孔子在春秋末年所创立的儒学，发展到战国时期已经成为显学，西汉中期以后居于中国文化的主导地位，近年来在东西方又兴起了“儒学热”，许多儒学问题得到了重新解释与评析。但是其中有个带根本性问题即“儒”的历史渊源与演变问题，诸家向有歧解，三十年代胡适作《说儒飓出德 Confucianism, founded by Confucius in the late Spring and Autumn Period, had become a dominant school in the Warring States Period and dominating Chinese culture after the middle Western Han Dynasty. In recent years, Confucianism has risen in the East and the West, and many Confucianism problems have been re-interpreted and analyzed. However, one of them has a fundamental problem that is the historical origin and evolution of Confucianism,