Zhuangzi's articles are rich in imagination, changeable in style, full of romanticism, humorous and satirical in the form of fables, which have a great influence on the literary language of later generations. His extraordinary imagination and unpredictable fables constitute Zhuangzi's unique and peculiar imaginary world. "Beyond the dust, strange things happen."
There is a simple materialistic view in Laozi. In addition, the book Laozi contains many simple dialectical views, such as that everything has two sides, "the movement of Tao" can be transformed from opposition, "power is strange, good is evil" and "disaster is a blessing, and blessing is hidden" I also think that everything in the world is "there" and "nothing".
The unity of "being and nothing" is based on "nothing", and "everything in the world is born with something, and nothing is born". In addition, there are a lot of people-oriented ideas in the book: "Heaven has more than enough to make up for it, humanity is insufficient, and loss is not enough to support it"; "People's hunger is as much as food tax"; "People die lightly, but they live on it"; "People are not afraid of death. Why are you afraid of death?" . His theory had a far-reaching impact on the development of China's philosophy.
Mencius' article is eloquent, magnificent, good at argumentation, rigorous in logic and sharp in wit, which represents the peak of traditional prose writing.
The main contents include universal love, non-aggression, Shang Xian, Shang Tong, frugality, funeral, non-happiness, ambition, ghosts and fate, with universal love as the core and frugality and Shang Xian as the fulcrum. Mozi founded a Mozi inkstone with outstanding achievements in geometry, physics and optics in the pre-Qin period.
A whole set of scientific theories. Mozi's research on physics involves many branches such as mechanics, optics and acoustics, and gives many definitions of physical concepts, makes many important discoveries and summarizes some important physical theorems. Mohism had a great influence at that time, and it was also called "excellent learning" with Confucianism.