Xunzi was a distinguished thinker in ancient China;he carried on and developed Confucian studies of Kongzi and Mengzi, and took in the ideological theory of Legalist school.

• 摘要荀子是我国古代著名的思想家，他的学说中既继承和发展了孔孟儒学，又兼容了法家的思想理论。