Transcript Confucianism - Swift Classroom

Confucianism
One of the Hundred
Schools of Thought
Confucius
– Master Kung or Kung Futzu
– Confucius is the romanized
form of Kongfuzi
– 552-479 BC
• The Analects
– Twenty books of
Confucius’s teachings
recorded by his students
Confucius
• lived 2,500 years ago during the Zhou dynasty
• son of poor noble family in the State of Lu
 present-day Shandong [Shantung] Province
• devoted his life to:
– cultivating virtuous leadership
– restoring the country to an ideal social order
• had thousands of students
Confucianism
•The Five Cardinal
Relationships
•Emperor and official
• father and son
•husband and wife
•older brother and younger
brother
•friend to friend
•The Six Arts of Confucius
Robert Harding Picture
Library/National Palace Museum,
Taiwan
–ritual
–music
–mathematics
–history
–archery
–charioteering
Confucianism
• In China Confucianism became:
– the state ideology
– a way of life
– an avenue to success
• Confucianism was spread to:
– Korea
– Japan
– Vietnam
Bibliography
Tamura, Eileen, et. al. China Understanding Its Past. Honolulu:
University of Hawai’i Press. 1998.
“Confucianism” China Teacher Guide
Granat, Diana and Stanlee Brimberg. China. New York: Scholastic
Professional Books. 1999