The tradition of tracing Chinese political history from heroic early emperors to the Xia to succeeding dynasties comes from the idea of the Mandate of Heaven, in which only one legitimate dynasty can exist at any given time, and was promoted by the Confucian school in the Eastern Zhou period, later becoming the basic position of imperial historiography and ideology.

This designation reflected the prevailing idea that anyone could be civilized / tamed by adopting Confucian social norms (; ).

He was also said to be full of respect for Confucian scholars, and supported the idea of allowing masters of the Five Classics to serve in the imperial court of Cao Pi, the first emperor of the state of Cao Wei.

The yangban were either landed or unlanded aristocracy who comprised the Korean Confucian idea of a " scholarly official.

The onset of economic liberalization and the rise of free markets in Burma, members of the Sino-Burmese community gravitated towards commerce and business and adhere to the Confucian paradigm of guanxi which is based on the idea that one's existence is influenced by the connection to others, implying the importance of having contacts and connections as a key ingredient for business success.

Some Chinese scholars doubted the idea that God was already part of the Confucian tradition.

What he thought was that only qi ( or ch ' i ; energy or material force ) exists ; li ( principle, form, or idea ), which was a central concept in traditional Confucian thought, doesn't exist independently, being simply the principle of the qi.

Based on Marxist theory, Confucian tradition, and the Juche idea, North Korean human rights theory holds that rights are conditional rather than universal, that collective rights take priority over individual rights, and that welfare and subsistence rights are important.

I thought that the truth is not remote from us … After a long time, I suddenly awoke to the realization that what I inwardly witnessed agreed entirely with the idea of ‘ great change ’ in the Confucian transmission … hence my own understanding of Confucianism was not derived from book learning.

At the center of Zhang Zai's teaching is the idea of ren, humaneness or human-heartedness, in many ways the salient teaching of the classical Confucian tradition.

He was a Confucian, and applied Confucius's idea of the " superior man " to the samurai class of Japan.

For example, he believed that the Confucian notion of reverence was the same as the Shinto idea of prayer ( kitō ).

These accounts were written with two purposes in mind: the introduction of Taoist, Confucian, and Buddhist themes into Japanese religion ; and garnering support for the legitimacy of the Imperial house, based on its lineage from the sun goddess, Amaterasu.

Although killing two brothers and deposing his father contradicted the Confucian value of filial piety, Taizong showed himself to be a capable leader who listened to the advice of the wisest members of his council.

Jia Yi's essay, admired as a masterpiece of rhetoric and reasoning, was copied into two great Han histories and has had a far-reaching influence on Chinese political thought as a classic illustration of Confucian theory.

The Chinese Confucian thinker Mencius, who 2300 years ago sought to give advice to the ruthless political leaders of the warring states period, was convinced that the mind played a mediating role between the " lesser self " ( the physiological self ) and the " greater self " ( the moral self ) and that getting the priorities right between these two would lead to sage-hood.

The Confucian thinker Xun Zi is sometimes considered as being influenced by or having nourished Legalist ideas, mostly because of two of his disciples ( Li Si and Han Fei ).

Jo Gwang-jo's efforts to promulgate neo-Confucianism among the populace were followed by appearance of Korea's two most prominent Confucian scholars.

Yi I ( 이이 李珥, December 26, 1536 – 1584 ) was one of the two most prominent Korean Confucian scholars of the Joseon Dynasty, the other being his older contemporary, Yi Hwang ( Toegye ).

Yi Hwang ( 1501 – 1570 ) is one of the two most prominent Korean Confucian scholars of the Joseon Dynasty, the other being his younger contemporary Yi I ( Yulgok ).

According to the Confucian thought every culture should carry on its own primordial ethnic religion, which two main aspects are reverence for nature and for the ancient fathers ; in the case of the Chinese it is the Chinese folk religion and Taoism compound, which pivotal element is the worship of ancestor gods.

Under one unified government however, the diversity was not deemed desirable for two main reasons: first, it hindered timely communication, trade, taxation, and transportation, and second, independent scripts might represent dissenting political ideas, especially in areas where the suppressed Confucian tradition remained strong.

