How Song Mingxiology inherited pre-Qin Confucianism

The development of Confucianism is reflected in the absorption of Buddhism and Taoism, and the completion of the thinking of the universe and nature to make up for the shortcomings and defects of Confucianism, in short, the science of Confucianism has become a philosophy that can explain everything, but this explanation is directly linked to Confucian ethics, so that the science of Confucianism continued to be used by the feudal rule, and became the official philosophy in the Yuan Dynasty.

Confucianism absorbed the ideas of Buddhism and Taoism, in fact, under the pressure of the growing popularity of Buddhism and Taoism. At the same time, because of the pre-Qin Confucianism itself only have Kong, Meng dogma-like fragments of words, do not have a systematic, theoretical doctrine, in the turbulent times of Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties, can not solve the many questions in the minds of the scholars, especially the lack of macro-understanding of the world, nature. Under this pressure, since the Tang Dynasty, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan advocated the ancient literature movement of "the way of the world" and began to revive Confucianism, to the Song Dynasty, Confucianism completed the thinking of the universe and nature, and combined with the needs of the ruling class, realized its own theorization, discursive, and then became the official philosophy.