Confucianism is the doctrine of Confucius and his followers that has dominated for over two thousand years, life ethics, politics and religion in China, as prescribed rites of state of the imperial house, as well as the cult of the ancestors of the family and had provided the public code of conduct (which China's rulers and their officials had to respect), and the private code of family life. The teachings of Confucius, was preserved by his disciples (some of which, however, reached prominent positions administration of the feudal state), in "Conversations", a non-systematic collection of short stories and sayings, made many years after his death. The canonical texts, namely the Four Books (intellectually more advanced) and the five charges, have little religious: it is rather of rules for practical action (personal, family, social and political-administrative). It 'a kind of philosophy of civil life, with implications that could be called religious. There are, however, revelation, dogma, sacraments, miracles, cosmogony and apocalypse. The study of Confucianism was forbidden during the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) which followed on the Chou. Consolidation of several existing states and proclaiming for the first time in Chinese history, Emperor, the ruler of Cheng began a national identification irreversible movement, behaving in a manner hostile to the Confucian tradition, said to be too compromised with the feudal period of the previous year (even in 213 BC he ordered the burning of Confucian books). But the later Han dynasty (202 BC-220 AD) restored the Confucian tradition, so that in 59 AD, Emperor Ming-Ti ordered the beginnings of a cult in favor of Confucius. Since then and until the early twentieth century. his popularity knew no decline, even in the presence of Buddhism.
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