What are the main ideas of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism?

The core of Confucianism is to emphasize people's conduct, and it has strict standards for people to achieve the best morality. Confucianism not only has moral conduct of universal significance to people, but also has moral standards with class nature, such as monarch and ministers in the three cardinal guides and five permanent members, and courtiers must not disobey the emperor.

The core of Buddhist thought is a broad and profound world outlook with complex dialectical thoughts, and most Buddhist scriptures are arguments about the truth of the world.

The core of Taoist thought is to grasp the origin, development and change of all things, and emphasize that man transcends the limitations of the material world. The widely used Taoist term is "jumping out of the three realms, not in the five elements".

Taoism covers everything, including alchemy, martial arts, military science, medical skills and so on. For example, the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine is the Taoist theory of Yin-Yang, Five Elements and Meridians, but none of these theories can be proved by modern science.

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Corresponding to the secularization of Buddhism, Taoism in Ming Dynasty also tended to secularize after the confluence of the three religions. This can be seen from Li Tianmu's theory in the Ming Dynasty. Li's words are unpretentious, which roughly means that "Tao cannot be separated from daily diet, so you don't have to die in the mountains."

Once Taoist priests become alchemists, their secularization characteristics are more obvious. Most of the alchemists in the Ming Dynasty wandered under the doors of officials or officials, and some even were favored by emperors, such as pottery in Chenghua and Jiajing years.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, advocated the unity of the three religions, he was deeply aware that once Buddhism went deep into the people, it would be a threat to traditional rule to establish a folk religion with strong secular color. This point has been confirmed by the history of the Red Scarf Army in the late Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang has a clear understanding of this. As soon as the Ming empire was established, he began to rectify the wind of Buddhism and Taoism, and it was strictly forbidden to confuse Buddhism and Taoism with secularism.

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