China culture, with Confucianism as the main body, is the only culture in ancient human culture that has never been interrupted and continues to this day. It covers a wide area, forming a vast and densely populated country. Before the mid-Ming Dynasty, the development level of economy, science and technology, culture and education in China was among the highest in the world, which promoted the development of world civilization in many aspects.

Confucian culture, represented by Confucius, can still spread abroad without relying on military force or government political background, and radiate to neighboring countries with great humanistic spirit-benevolence, kindness, harmony and moderation, forming a broad Confucian cultural circle. This fully shows that Confucius thought has had a great influence not only on Chinese civilization, but also on world culture.

In the first century, Confucius culture went south to Vietnam and east to Japan. As early as the early Ming Dynasty, North Korea established Sungkyunkwan Hall in Seoul, offering sacrifices to Confucius in the Confucian Temple, which promoted the development of culture, science and technology and social progress.

Looking back at the history of the above-mentioned civilization development and the influence of Confucius' theory on the East and the West, we can see that Confucianism, as the representative of China culture and Oriental culture, has its own value and composition that transcends regions and times, is the objective need of the development of world civilization, and is worthy of being absorbed and carried forward by today's mankind. However, everything has two sides. Confucius' thoughts also have a negative impact. One is conservatism. Confucius advocated "words without deeds, faith without faith". Emphasize inheriting the tradition of predecessors and don't make new creations by yourself. Lectures by oneself are mainly based on "three generations" classics; In his later years, when he wrote Chunqiu, he only emphasized "narration" but not "writing". Mencius and Xunzi, the Confucian masters after Confucius, all aimed at expounding Confucius' thoughts, and later generations took their works as the research object. "Words must be called Yao and Shun", "words that are not saints dare not speak". If you want to change, people will come back to attack you This deep-rooted conservative thought has suppressed people's creativity and made it difficult to produce and develop all kinds of new things. Looking back on the course of reform and opening up in the past 20 years, we can clearly see how the old ideas attached to the old system stubbornly hindered the reform and opening up, and how much people paid for emancipating their minds.

The second is to suppress people's personality. Let's take a look at some proverbs and maxims handed down from generation to generation: "The gun shoots the first bird", "The rafters that get up early rot first", "The wood in the forest is beautiful, and the wind will rush; Stacked on the shore, the water will flow quickly. " These words are warning people that society opposes self-expression and individuality, and advocates being a man and not crossing the line. Qu Yuan was loyal to Chu, but because of his distinctive personality, he attracted a lot of jealousy. As a result, he was exiled and eventually died because he had no choice but to sink into the river. Li Bai had the talent to be an official if he was good at learning, but because of his sharp edges, he was quickly excluded by the court. Even in modern society, people don't recognize the behavior of publicizing individuality. You have shown a little unusual personality, and you have made some outstanding achievements. Someone warned you: "Be modest, be cautious, and don't stand out too much." Until you "disappear from the public", public opinion subsides, everything is calm, and everyone is happy again. This kind of Confucian thought has a great negative impact on education. For thousands of years, teachers have educated students to be superstitious about saints and authorities, and asked students to accept only the teachers' ready-made conclusions and not be unconventional. Anyone who dares to doubt the teacher will be reprimanded or accused. Even in today's schools, although teachers advocate that students should dare to express their personal views and not be superstitious about authority, they subconsciously like students who follow the rules and guide students to seek common ground while reserving differences. We should do everything possible to tame students who have outstanding personalities and dare to stick to their own opinions, although we don't attack them.

The third is the idea of official standard. Feudal society is a hierarchical society, and the feudal hierarchical system has a deep-rooted influence on people. At that time, from the society to the family, public opinion hoped that people would instill the idea that "all people are inferior, only learning is high" and "learning is excellent to be an official". Therefore, the society takes a fancy to reading, and scholars take official career as the right path. Needless to say, even those great writers regard being used by the court as the highest pursuit of life. Once abandoned by the court, they are unhappy. People like Qu Yuan, Li Bai and Du Fu are all like this. Only a few people are truly detached. They hope to establish a utilitarian industry, but mistakenly believe that only being an official can achieve their goals in life, and being an official has become the unremitting pursuit of generations.