春秋上继西周、下启战国的过渡性质使其社会思想的表现极为复杂。春秋时期,不仅社会上涌动着以礼外交、以礼治国、以礼修身的传统礼治思潮,人们对传统礼治所表现出来的内部矛盾,即礼之实与礼之仪的相互脱节也发表了批判性意见。为实现“天下国家可得而正”的礼之实的政治目的,一些政治家甚至摒弃了虚而无用的礼之仪。在其政治实践中,已初步具备后世法家的法治萌芽。 After the Spring and Autumn, following the Western Zhou Dynasty, the transitional nature of the Warring States Period under way made the performance of its social thoughts extremely complicated. In the Spring and Autumn Period, not only the social surges in the traditional rituals of rites and ceremonies governing rituals and rituals, but also the internal contradictions shown by rituals in traditional rituals were also disclosed Critical opinion. Some politicians have even abandoned the useless and useless instrument of rituals in order to achieve the political goal of “providing rituals and gifts to all the nations in the world.” In his political practice, it has initially possessed the rule of law germination of later lawyers.