Thursday, February 14, 2013

Confucianism

During the Han Dynasty, Confucianism was the biggest religion. Confucianism was also a philosophy that was created by the philosopher Confucius.Confucianism believes everyone should reach harmony with the world. When someone with high authority was treating people well, it affected the lower class people to act the same way. This belief made it that people tried to reach that harmony with others. They tried to be kinder and have more respect. It gave people trust on one another. The religion set that not many rules would be put out. It gave the people more freedom but it also meant that the government had to set a good example so that the others would follow in their footsteps.
The Han Dynasty also had the religion Taoism. Taoism is similar to Confucianism. Taoism although focuses more on your individual spiritual self unlike Confucianism that focuses on moral life. This religion would make it harder for the people to be controlled. Since they were not afraid of death, they didn't care for much that was going to happen. It go out of control and be harder to put the country back in place. Both religions were considered good for the country. They were both big parts of it and probably affected daily life today.

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