Name: Jiawen Chen
Confucianism Confucianism is created by Confucius.He is a great thinker, educator, and politician in ancient China between BC 551 to BC 479.However, he is not someone god, son of god, or prophet.He is only an ordinary people who has hundreds of thousand student in China.And he created the Confucianism theory which is the most influential theory in China and it continue to effect most Chinese in now a day.Some cities in China has the Confucius temple to worship him and regard him as sage.But Confucius was not his real name.It was a courtesy title, a Latinized form of “Kong Fuzi”, meaning “Master Kong”.His family name was Kong and his given nameis Qiu.And he styled himself Zhongni.He was born at Zouyi, the State of Lu in ancient China.As one of the greatest thinkers and educators in the history of China, Confucius’ legacy lies in the following three aspects: Firstly, he compiled and preserved the literary works, The Six Claics, including Shi, Shu, Li, Yue, Yi and Chun Qiu, which are regarded as the claics of Confucianism.The accomplishment makes a large impact on the succeion and development of the traditional Chinese culture. The Confucianism started at middle China.And it happened in the Spring and Autumn Period or Warring State Period.During that time, there are some states separated from the Zhou dynasty, and they fight each other year by year.And that division time, it caused too many great thinker exist and all of these great thinker wanted to introduce and spread out there theory to one of those kings and hope one of kings would like their theory and finally to conquer other states, and rule the whole China.Confucianism is one of the famous theory existed in that time.Even the Qin state conquer all other states without using the Confucianism.But after Qin dynasty, Confucianism has become the mainstream theory for emperor used to rule China and educate Chinese, until today, Chinese people is still educated and effected by Confucianism. Confucius built up a system of philosophical thoughts with Ren as its basic virtue, and Ren is core theory in Confucianism and this is what Chinses want to believe.First, Ren theory can be humanity, benevolence, humanne and selflene, and Ren is the virtue of perfectly fulfilling one\'s responsibilities toward others.Secondly, Confucius built up a system of philosophical thoughts with Ren as its basic virtue.This virtue is the central theme of his Analects9.He considered Ren as the first and highest criterion of man’s behavior and the core of morality.Ren meant to “love other men”；to help others to be established when one wished to be established oneself; and help others to be succeful when one wished to be succeful oneself.Confucius’ concept of Li refers to a set of ritual and musical systems, with the hierarchical system as its core.Ren and Li are complementary: Li is the exterior principle of Ren while Ren is Li’s intrinsic guiding power.To accomplish Ren, one must abide by Li, and Ren will be naturally generated in the proce of practicing Li.Fundamentally, the purpose of Confucius’ Li is to restore the traditional rites of the Zhou Dynasty. There is no certain god in Confucianism, they believe the sky is god, earth is god, we can say the nature is god, in Chinese called Tian.Chinese people worship Tian to hope they can have better future, they hope Tian can help them to achieve personal goal.For example, if a farm worship to Tian, he might hope the weather would be comfortable for the agriculture growth.And they are also afraid Tian.Like some nature disaster happened, people would think this is a penalty for people from Tian. There is a few real believer is China, but almost Chinese were effected by Confucianism.In modern China, Confucianism is use to education in most time, but it is not like belief in China.Student would learn what Confucius said and wrote, and try to understand the theory.Because the theory is always right and accept by Chinese people, and they believe Confucianism theory can also help them be a better man if you learn Confucianism.And government also accept Confucianism as mainstream theory in society, because government also think it would help society become harmony.
