Abstract:
The Great Learning, which overemphasized moral conduct and integrity, was a leading work contributed by the school of Zeng Zi, whose text was completed during the few centuries between the early and middle Period of Warring Kingdoms and the early West Han Dynasty. The Great Learning succeeded the consistent tradition of practice, learning and thinking, developing an ideological basis to ascend to Confucianist classics. Even later, with the advancement of Dong Zhongshu and Han Yu, especially of Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming, The Great Learning exerted more and more significant ideological influence in Chinese historical society.
