The main contribution of scholars in the day was constructing the leading ideology of the Han Dynasty. Through hard choice of the rulers of the current dynasty, Emperor of Wu established Confucianism as the exclusive norm. Confucianism, which was exclusively established since then, developed a leading ideological system with “the family normal and ethic” as the general principle. This ideological system involved social values emphasizing ethics, political values of monarchy supremacy, order values maintaining the hierarchy of the superior and inferior, collective values emphasizing the nation and family and moral values preferring faithfulness to interests. It possessed mystery of “telepathy between heaven and men”, necessity of “YingYang and Five Elements”, initiative of “humanitarian towering the world” and singularity of obligations of “loyalty, filial obedience and piety”. Under the continuous consolidation and intensification by the generations of rulers, “the family normal and ethic” came to the leading system of values in times of the West and the East Han Dynasty and exerted profound and deep influence on Chinese feudal society.

Confucianism in the Han Dynasty; ideology; “family normal and ethic”