Confucianism is based on the Five Religions and Five Rites in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, with Yao and Shun as ancestors, a civil and military charter, Tiandi as religious leader and Confucius as teacher, and a Shinto in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Confucianism takes "Confucianism" as its highest belief and is highly respected by Confucian scholars. In order to distinguish it from Taoism, which advocates Taoist thoughts such as Huang Lao Lie Zhuang, later generations called it "Confucianism" from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and "Confucianism", which was religiously taught by Confucianism in the Qing Dynasty, also belonged to a branch of Confucianism. Confucianism has obvious cultural characteristics in China, which reflects China's cultural thought.
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The meaning of Confucianism is the education and enlightenment that Confucianism is engaged in. This kind of education and enlightenment not only refers to the aristocratic education in schools, but also includes the education of the general public. This kind of religion is not education in the modern sense, but education and enlightenment by the gods, that is, "Shinto teaching". According to the Confucian interpretation, this sentence means educating the people with Shinto, which is easy for the people to accept and obey.
Some people later interpreted this sentence as a misunderstanding of Confucianism, which means that Confucianism itself does not believe in God, but only uses God to educate the people. In all the existing Confucian documents, there is no record that Confucianism does not believe in God. In order to maintain the belief of higher and more important gods, Confucianism sometimes attacks or denies some lower-level gods, just as Christianity often attacks other gods.