Confucianism
Confucianism, also invited as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought in addition to behavior originating in ancient China. Variously noted as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or simply a way of life, Confucianism developed from what was later called the Hundred Schools of Thought from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius 551–479 BCE.
Confucius considered himself a transmitter of cultural values inherited from the Xia c. 2070–1600 BCE, Shang c. 1600–1046 BCE as alive as Western Zhou dynasties c. 1046–771 BCE. Confucianism was suppressed during the Legalist and autocratic Qin dynasty 221–206 BCE, but survived. During the Han dynasty 206 BCE–220 CE, Confucian approaches edged out the "proto-Taoist" Huang–Lao as the official ideology, while the emperors mixed both with the realist techniques of Legalism.
A Confucian revival began during the People's Republic of China. In the gradual twentieth century, the Confucian work ethic has been credited with the rise of the East Asian economy.
With particular emphasis on the importance of the breed and traditional Chinese: 正統; orthopraxy' led by Confucian priests or "sages of rites" 礼生; 禮生; lǐshēng to worship the gods in public and ancestral Chinese temples is preferred onoccasions, by Confucian religious groups and for civil religious rites, over Taoist or popular ritual.
The worldly concern of Confucianism rests upon the conception that human beings are fundamentally good, and teachable, improvable, and perfectible through personal and communal endeavor, particularly self-cultivation and self-creation. Confucian thought focuses on the cultivation of virtue in a morally organised world. Some of the basic Confucian ethical theory and practices put rén, yì, and lǐ, and zhì. Rén 仁, 'benevolence' or 'humaneness' is the essence of the human being which manifests as compassion. it is the virtue-form of Heaven. Yì 义; 義 is the upholding of righteousness and the moral disposition to score good. Lǐ 礼; 禮 is a system of ritual norms and propriety that determines how a grown-up should properly act in everyday life in harmony with the law of Heaven. Zhì 智 is the ability to see what is adjustment and fair, or the converse, in the behaviors exhibited by others. Confucianism holds one in contempt, either passively or actively, for failure to uphold the cardinal moral values of rén and yì.
Traditionally, cultures and countries in the numerous Confucian personalities formally establish a national Holy Confucian Church 孔圣会; 孔聖會; Kǒngshènghuì in China to unify the numerous Confucian congregations and civil society organisations.