Confucianism

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Confucianism

• By Alisha, Mandy, Michael, and Preshia

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Place of Origin

• Confucianism was originated in East Asia
• extended from countries such as China, Korea,
  Japan, and even Vietnam
• founded by man named Confucius
• Similar philosophies as Taoism.
• Confucius teaches the 'Way of Heaven"
• Gives moral/religious practice
• People misunderstand this religion because of the
  combination of religion and philosophy
• Confucianism has a practical nature

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The Founder Confucius
551 BCE- 479 BCE

• born in Lu, China
• good manners virtue control of oneself
• taught society to take responsibility for their
  actions
• Appointed magistrate of Chung-tu and later became
  Minister of Justice of Lu
• 496 BCE- Confucius left office
• Taught his practices out of the borders of Lu

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Do not dwell on gods, live in the present
Mencius

• Followed and defended the principles of Confucius
  
• believed good is in all people and evil is only
  learned

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Hsun Tzu

• brought Confucianism to life, explaining the
  importance of virtue
• warned evil could easily corrupt humans

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Key Beliefs

• Golden Rule "do not do to others what you would
  not want to have done to you.

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The 5 Relationships

• Father/son
• Ruler/citizen
• Husband/wife
• Older brother/younger brother
• Friend/friend

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6 Key Values

• Li includes ritual, propriety, etiquette, etc.
• Hsiao love within the family
• Yi righteousness
• Xin honesty and trustworthiness
• Ren benevolence, humaneness towards others the
  highest Confucian virtue
• Chung loyalty to the state, etc.

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Symbols

• A hexagram figure from I China
• The I divinatory system of the I Ching is made
  up of trigrams representing the ever changing
  elemental forces of the universe

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Rituals and Ceremonies

• Birth The T'ai-shen (which is the spirit of the
  fetus)
• Reaching maturity- young adult is served chicken
• Marriage- proposal, engagement, dowry,
  procession, marriage and reception, and morning
  after
• Death corpse placed in coffin and there is a
  funeral

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Adherences in the World

• 6 million around the world
• Only 26,000 in North America
• Mostly located in China and the rest of Asia

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Influence in the 21st Century

• persevering, respecting others, and the
  principles of relationships
• today many follow Confucius' advice

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Religious Significance

• A rich tradition of scholarship
• sacred writings include 5 Classics (Wu Jing) and
  the 4 books (Si Shu)
• practices have been severely restricted even
  after the Mao Zedong era

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Interesting Facts

• Moral social political religious thought
  Confucianism
• the wife offers cups of tea to the wedding guest
• "Confucius was completely free from four things
  he had no forgone conclusions, no dogmatism, no
  obstinacy, and no egotism
• Some debate on whether Confucianism is a religion

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GAME TIME!