The main ideas of Confucianism

1. The main content of Confucianism: an ideological system with benevolence as the core and people as the priority. Confucianism is the most important traditional culture in China, and the Confucian school has exerted a far-reaching influence on China, East Asia and even the whole world.

2. Confucianism is the most influential school in ancient China after Dong Zhongshu's "exclusive respect for Confucianism". Confucianism, as the embodiment of China's inherent value system, is not an academic or school in the usual sense. Generally speaking, especially in the pre-Qin period, Confucianism was one of the most influential schools. And Mohism.

3. Qin Shihuang was badly hit by burning books and burying Confucianism. During the period of Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty, hundreds of schools were ousted, Confucianism was the only one, Confucianism was practiced, and then it rose.

4. The connotation of Confucianism is rich and complex. On the basis of absorbing the essence of ancient books, it gradually developed basic theories and ideas, that is, emphasizing unity and emphasizing monarch, minister and father.

5. Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, broke the monopoly of the ruling class on education for the first time, from "learning in the official" to "giving lectures privately", so that traditional culture and education spread to the whole nation.