The aristocratic families of the Three Kingdoms period were mostly nobles from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, as for the marquis aristocracy that was enfeoffed during the Chu-Han contention, they were essentially all "harmonized" by Emperor Jing and Emperor Wu, and similarly, few of the household generals who followed Guangwu remained, it should be said that these families from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods had learned how to preserve themselves amid the chaotic struggles of the Warring States...
The inheritance of these nobles from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods was essentially the same set of teachings from the Hundred Schools of Thought, either descendants of a certain master from among these schools or the direct disciples of one, or simply absorbed the essence of one of these schools.