Xunzi, the middle and late Confucianism in the Warring States, has always been the subject of controversy. He was denounced as non-Confucianism by most Confucian scholars of all dynasties because of such issues as sexual abuse, non-subtle thinking, Mencius, and King of France. However, after all, can not hide the value of Xunzi's study. The theory of covering Xunzi not only inherits the Confucian tradition since Confucius, but also integrates the views of other school traditions such as Taoism, Mohism and Legalism into his own doctrine, which in turn promotes the development of Confucianism
This essay, entitled "The Study of Xunzi's Life and Its Ideology", on the one hand, traces the life story of Xunzi and the order of its travel through the biography of historians and philosophers; on the other hand, it is based on the thought of "heaven and man dichotomy" , With the context of historical evolution of ritual as its mainstay, and its etiquette as its branches and leaves at various levels, dividing it into seven chapters: On Heaven, On Man, Etiquette, On Theory, Politics, On Military, In part, to prove its own system of ideas, different from Mencius.