Confucianism

With a history of over 2,500 years, Confucianism started as rules of conduct or right behaviors. Despite the fact that Confucius himself rejected the supernatural, he was made a god after his death.

Confucianism is a complex system of moral, social, political, and religious teaching built up by Confucius on the ancient Chinese traditions, and perpetuated as the State religion down to the present day.

Confucianism aims at making not simply the man of virtue, but the man of learning and of good manners. The perfect man must combine the qualities of saint, scholar, and gentleman. Confucianism is a religion without positive revelation, with a minimum of dogmatic teaching, whose popular worship is centered in offerings to the dead, in which the notion of duty is extended beyond the sphere of morals proper so as to embrace almost every detail of daily life.

The Confucius temples usually have no statues, but simply tablets with the names of ancestors written on them. This is probably a combination of ancestor worship and Confucius' teaching of respect for the elderly. The largest Confucius temples are in Beijing and Qufu.

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