德国历史学家雅斯贝尔斯在《人的历史》中曾将公元前800年到公元前200年这六百年间的历史,称为整个人类文化史上的“轴心时代”。他认为,在这段时间中,人类的精神基础同时地或独立地在中国、印度、波斯、巴勒斯坦和希腊开始奠定,直到今天人类仍然附着在这种基础上。这个时代产生了所有我们今天依然在思考的基本范畴,创造了今天仍然信仰的世界性宗教。中国文化史上的春秋战国时期正是这样的轴心时代。当时社会结构的动荡改组,典章制度 The history of Germany, Jaspers, once described the history of 600 years from 800 BC to 200 BC as the “Axis Age” in the entire history of human culture. In his view, during this time, the spiritual foundation of mankind began to be established simultaneously or independently in China, India, Persia, Palestine and Greece, and until today mankind still remains attached to this foundation. This era has produced all the basic categories that we are still thinking today, creating a worldwide religion that we still believe in. The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in the history of Chinese culture are just such an axis era. At that time, the social structure of the turmoil restructuring, the code system