The Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period was a golden age of Chinese ideology. This period laid the foundation for feudal institutions and ideology and basically shaped a complete a system of social macro-control. What contributed to the coming of this period were profound cultural accumulation, good cultural ecology, fierce social conflicts, an independent class of think tankers and appearance of talented people. However, the period came to an end when the integrate centralized monarchy empire of the Qing and the Han Dynasty were founded.

alliance and harmony; cultural ecology; contention of different schools of thought