What are the three major cultures?

The three major cultures in China are Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. In the profound China culture, the integration of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism has played an important role in the inheritance of China traditional culture, which can be called the three pillars of China traditional culture. Confucianism is an academic school founded by Confucius at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, and it has the most extensive and far-reaching influence on later generations in pre-Qin hundred schools of thought.

Brief introduction of three major cultures

The characteristics of Confucianism are that Confucius, the master, respects the Six Classics, advocates propriety, happiness, benevolence and righteousness, advocates the golden mean, advocates the rule of virtue and benevolence, and attaches importance to ethics. Confucianism once became the mainstream ideology. From then on, it occupied the dominant position in China in the late Qing Dynasty.

Over the past two thousand years, Confucian scholars in past dynasties have deduced various timely Confucian theories from Confucius' theories, and there have been changes in Confucian Classics in Han Dynasty, Metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties, Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties, and Puxue in Qing Dynasty. In the long history, Confucianism has penetrated into all levels of society and become the backbone of Chinese culture, profoundly affecting the cultural development of the Chinese nation and the shaping of national spirit.

Laozi is recognized as the founder of Taoism. He advocates the idea that Tao is the foundation of all things in the universe, puts forward that Tao gives birth to one, two, two, three and three, and thinks that everything originates from Tao and returns to Tao.

Buddhism takes Buddha as the supreme leader and worships Buddha as its basic feature. It is one of the three major religions in the world alongside Christianity and Islam. Buddhism was first introduced to China in 67 AD, and then to China. Buddhism stresses birth, emphasizing that everything is empty, eliminating troubles and measuring people. Cultivating the mind with Buddhism, cultivating the body with Taoism and governing the country with Confucianism have become the ways of practice of intellectuals in China in the past.