An important part of ceremony and music civilization, military solute in the PreQin times not only showed the characteristics of evolution of national civilization in the Xia, the Shang and Zhou Dynasty but also exerted deep and profound influence on the shaping of Confucianism and legalism. In the practice of solving problems of the current chaos caused by war, Confucians succeeded the political significance and moral character of the military solute in the West Zhou Dynasty while the legalists introduced the principle of military order into national law and developed the legal theory of internal law and external war.

military solute in the PreQin times; Confucian ideology; legalist ideology