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Mencius, the leading Confucian scholar of the time, regarded the Spring and Autumn Annals as being equally important as the semi-legendary chronicles of earlier periods. During the Western Han dynasty, which adopted Confucianism as its official ideology, these texts became part of the state-sponsored curriculum. It was during this period that ...
The Study of Current Script Texts (traditional Chinese: 今 文 經 學; simplified Chinese: 今 文 经 学) is a school of thought in Confucianism that was based on Confucian classics recompiled in the early Han dynasty by Confucians who survived the burning of books and burying of scholars during the Qin dynasty. The survivors wrote the ...
The text is an important source of early theories of ritual, [2] cosmology, and governance. The ideas within the Xunzi are thought to have exerted a strong influence on Legalist thinkers, such as Han Fei , and laid the groundwork for much of Han dynasty political ideology. [ 3 ]
In short, filial piety is central to Confucian role ethics [24] and is the cardinal virtue that defines, limits, or even overrides all other virtues. [25] According to the traditional texts, filial piety consists of physical care, love, service, respect, and obedience. [26] Children should attempt not to bring disgrace upon their parents. [27]
Confucianism is concerned with finding "middle ways" between yin and yang at every new configuration of the world." [36] Confucianism conciliates both the inner and outer polarities of spiritual cultivation—that is to say self-cultivation and world redemption—synthesised in the ideal of "sageliness within and kingliness without". [34]
Describes ancient rites, social forms and court ceremonies. The version studied today is a re-worked version compiled by scholars in the third century BC rather than the original text, which is said to have been edited by Confucius himself. I Ching The book contains a divination system comparable to Western geomancy or the West African Ifá system.
This text was recognized by Zhang Yu's contemporaries and by subsequent Han scholars as superior to either individual version, and is the text that is recognized as the Analects today. [13] No complete copies of either the Lu version or the old text version of the Analects exist today, [ 14 ] though fragments of the old text version were ...
Zhu Xi organized the book as Jing followed by ten expositions. Zhu Xi was a student of Li Tong. Zhu Xi developed the Chengs' Confucian ideas and drew from Chan Buddhism and Daoism. He adapted some ideas from these competing religions into his form of Confucianism. [5] Li Ao, a scholar, poet, and official, used and brought attention to the Great ...