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Han Fei (about 280-233 BC) was born in Xinzheng (now xinzheng city, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province), the capital of South Korea during the Warring States Period. He is an outstanding thinker, philosopher and essayist. He is the son of Wang Han, a student of Xunzi and a classmate of Reese.
The legalist theory founded by Han Feizi provided the theoretical basis for the birth of the first unified and autocratic centralized state in China, and was considered as one of the two people who got the essence of Lao Zi's thought the most (the other was Zhuang Zhou).
Legalists in the pre-Qin period were extremely sharp and knowledgeable, and many of them were really gratifying, while Taoist Laozi was far more refined than other philosophers. Fierce legalists and profound Taoists come down in one continuous line, so scholars have the saying that "Tao gives birth to law". Han Fei, on the other hand, "likes the study of punishments and spells, and belongs to Huang Lao".