What aspect of chinese life was most affected by the chaos created by the warring states?

The appropriate response is Philosophy. Chinese Philosophy alludes to any of a few schools of the philosophical idea in the Chinese custom, including Confucianism, Legalism, Buddhism, Mohism, and Taoism. It has a long history of a few thousand years. An idea which stayed important all through later Chinese theory, and promptly set it apart from the more straight Western approach.