From the teaching content, the social education in ancient China was completely based on the values, habits, customs, codes of conduct, norms and other cultural elements formed by the Chinese nation in a specific living environment for a long time. Confucianism absorbed all these cultural elements and rose to the theoretical level of the system.
Since the Han Dynasty, Confucianism has been the mainstream value of China in most historical periods. After the Han Dynasty, the four books and five classics were revised countless times, and the original work of Confucius was unrecognizable. Confucianism evolved into metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties.
The regime in the Tang Dynasty was dominated by Confucianism, but it also infiltrated Taoism and Buddhism. In the Song Dynasty, it developed into Neo-Confucianism, with Zhou Dunyi, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi as ancestors, Zhu as teachers, and Wang Yangming in the Ming Dynasty developed into the theory of mind. After obtaining an official position.
The Confucianism we are talking about now comes from the literature of the Song Dynasty. The imperial examinations in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties all took Zhu's Neo-Confucianism as the examination topic, which had a great influence on his thought. After the Republic of China, the systematic system of Confucianism changed from thought to form into the existence of the people and the government, which mainly preserved the mainstream position of Confucian values in China's people's thoughts.
Since modern times, China's backwardness has caused people to reflect on China culture, and there have been various debates about Confucianism. Among them, scholars of Xue Heng School have made profound judgments on the status of Confucius and Confucianism in modern society.
After the founding of Chinese mainland and People's Republic of China (PRC), although the government once took the lead in "overthrowing Kong Laoer", the mainstream position of Confucianism in the values of China people could not be removed, which triggered a series of social problems, and its influence has been so far. However, after the reform and opening up, Confucianism was re-valued by some people, and today's so-called neo-Confucianism also appeared.
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Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, western learning has spread to the east. After China was defeated in the Opium War, faced with the pressure of western learning, the Enlightenment School of Confucianism in Qing Dynasty put forward the improved thought of "taking middle school as the body and western learning as the use". Since modern times, China's backwardness has caused people to reflect on China culture. Within Confucianism, Gong Zizhen and Wei Yuan criticized Song studies with sinology and advocated reform.
After that, there were three main impacts on Confucianism: the first was the impact of the grassroots on Confucianism during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement. The second time is the impact of reform thinkers on Confucianism during the Reform Movement of 1898. The third time was the New Culture Movement after the founding of the Republic of China, and the impact of various radical new ideological trends on Confucianism.
Facing the impact, Confucianism also responded. Kang Youwei and Chen Huanzhang founded Confucianism to educate Confucian countries. However, scholars of Xue Heng School have made profound judgments on the status of Confucius and Confucianism in modern society, resulting in new Confucianism.
The reason is that Confucianism is rooted in China's inherent value system and can adjust itself at any time to adapt to the changes of the times and society. And largely because it is the most valuable ideological system in the East, it can be said to be synonymous with China's traditional culture in a sense today. Confucianism is the core and subject of "Chinese studies".
Baidu Encyclopedia-Confucianism