RELIGIONS
CONFUCIANISM
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Question
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Chinese rulers were convinced to ban Buddhism.
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Neo-Confucian officials introduced the idea of a merit system.
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Neo-Confucianism became the dynasty’s official philosophy.
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Scholar officials lost their place in Chinese society.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The revived Confucianism of the Song period (often called Neo-Confucianism) emphasized self-cultivation as a path not only to self-fulfillment but to the formation of a virtuous and harmonious society and state.
Detailed explanation-2: -Neo-Confucianism could have been an attempt to create a more rationalist and secular form of Confucianism by rejecting superstitious and mystical elements of Taoism and Buddhism that had influenced Confucianism during and after the Han dynasty.
Detailed explanation-3: -Confucianism influenced Song China to be a very patriarchal society that valued scholars and others who were highly educated. Women had no control over what they were allowed to do, and all decisions had to be made by a male relative.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the neo-Confucian period (11th–early 20th century), the influence of Buddhism and Daoism prompted Confucianism to find metaphysical and epistemological foundations for its ethics.