天道是古代社會存在與變動的核心價值，並進而左右了所處時代社會治理的模式。通過先秦相關文獻，可以梳理出先秦天道演變經歷的四個階段，第一個階段，以絕地天通為中心事件，由民神雜糅變為民神不雜，天道由開放轉向壟斷；第二個階段，以周革殷命為中心事件，由皇天有親變為皇天無親，天道由壟斷轉向開放；第三個階段，以禮崩樂壞為中心事件，道家、墨家、儒家依據自身學說，分別截取天道變化的歷史階段來重新賦予各類新的意義，天道仍舊保持一定的開放狀態；第四個階段，以鄒衍的五德終始說與韓非子的法家學說為代表，天道由開放轉向壟斷。此四個階段的變化，深深影響了先秦諸子思想的產生與發展，並奠定了中國社會治理基本模式。

The TianTao is the core value of the existence and change of ancient society，and then affects the social governance mode of the times. The evolution of Tiandao in Pre-Qin Dynasty went through four stages. The first stage was the event centered on Isolation between heaven and earth, which changed from the mixture of men and god to the no mixture of men and god. TianTao was from Openness to Monopoly. The second stage was the event centered on the Zhou replaced Yin, which changed from the god blessing relatives to god not blessing relatives. Tiandao was from monopoly to openness. The third stage was the event centered on the breakdown of Zhou’s cultural system, Taoism, Mohism and Confucianism according to their own theories, adopted the historical traces of the changes of the TianTao to re-give it various new meanings. The TianTao remained open to a certain extent. In the fourth stage, the TianTao was represented by Zou Yan’s Five Virtues Change Theory and Han Feizi’s Legalist doctrine. The TianTao turned from open to monopoly.The changes of these four stages deeply influenced the generation and development of the thoughts of pre Qin philosophers, and established the basic model of Chinese social governance.