Abstract: Zhang Zhidong was a man who had a great bearing on the Confucian Scholarism during the late period of the Qing Dynasty. He had held up the flag of “Tong Jing Zhi Yong” to promote the Confucian Scholarism, and then used the thought of “Zhong Ti Xi Yong” to defend the Confucianism. This paper will study Zhang Zhidong’s thought and activities about Confucianism, to show his individual character, and reveal the predicament and historic fate of the decline of the Confucianism Scholarism in his times.