure changed dramatically, social contradictions were extremely sharp, merger wars broke out one after another, and cultural thoughts were unprecedentedly active. Most of China's great thinkers appeared in this era, which constituted the essence and foundation of Chinese civilization.

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