Confucianism

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2. Beliefs • Li: Rituals, Propriety, and Etiquette • Hsiao: Love within the family: Love of parents toward their children and of children toward their parents • Yi: Righteousness • Xin: Honesty and Trustworthiness • Jen: Benevolence, Humaneness towards others; the highest Confucian virtue • Chung: Loyalty toward the state

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4. History • Confucius was born in 551 BCE in the state of Lu • He lived during the Chou dynasty • His writing deal mainly with individual morality and ethics http://cdn2.all-art.org/world_literature/images/c/34.jpg

5. Practices • Birth: • T'ai-shen protects the pregnant woman, while dealing harshly with anyone who harasses a mother to be • Special procedures are to be followed when the placenta is disposed of • Mothers are placed on a special diet and allowed to rest for a month after delivery • A mother's family supplies all the items required for the baby on the first, fourth and twelfth month anniversary of the birth

6. Practices • Reaching Maturity: • Life’s passage is no longer being celebrated, except in traditional families • Takes the form of a group meal in which a young adult is served chicken

7. Practices • Marriage: Performed in six stages: • Proposal: Couples exchange the eight characters: Year, Month, Day and Hour of each of their births. If an event occurs within the bride-to-be's family during the next three days - the woman is believed to have rejected the proposal • Engagement: After the wedding day is chosen - the bride will announce the wedding date with invitations and a gift of cookies made in the shape of the moon • Dowry: Carried to the groom's home in a solemn procession. Bride-price is sent to the bride by the groom's parents • Procession: Groom visits the bride's home and brings her back to his place • Marriage and Reception: Couples recite their vows, toast each other with wine, and then take center stage at a banquet • Morning after: Bride will serve breakfast to the groom's parents

8. Practices • Death: • At death, relatives will cry out to inform the neighbors • Family will start mourning and puts on course material for clothes • Corpse will be washed and placed in a coffin • Mourners bring incense and money to pay for the cost of the funeral • Food and significant objects are placed into the coffin • A Buddhist or Taoist priest will perform a burial ritual • Friends and family will follow the coffin to the cemetery (A willow branch will symbolize the soul of the person who died) • Latter's are carried back to the family altar where it is used to "install" the spirit of the deceased • Public worships occur on the 7th , 9th , 49th day after the burial and on the 1st and 3rd anniversaries of the death

9. Confucius Thought K’ ung Fu-Tzu. • His vision centered on respect children show to their parents; • The high regard given elders and lawful authority figures; • And an appreciation for learning protocol and ceremony Mencius • Believing in the innate goodness of all people • Popularized the “five relationships” concept • Father-Son • Ruler-Minister • Husband-Wife • Old-Young • Friend-Friend

10. Confucius Thought Hsun-Tzu • Thought all individuals were evil • He promoted the cultivation of rituals, thought as them as antidotes to solve humankind's evil Kung te Cheng • Spokesperson on the Confucian values Sun-tzu • Shows how superior mental attitudes can effect military and political changes • Such as: Messing with the enemy’s mind and ruining his plans

11. Confucius Belief • Three dimensions of the human condition • The Self • Community • Tradition • Self cultivation is: Healthy body, mind, and heart, if they have a pure soul and brilliant spirit they are seen as good

12. Confucius Belief Cheng • Being in a state of absolute quiet and inactivity: being sincere, authentic, real Shen • Spirituality • Concerns “Heavenly aspect of the soul.” Chi • Self-Transformation • “Originating power, an inward spring of activity...a critical point at which one's direction toward good or evil is set” • “Flourish the soul”

13. Confucius Belief Community • Necessary for Self-Transformation to occur • Four visions that identify the classic Confucian vision of the world: • Ability to respond to the world in a poetic sense • Social sense of ritual as means for verbal and non-verbal communication within the "human community“ • Historical ability to relate to the collective memory • Politics as responsive and responsible to the whole community

14. Confucian Ethics Jen • Benevolence, humanness, human-hearted • Courtesy and Unselfishness • Diligence, steadfastness, and magnanimity of heart • Mission to make the world safer and more livable Chun-tzu • Mature, cultivated human person • Opposite of petty, mean – spirited human individuals

15. Confucian Ethics Li • Religious Ceremony and Rite • Describes the way things are done • Manners are orders to behavior and family relations, that honor elders • Family is the most important social institution that imparts ways of learning to be human

16. Neo-Confucian Practice Chu Hsi • Practices moral discipline Wang Yang-ming • Knowledge found within the mind, basis at which you view humanity, rather than external patterns

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