Confucianism

The imperial sacrifices performed here were state ritual on the Confucian pattern rather than popular cult.

This source names Confucianism directly: "16 to 19 November 2019 under the theme Confucianism and Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind, hosted by the Association, UNESCO and the China Confucius Foundation, with about eight..."

Classical Chinese is the language of the Analects and the Five Classics that anchor Confucian teaching.

This source names Confucianism directly: "Wikipedia's article on Confucianism, consulted 2026-08-13."

Confucian learning and state ritual are the shared civil framework of the region.

Confucianism orders family, ritual and state; whether it is religion or philosophy is itself an old argument.

Confucian learning became the basis of the state examination and ritual system under the Han.

Neo-Confucianism was the governing ideology of the state.

This source names Confucianism directly: "of the roles folk religion, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity and Korea's indigenous new religions have played in Korean life, part of the University of Hawai'i Press's Dimensions of Asian..."

This source names Confucianism directly: "at the ninth Nishan Forum's own world Confucianism studies sub forum a report documenting the development of Confucianism worldwide over the preceding decade, co-produced by the Shandong Academy of..."

Confucius taught in the state of Lu, on this plain.

The Qing imperial order the Pingnan Guo broke away from drew its own legitimacy chiefly from Confucian statecraft, though Atwill's scholarship cautions against reading the war as primarily a contest between two religious systems.

This source names Confucianism directly: "explainer site's account of Confucianism's official status in Indonesia: recognised in 1965 under Law No."

This source names Confucianism directly: "together, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism, with Taoist deities, the Buddha and Confucius all venerated at the temple, and it is classed as a Taoist organization in standard reference accounts of..."

The tradition's liturgical, scriptural or ancestral language belongs to this family.

Confucius lived and taught in this period, and the chronicle that names it is one of the Five Classics.

Confucian temples, including the Temple of Confucius at Qufu, were attacked.

This source names Confucianism directly: "in 1926 that combines elements of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Catholicism under a single Supreme Being, Cao Dai."

Its cosmological layout follows the Confucian ritual order of the imperial state.

This source names Confucianism directly: "at court over both Buddhism and Confucianism."

This source names Confucianism directly: "Taoism competed for standing throughout the dynasty with Confucianism and an increasingly popular Buddhism, but held its position as the imperial house's own ancestral faith until the Tang collapsed..."

Confucian thought was reshaped and divided during the Warring States by successors including Mencius and Xunzi.

Wang Bi's commentary on the Yijing, a Confucian classic, stood alongside his Laozi commentary as a standard reference, so Xuanxue engaged Confucian and Daoist texts through the same method rather than choosing between them.

Yu the Great's mastery of the flood is the classical model of legitimate rule, retold across the Confucian canon.

Song dynasty thinkers built an explicit metaphysics of li and qi onto classical Confucian ethics, developed partly in response to centuries of Buddhist and Daoist thought classical Confucianism had not engaged; see the description above for the distinction from classical Confucianism.

The tablet holds the name and is the seat the ancestor occupies during offerings, which is the practical centre of Confucian ancestral rite.

Ancestor veneration and filial piety are practically definitional to Confucian family ethics.

The lineage hall is where the ritual programme of the Confucian classics meets ordinary household practice.

Lessons for Women frames female conduct explicitly in Confucian terms as the counterpart to Confucian obligations placed on men.

The Korean harvest festival's ancestral rite, charye, follows Confucian ritual form.

A state-backed dramatization of Confucius's ethical teaching and career, released amid an official Chinese revival of Confucian thought after decades in which it had been officially disfavored.

His academicians and imperial academy turned the classics into a career, and the career into the intellectual culture of the Chinese state.

He preferred a state in which the ruler mediates between Heaven and the people directly, with no independent clergy holding land, wealth or exempt population.

The I Ching on which the system is built is a Confucian classic through the Ten Wings, but the Gene Keys take the hexagrams as a psychological typology and drop the ethical and political reading the Confucian tradition attached to them.

Prescribed in the classical Confucian ritual canon and its later family-ritual manuals.

The I Ching underlying the system is a Confucian classic through the Ten Wings, but Human Design uses the sixty-four figures as a fixed birth typology rather than as the guide to timely and ethical action the Confucian reading makes of them.

The Ten Wings commentaries, traditionally ascribed to Confucius, made the manual a classic of the Confucian canon, read for guidance on timely and ethical action; it became one of the Five Classics and part of the imperial examination curriculum.

Chinese households set sticks upright before ancestral tablets, a Confucian-linked domestic practice.

Both UNESCO's own Intangible Cultural Heritage record and the City of Seoul's own tourism record name the Jongmyo rite this music accompanies as Confucian outright, making this the first musical work the atlas holds for the tradition.

With the Duke of Zhou he is the tradition's model of government by moral force, and Confucius names his culture as the thing entrusted to him.

