Therefore, the emperor of Han increasingly realized the importance of Confucianism towards the feudal country, realizing that Confucianism’s ideology of hierarchy, the thought of supreme monarch and the benevolent governing thought were the necessary theories for the feudal dynasty to consolidate its rule and national stability. Also, the ideology of Confucianism was such political ideas that were especially suitable for the need of restoring the economy at the beginning of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wudi even employed Dong Zhongshu’s proposal which is to “Ban from hundred philosophers, venerate Confucianism”. In this dynasty, Confucianism gradually merged with the feudal regime and started to being adopted in politics. Since then, Confucianism
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The civil-service examination system occupied a central position in the traditional Chinese social structure, and it was the fundamental means to maintain the orthodox position of Confucian ideology and Confucian value system. After a long operation, the civil-service examination system entirely became a tool to strengthen the govern for the ruling class. With the solid deep influence of civil-service examination, the official standard thought was more serious, more and more people wanted to become officials and enter a political stratum, and rulers also continued to expand the number of admitting people from civil-service examination, which led to redundant costs, redundant officials, slow state machine operation, officials making no attempt to make progress and the country becoming lagged behind. The civil-service examination system which was used as a means, inevitably went astray, enlisting of civil service officials through imperial exams on “eight-part essays”, rigid rules, narrow content. The disadvantages of the imperial examination system are increasingly obvious and harmful. The fundamental cause is Confucianism itself corruption, imprisonment, rigidness. Since the civil-service examination only focused on the classic content, only paid attention to the meaning of the interpretation of the classics, the candidates divorced from the reality and focused on the hollow thoughts, thus …show more content…
The expression of Buddhism in neo-Confucianism is represented in three aspects: one is absorbing the metaphysics of Buddhism and Daoism, constructing Confucianism’s own metaphysics; second is taking the missionary pedigree of Buddhism and Daoism for reference, founding Confucianism preach system, which is called Confucianism orthodoxy; third is taking in asceticism of Buddhism and Daoism, putting forward the "save justice and destroy human desires" moral claim. Neo-Confucianism completed its theoretical framework and reached the summit in recognition in Southern Song. The representative, Zhu Xi, mainly discussed the relationship between Qi and Li and the relationship between mind and nature. “Cheng Yi expressed it very well when he said that principle is one but its manifestations are many. When Heaven, Earth, and the myriad things are spoken of together, there is only one principle. As applied to human beings, however, there is in each individual a particular principle.” (de Bary, Wm, 353, 49:1b) Zhu Xi pointed out that before the existence of concrete things, there has been the existence of Li. He pushed Li to the extreme, relating to Tai Chi, indicating that Tai Chi was the sum of all
The civil-service examination system occupied a central position in the traditional Chinese social structure, and it was the fundamental means to maintain the orthodox position of Confucian ideology and Confucian value system. After a long operation, the civil-service examination system entirely became a tool to strengthen the govern for the ruling class. With the solid deep influence of civil-service examination, the official standard thought was more serious, more and more people wanted to become officials and enter a political stratum, and rulers also continued to expand the number of admitting people from civil-service examination, which led to redundant costs, redundant officials, slow state machine operation, officials making no attempt to make progress and the country becoming lagged behind. The civil-service examination system which was used as a means, inevitably went astray, enlisting of civil service officials through imperial exams on “eight-part essays”, rigid rules, narrow content. The disadvantages of the imperial examination system are increasingly obvious and harmful. The fundamental cause is Confucianism itself corruption, imprisonment, rigidness. Since the civil-service examination only focused on the classic content, only paid attention to the meaning of the interpretation of the classics, the candidates divorced from the reality and focused on the hollow thoughts, thus …show more content…
The expression of Buddhism in neo-Confucianism is represented in three aspects: one is absorbing the metaphysics of Buddhism and Daoism, constructing Confucianism’s own metaphysics; second is taking the missionary pedigree of Buddhism and Daoism for reference, founding Confucianism preach system, which is called Confucianism orthodoxy; third is taking in asceticism of Buddhism and Daoism, putting forward the "save justice and destroy human desires" moral claim. Neo-Confucianism completed its theoretical framework and reached the summit in recognition in Southern Song. The representative, Zhu Xi, mainly discussed the relationship between Qi and Li and the relationship between mind and nature. “Cheng Yi expressed it very well when he said that principle is one but its manifestations are many. When Heaven, Earth, and the myriad things are spoken of together, there is only one principle. As applied to human beings, however, there is in each individual a particular principle.” (de Bary, Wm, 353, 49:1b) Zhu Xi pointed out that before the existence of concrete things, there has been the existence of Li. He pushed Li to the extreme, relating to Tai Chi, indicating that Tai Chi was the sum of all