Why did ancient Chinese intellectuals not emphasize natural science?

This is related to the traditional thinking of the Oriental people, the Oriental people are not good at digging for deep things, such as macro, micro. These two things do not know how to observe, it is doomed to develop a scientific system for the study of nature, such as macro: infinite series, multi-dimensional space, before the big bang; micro: cells, quarks, antiprotons.

Ancient intellectuals want is to get the title, when the rulers of high-level reverence for the Confucian and Mencius, Confucius and Mencius, but look down on the strange and obscene skills, so the rulers did not pay attention to it, and naturally there are not many intellectuals to study.

Ancient China did prioritize technology over other countries in the world, but it did not make much progress in the narrower sciences (natural sciences). The basis of narrow science is to refine theories and come up with appropriate laws and theorems in the laboratory. But there were few such institutions in ancient China; the alchemy room was palace and was of a nature to provide immortality to the emperor, and although there were alchemists who discovered the corresponding chemical reactions, they failed to popularize them. Physics also once had the glory of the Mohists, but was later reversed by Confucianism.