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Confucianism: A life worship that can be used as the “background color”
Author: Ding Haoxiang
Source: Author authorized by Confucianism. Originally published by “Confucianism Hall” 2018 No. 1.
Time: Confucius was the seventh day of the fourth month of Wuxu in the year 2569. Guichou
Jesus May 21, 2018.
Content Summary:In the 20th century, the understanding of religion can be said to be the most contradictory phenomenon of thinking civilization. At the beginning, people inherited the Eastern Traditional Chinese tradition of Western Studies and viewed the existence of Confucianism and Christianity as the same level, so the Confucianism Association of Kang Youwei took “protective care” and “protective care” as the main theme. Since the May Fourth Movement, due to the prominence of science, the common people and the trend of scientific thought, religion is often regarded as a synonym of “science”, which has led the entrepreneurs of new Confucianism to adopt a evasive attitude towards the religious nature of Confucianism. It was not until the 1958 “Declaration on the Remarks of the World for Chinese Civilization” that it summarized the understanding of the Chinese thinking world since the late Qing Dynasty, and made a clear determination of the religious nature of Confucianism with a “more than worship”. After that, Liu Shu first borrowed the positioning of “ultimate concern” of religion by the contemporary theologist of Oriental Theology, not only clearly determined the religious nature of Confucianism, but also fully recognized the humanistic characteristics of Confucianism from the perspective of subjectivity; Du Weiming proposed from the perspective of realization of the actual implementation and civilization integration of the final concernFemale College Students’ Care Club “Confucian Christians” and “Confucian Islamists” have fully determined the “commonth and denominator” influence of Confucianism in the communication of various educations. At this point, Confucianism’s “careful to politics, participate in society, and become popular civilization” has become a characteristic of human religious phenomena; and its “compatibility” and “background color” of humanity and the “conformity” of its humanity have formed the unique value and meaning of Confucianism in modern society as a kind of life worship.
Keywords: Confucianism; religious nature; background color; compatibility; life worship
In Chinese history, Confucianism only expressed “Confucianism”, “Confucian scholar” or “Confucianism” at the beginning, and there was no need to be a self-consciousness of the form. It was not until the church came to the east and Taoism was born that it became “Confucianism”, so the “integration of the three religions” became a basic goal of the development of Chinese civilization. When we go to the East and West to learn from Western learning, facing the “gospel” spread by Eastern priests, Confucianism also has the most basic foundation and does not require any self-positioning, but based on its social society.The model of influence directly gave him a “Western Confucian” hat; until the decline of the Douluo Fenf, as the Eastern civilization continued to move forward under the influence of war, this was a basic reflection on its own components. This reflection also opened a question in the 20th century Confucianism study: whether Confucianism is religion and its relationship with religion. This article may not be able to clarify this problem, but some basic ideas can be proposed from the perspective of Confucian historical tradition and its reverse view.
1. Understanding the religious nature of Confucianism
Kang Youyu, who stood on the ground of the civilized race and responded to Eastern civilization, clearly determined it from a religious perspective. Therefore, during the period when the Wuxu period changed the law, he had basic ideas; and after the reaction of Xinhai, the “Confucian Church” was established. In this regard, regardless of the influence of the “Confucian Church” at that time, in Kang You, Confucius was the same leader as Jesus; and Confucianism, like Christianity, has its religious nature.
But Kang Youwei’s initiative was mocked by history: when military officials and politicians used the “Confucian Association” to develop theories for their own rejuvenation of emperors, although Kang Youwei had resigned, it caused the “Confucian Association” to fall into a deep and unavoidable purity that thousands of people pointed out and could not avoid, which was the so-called “old and young” and his “dream” that rejuvenated the imperial system. Therefore, as a new generation of Confucian scholars, like Liang Shuming and Xiong Shili, who emerged in the May Fourth New Civilization Movement, were regarded as the founders of the 20th century new Confucian scholars, who were different and avoided the religious problems of Confucianism, and even clearly believed that Zhang Confucianism was not a religion. On the one hand, they are of course trying to avoid Kang You’s overturn; at the same time, from the trend of thought at that time, in the new civilization movement with science as the mainstream, “religion” is often regarded as the synonyms of “science” and the stones of science. Therefore, not only Confucian scholars do not admit that Confucian scholarship is a religion, but even teaching and research experts are also trying to avoid the positioning of “religion”. But on the other hand, because society cannot lack the maintenance of human education and human order, at that time, not only was there the energy to promote “use aesthetic education to replace religion”, but also various organizations that maintain style in the “God-Entering Society”.
The ten declarations on China-based civilizations issued in January 1935 in Shanghai seem to be neither Confucianism nor religion, but in the context of the rapid development of Eastern civilizations, its call for “China-based civilization” makes people unable to think of Confucianism or its positioning problem. That is: Is Confucianism a civilization? Morality? Or is it said that it originally had a religious worship and the effectiveness of social education?
Excepted in 1958 At the same time, Mou Zongsan, Xu Xieguan, Zhang Junyi, and Tang Junyi, who had already departed from Hong Kong, jointly published the “Declaration on the Responsibility of Chinese Civilizations to the World” in the “Jinist Review”, which not only deeply examined the problem of “students from the late Qing Dynasty to the May Fourth Movement, they did not want to believe in Eastern religions, nor did they value the religious energy of Chinese civilization”[1]. At the same time, they also clearly expressed the facts of life worship that existed in Chinese civilization by using “religious energy” or “exceeding worship”. Therefore, Tang Junyi confirmed in the “Declaration”:
The Confucian thinking in China naturally requires people to be honest and to be honest in life. The so-called killing one’s body and sacrificing one’s life to seek power. The patriots do not forget to be in the valley, and the cowards do not forget to be single, all of them require people to put the problem of death before their eyes, and to highlight the value of benevolence beyond the value of personal life. And the auras of the past are all able to sacrifice their lives to seek power and kill themselves. Being benevolent. Orientals all admit that they have a religious nature to the Tao beyond worship. How can Chinese Confucians not be religious? And the words and aspirations of the Chinese Confucians not be religious? And the words and consciences of Chinese Confucians be the highest fantasy, which is a self-conceived meaning of sacrificing life. How can they be respected if there is no right to respect the same? ? What is worshipped here? This can be said to be the value of oneself of benevolence and the self of the way. It can also be said to keep the righteous spirit of the six senses, or to do what the heart is at peace, rather than the destiny of God or the will of God. However, the place where the way that the heart is at peace in the heart is at peace in the place where the people’s heart is at peace, that is, the place where the six senses are at peace. Even if people can place their deaths and live out of the way, the way that the heart is at peace is in this place The heart is also the way beyond the real life of the person, and is it not the way people worship this way, that is, the way they worship the religion is beyond the way they worship? [2]
In the 20th century Confucian study, this is equivalent to the first “Sister, wipe your clothes first.” Then, from the perspective of the comparison of Chinese and Western thinking, it is clearly recognized that Confucianism has its religious worship effectiveness.
According to the 20th century Chinese civilization research, this conclusion is not easy to come by, but is accompani
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