The Humanities and Social Sciences campus in Seoul is located uphill from the old Sungkyunkwan Confucian institute, on the same hill as Changdeokgung and Changgyeonggung, two of Seoul's royal palaces, and Jongmyo.

* Weng Tonghe ( 1830 – 1904 ), Confucian scholar and imperial tutor of two emperors during the Qing dynasty

Here he began to entertain writers and academics with an interest in his work and to write, working on translations of the Confucian Book of Odes and of Sophocles ' play Women of Trachis as well as two new sections of the cantos ; the first of these was Rock Drill.

The two main written sources for the Rock Drill cantos are the Confucian Classic of History, in an edition by the French Jesuit Séraphin Couvreur, which contained the Chinese text and translations into Latin and French under the title Chou King ( which Pound uses in the poem ), and Senator Thomas Hart Benton's Thirty Years View: Or A History of the American Government for Thirty Years From 1820 – 1850, which covers the period of the bank wars.

The concept of chéng ( 誠 、 诚 ) as expounded in two of the Confucian classics, the Da Xue and the Zhong Yong is generally translated as sincerity.

" Chapter 8, " Explaining Conjunctions ," is primarily taken from other early sources, not only Daoist but Confucian and Mohist texts, two philosophies that opposed the philosophical Daoism this book expounds.

It is summarized in his epitaph that during his lifetime, Arniko completed three stupas, nine great Buddhist temples, two Confucian shrines, one Daoist temple, and countless images and objects used in and out of the court.

Developed from a fusion of elements, popular song, arias of Chinese opera, ancient melodies and pieces of Buddhist music, Xianshi music falls into two styles: Rujia yue is music of the Confucian school that can be performed as an independent instrumental music genre or at weddings and other ceremonies and that aims at elegance and nobility, while Pengding yue is principally the music of the theatre, though it may be played independently: it cultivates a sober, rustic style.

It was said that Yuan became capable of writing at age eight, and at age 14 passed the imperial examination for understanding two Confucian classics.

After his first publication, Ansai spent the remaining thirty-five years of his life writing, publishing, editing, annotating, and punctuating Confucian and Shinto texts ( that accumulated to over two thousand pages ).

Masayuki proved to be Ansai's intellectual equal, helping him compile five different works: two gazetteers for the Aizu domain, and three Confucian texts: Gyokusan kōgi furoku ( Appendix to Zhu Xi's lecture at Yushan ), Nitei jikyōroku ( Record of the two Cheng's political teachings ), and the Irakusanshiden shinroku ( Record of the mind-heart ).

In 1680, when Ansai put forth a radical re-interpretation of the Great Learning that defied traditional Confucian thought, he had a falling out with two of his best students, Satō Naokata and Asami Keisai, who could not accept Ansai's new interpretation.

The city was carefully planned during the early Ming dynasty, with a central axis running through the midpoints of the northern and southern walls, dividing the city into two equal parts to fulfil the Confucian ideals of " 居中不偏 " and " 不正不威 ".

Emperor Wu of Han started an early form of the imperial examinations, transitioning from inheritance and patronage to merit, in which local officials would select candidates to take part in an examination of the Confucian classics.

In the United States, the earliest published usage known is a Philippine Republic article written in January 1924 by Dr. J. Juliano, a member of the faculty of the Schurz school in Chicago-" Why does a Pinoy take it as an insult to be taken for a Shintoist or a Confucian?

In the Chinese spirit, derived in large part from Confucian ideals, these kongsi members or their descendants prefer not to boast so much of their wealth but to take pride in earning worldly and financial success through their work ethic and the combined efforts of many individuals devoted to group welfare.

From the middle and late Eastern Han to the early Wei and Jin dynasties, the net growth of ancient Chinese science and technology experienced a peak ( second only to that of the Northern Song dynasty )... Han studies of the Confucian classics, which for a long time had hindered the socialization of science, were declining.

However from the middle of the dynasty, it was almost completely subdued by the Confucian influence which can be seen through the incident of ‘ the removal of the sokyuk-su ( pavilion )’.

Confucian teachings contain the similar doctrine of Zhōngyōng or the middle.