The Acme of Thought that the People Are Foundation of Country or the Seed of Democracy——The Orientation of Huang Zongxi's Political Thought

Huang Zongxi gave a profound reflection to the relation between the emperor and the people under the standard of the people's worry and happiness, differentiated legal system of emperor's and the whole people's, and then appealed that good law has precedence over Man of God, and wanted to restrict the power of emperor.But his ideality still was the governance of Three generation, and did not deny the exit of emperor;he just wanted to look for the model of the ideal emperor under the governance of emperor.Huang Zongxi's thought was lack of the people-govern which was of modern democracy, so could not restrict the emperor effectively.So his ideality did not exceed the scope of the tradition, he just made the thought to its historical high-point.What he left for the descendant could only be the source of ideology, but not system.