Abstract: During and after Opium War,the time-saving school of Daoguang and Xianfeng put forward a doctrine to screw up public trend with a view to relieving the then serious moral crisis.Based on the theory of volitionism,the doctrine advocated personality liberation and moral omnipotence.This doctrine was of certain revelation to the remolding of national ideological trend in contemporary Chinese history,but inessence,it didn't go beyond the ideological system of the landlord class,and couldn't be viewed as the “prelude” or “awakening” of the ideological reform of modern times.

Key words: time-saving school, Gong Zizhen, Wei Yuan, to screw up public trend, to remold national thought