Abstract: Confucian thoughts take outstanding position in the traditional Chinese culture and play pervasive roles,which penetrated various spheres of the ancient Chinese social life.At a historical glimpse of Confucian thoughts,its problems,ideas,paradigm can be found to have changed with times;after a structural examination,its cores,topics and concerns can be discovered to have remained unchanged;by a functional analysis,it can be seen that Confucian thoughts include the academic,political and cultural influences.