What do you think are the positive and negative impacts of Confucianism on China?

Positive impact

1. Confucianism has a profound influence on Chinese culture. For thousands of years, feudal society taught nothing more than the Four Books and the Five Classics. The traditional thoughts of responsibility, temperance, and loyalty and filial piety are all the result of its combination with feudal rule. Therefore, Confucianism is the mainstream thought in our contemporary era.

2. Confucianism has existed in China for thousands of years and still has a huge potential impact on China's politics, economy and other aspects.

3. A lot of Confucian thought has also been injected into modern business management.

Negative Impact

Benevolent government is the biggest cancer in Confucianism. It makes China’s rulers think they are omnipotent, so they are arrogant; it makes Chinese people put their happiness at risk. He placed his trust in wise kings and upright officials, so they could never escape the fate of suffering. Zhuangzi once believed that Confucian benevolence was counting grains of rice for cooking and choosing hair for combing. Therefore, after a thousand years, someone will eat each other. As a result, in less than a thousand years, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who was outwardly benevolent but lustful, and Wang Mang, who yearned for Confucian unity, both caused the tragedy of cannibalism. In the West, because of the so-called benevolent policies of the welfare state (such as Clinton's unconditional loans for the poor to buy houses), it not only caused the negative consequences of starving people of food, but also caused an economic crisis that is still spreading today. Whether the tragedy of cannibalism will occur in the future is also unclear. Not allowed.