The capture and death of a qilin in 481 BCE, recorded in the Spring and Autumn Annals traditionally attributed to Confucius, ties the beast to the Confucian classical canon distinctly from its wider place in Chinese folk religion.

UNESCO's own Multimedia Archives item page names the Confucian Temple and the Confucian philosophy the rite transmits outright, a second screenwork the atlas now holds for the tradition.

The tablet is the focus of Korean Confucian ancestral rites.

Senior leadership office of Confucianism.

UK Confucian Society (Glasgow) is constituted explicitly to promote the teachings of Confucius, so linked to Confucianism at the religion level.

The Confucian ordering of mourning by degree of kinship.

Kang Youwei held Confucianism in a form most contemporaries did not recognize, as a reformist institutional religion founded by a deliberately radical Confucius rather than as a conservative transmission of ancient tradition.

Han Feizi dismissed reliance on Confucian virtue and ritual as unworkable and was openly contemptuous of Confucian scholars.

Mozi argued for impartial universal care (jian ai) against the graded, kinship centered affection Confucians treated as natural, and condemned elaborate ritual and funerary expense as wasteful.

The Confucian statement of shu, reciprocity.

The positive counterpart to the Confucian principle of shu.

Closes an 11 year gap since 2015's China's Confucian Revival Forms A National Church, the most recent event already on Confucianism's map, with a sitting Chinese Vice President publicly addressing an international Confucian congress in Beijing.

Adds a milestone in Confucianism's history between Joseon Korea adopting Confucianism as state ideology in 1392 and the Qing court abolishing the imperial examination system in 1905, both already recorded here: the 1687 Paris publication of Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, the Jesuit Philippe Couplet's Latin translation of three of the Four Books, carrying Confucian thought to Europe for the first time.

The founding episode of Confucianism's own spread history, previously entirely absent: the existing earliest event was Confucianism reaching Joseon Korea in 1392, 1943 years after Confucius's own death.

Adds a specific, dated milestone in Confucianism's institutional history between Emperor Wu establishing Confucianism as Han state orthodoxy in 136 BCE and Tang Emperor Taizong ordering Confucian temples in every prefecture in 630, both already recorded here: Emperor Ling's 175 CE approval of Cai Yong's petition to carve the Confucian classics onto forty six stone stelae at Luoyang's Imperial Academy, the Xiping Stone Classics.

Adds a milestone in Confucianism's institutional history between Emperor Ling approving the Xiping Stone Classics in 175 and Tang Emperor Taizong ordering Confucian temples built in every prefecture in 630, both already recorded here: Emperor Yang of Sui adding the jinshi examination to the state's Confucian classical examinations in 605.

Adds a specific, dated milestone in Confucian history between Tang Emperor Taizong ordering Confucian temples in every prefecture in 630 and Zhu Xi rebuilding the White Deer Grotto Academy in 1179, both already recorded here: Fan Zhongyan's 1044 Qingli era decree establishing government schools built around the Confucian classics in every prefecture, which reshaped the examination system's rewards for the rest of the imperial period.

Confucianism's map held no event outside China and Korea before this file. Adds Southeast Asia's own dated legal history, an arrived-suppressed-revived arc distinct from the Cultural Revolution and 2009 events already on the map.

Adds a specific, dated institutional milestone between Emperor Wu of Han establishing Confucianism as Han state orthodoxy in 136 BCE and Zhu Xi rebuilding the White Deer Grotto Academy in 1179, both already recorded here: Tang Emperor Taizong's 630 edict ordering a Confucius temple built in the state school of every prefecture and county, standardizing the temples' scale, ritual etiquette and offerings across the empire.

Closes a 7 year gap since 2019's China's Vice President Addresses the International Confucian Association's Sixth Congress in Beijing, the most recent event already on Confucianism's map, with the same state supported forum tradition again convening in Confucius's own hometown.

Adds a specific, dated milestone in Confucianism's history between Confucianism becoming Joseon Korea's state ideology in 1392 and China's Cultural Revolution denouncing Confucius in 1973, both already recorded here: the Qing court's 2 September 1905 decree abolishing the imperial civil service examinations that had bound Confucian scholarship to imperial office for thirteen centuries.

Closes a two year gap since 2023's citation of the Nishan Forum's decade report, moving the map from Confucianism's own scholarly retrospective to a United Nations cultural agency's own anniversary for a literacy prize still carried under Confucius's name.

Adds a specific, dated institutional milestone between the Han dynasty's state orthodoxy and the imperial examination system's later spread into Korea already recorded here: Zhu Xi's rebuilt academy and the code of conduct he wrote for it, which shaped private Confucian education across China for centuries.

His Shiji contains the earliest connected biography of Confucius, the account from which later images of the sage descend.

Cao Dai names Confucianism as one of the Three Teachings it fuses, and takes from it the ethical and hierarchical ordering of its community.