Differences between Neo-Confucianism and Traditional Confucianism

1. Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties is philosophical Confucianism: traditional Confucianism was transformed by Neo-Confucianism in Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and moral program theory developed into a philosophical theoretical system. Philosophy is a theoretical and systematic world outlook and the unity of world outlook and methodology. It has the characteristics of abstraction and universality, and embodies the philosophical wisdom created by Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties.

2. Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties is Confucianism with Confucian ethics as its philosophical core: it is based on Confucian ethics. Compared with Dong Zhongshu's Confucianism in Han Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties focused on ethics instead of politics. Compared with pre-Qin Confucianism, Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties paid more attention to the expression of philosophy.

3. Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties is Buddhism and Taoism: Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties is the product of long-term opposition and integration of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in ancient China, which has obvious characteristics of Buddhism and Taoism: First, it absorbed Buddhism and Taoism, made up for the theoretical defects of Confucianism in the past, and reconstructed the theoretical system of Confucian academic thought; The second is to learn from the missionary pedigree of Buddhism and Taoism and establish the Confucian missionary system, that is, the Confucian "Taoist system"; The third is to absorb Buddhist asceticism and put forward the moral proposition of "preserving righteousness and destroying human desires"