The earliest political works in Han Dynasty were written by Lu Jia at the beginning of Han Dynasty.

Lu Jia's Xin Yu

Xinyu is a collection of political essays by Lu Jia in the Western Han Dynasty, which consists of two volumes. Jia, a native of Chu, has ruled the world since Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, and the official is a doctor of Tai Zhong. This collection contains 12 articles written by the author in the early Han Dynasty. Emperor Gaozu once said: "I lost the world because I love Qin, I love my gains, and I love the ancient country of success or failure."

This book consists of twelve chapters. In Xin Yu, Lu Jia advocated that "the way of benevolence and righteousness precedes the sage", advocated the combination of etiquette and law, and emphasized that people must do nothing. It laid the basic pattern of the ruling thought in the early Western Han Dynasty.