What is Confucianism?

Confucianism is a school of thought that was founded by Confucius, developed by Mencius, and synthesized by Xunzi, and that has continued to this day.

Confucianism was originally one of the hundred schools of thought of the pre-Qin period, and its founder was Confucius. Confucianism and the hundred schools of thought in the pre-Qin period and the status of equality, after the Qin Shi Huang "burning books and burying Confucianism", so that Confucianism suffered a serious blow. Later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in order to maintain feudal autocracy, listened to the advice of Dong Zhongshu, who "dismissed all schools of thought and honored only the Confucians", and imposed a clampdown on the ideas, which led to the re-emergence of Confucianism.

Confucianism, or Confucianism for short, was the dominant school of consciousness in ancient China, serving as China's official ideology for most of its history since the Han Dynasty, and still serving as the basis for the mainstream thinking of Chinese people in general. Confucianism has had a profound impact on China, East Asia, and the world.

After the replacement of the Qing Empire by the Republic of China (ROC), the last dynasty that practiced Confucianism as an official school of thought, Confucianism was subjected to the greatest impact of the new foreign culture, but after many shocks, catastrophes and even attempts by the official regime to eradicate Confucianism completely, Confucianism has remained a core value of the general population of the Chinese society, and has served as a representative of the Chinese culture and a mark of the national traditions in the world.

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Confucianism is the most common form of Confucianism. p>Confucianism was known as an eminent school of thought along with Mohism during the pre-Qin period. It suffered a severe blow during the reign of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, known as the "burning of books and burying of scholars". During the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty inherited three generations of Chinese culture as its basic line of cultural construction, and these three generations of Chinese culture are the Confucianism six sutras, and Confucius is known for inheriting the culture of the Chinese nation, so Confucianism itself is the cultural essence of the Chinese nation.

Because of the Zongjing and respect for Confucianism, this is one of the reasons why Confucianism has made good luck. When Confucius died, "Confucianism was divided into eight" (Han Fei Zi), of which there are two main schools, one is Mencius out of the Zi Si lineage, and the other is Xunzi out of the Zixia lineage, which is the pre-Qin Confucianism.

Confucianism takes traditional feudal society as its material bearer, and traditional feudal society takes Confucianism as its spiritual bearer. The disintegration of traditional society has led to the loss of Confucius' sage authority.

When China was bombarded by the Western powers, a large-scale anti-Confucian movement began in modern times, which culminated in the Peasants' Revolt of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Xinhai Revolution of the bourgeois Revolutionary Party, and the May Fourth New Culture Movement.

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