Confucian Beliefs

The religion Confucianism was first discovered in the sixth century before the common era, or also known as B.C.E, and it was lead by its founder Confucius. This, religion, however did not really begin with Confucius discovering, but how he preserved his belief as a transmitter that could bring the old things in life and renovate it into something new. In the beginning, “ Confucius was born in 551 BCE in the small feudal state of Lu in what is now Shantung Province.” ( Religionfacts). He was first influenced by his mother’s teachings and as he grew in his late teens, he soon became a passionate learner. However some things about Confucius remained unknown like, “ (...) his mastery of the six arts—ritual, music, archery, charioteering, …show more content…
This religion is mainly used to believe in the excellent characteristics in humans. “ Like all other Eastern traditions Confucianism contains within itself multidimensional ideas and ideals, ethics, political, religious,philosophical, educational,etc. These values are intertwined with each other, and are explored and manifested in Confucian doctrines concerning human nature and destiny, family relationships and virtues, community norms (...).” (Yao,5). Confucianism is followed up by four books, “-Lun Yu (Analects) of Confucius Chung Yung (Doctrine of the Mean), Ta Hsueh (Great Learning), Meng Tzu (Mencius)” (Religionfacts.) and five classics, “Shu Ching (Classic of History) - collection of documents and speeches dating from the Later Han Dynasty (23-220 CE), Shih Ching (Classic of Odes) - collection of 300 poems and songs from the early Chou Dynasty (1027-402 BC), I Ching (Classic of Changes) - collection of texts on divination based on a set of 64 hexagrams that reflect the relationship between Yin and Yang in nature and society, Ch 'un Ching (Spring and Autumn Annals) - extracts from the history of the state of Lu 722-484, said to be compiled by Confucius, Li Ching (Classic of Rites) - consists of three books on the Li (Rites of Propriety)” ( Religionfacts). Confucianism is often represented by the chinese symbol “water” because it is use to represent the …show more content…
This religion was created during the Song Dynasty and has existed for one millennium. It was used to bring back the revival of Confucianism and it succeeded. However, unlike Confucianism, Neo-Confucianism believed in the spiritual world and reality. It also had little philosophical and focused more on political ideas as it was created to beat Buddhism and Daoism. “Neo-Confucianism flourished in all of these East Asian countries and since the 16th Century some of most creative philosophical work was achieved in Korea and Japan.” (Berthrong). Neo-Confucianism at one point became the basic ideals for the Japanese and Koreans, but in the current time, Neo-Confucianism no longer exists because many people pushed for a reform in the political