Why did Confucianism decline?

Confucianism has not declined. At present, Confucianism is widely used in enterprise management. The application of leadership wisdom derived from Confucianism is a compulsory course for contemporary enterprise leaders, and its application in enterprise management has become the core concept of contemporary managers.

However, Confucianism did experience ups and downs in the long history of China. Especially in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, some progressive scholars began to expose that Confucian classics were not "eternal supremacy", exposed the hypocrisy of Taoism, denied the autocratic rule of feudal monarchs, put forward the idea of no monarch, and even advocated materialism, including Deng Mu, Wang Yangming, Li Zhi, Huang Zongxi, Gu and Wang Fuzhi, which reflected the requirements of the embryonic era of capitalism in a certain sense. However, as a precious traditional culture of the Chinese nation, the value and importance of the golden mean will become increasingly apparent with the passage of time, which has already been shown. The Doctrine of the Mean is the most continuous culture in the world, and it is also the most valuable core spirit and concept among many cultural schools in China.