WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism are considered the “three pillars” of ancient Chinese society. As philosophies and religions, they not only influenced spirituality, but also government, science, the arts, and social structure.

Detailed explanation-2: -Confucianism addressed all aspects of Chinese social interactions, and created a strict social hierarchy governing relationships between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, elderly and young and among friends.

Detailed explanation-3: -Because of their distinct class and ideological differences, Confucianism and Taoism often clashed in political views. For example, Confucianism upheld rationalism and humanism while Taoism preferred mysticism and naturalism.

Detailed explanation-4: -The two great indigenous philosophical and religious traditions of China, Daoism and Confucianism, originated about the same time (6th–5th century BCE) in what are now the neighboring eastern Chinese provinces of Henan and Shandong, respectively.