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    original legend is different, because in the movie Disney portrayed back the filial piety based on American people’s understanding and stereotypes on Confucianism. In this way Mulan described as a free individual who does not want to be bounded by the strict rules of Confucianism. Although, most of the time Mulan expresses her refusal to Confucianism, she still represents the value of filial piety to her father by disguising herself as a man warrior and taking her father’s duty in a war. In this sense

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    Confucianism, the philosophical ideas of Kong Qiu (551-479 BCE), or Confucius, has made a great impact on China’s history. His ideas came to pragmatic use since the rise of the Han Dynasty. Since then, political reforms and changes of China’s state has caused them to adopt and abandon it continuously. Confucius’s ideas still exists in other Asian countries too, like South Korea, where Confucianism passively saturates the daily lives and practices of South Koreans. But the country at hand is China

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    Direct Comparison #1 (similarity) Both Buddhism and Confucianism promote people to participate in good conduct. Direct Comparison #2 (similarity) Both Buddhism and Confucianism spread throughout parts of Asia with the help of the governments’ power. Direct Comparison #3 (difference) As women received more freedom and opportunity in Buddhism, women in Confucianism were inferior to men. Direct Comparison #4 (difference) In Confucianism, ancestors are worshipped whereas no one is worshipped in Buddhism

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    Han Dynasty Confucianism

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    During the powerful Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) Confucianism was adopted as the regime’s state doctrine and China thereby maintained a male dominated patriarchal society. Confucian principles were strictly adopted and the Chinese lives were considerably impacted by Confucius teachings. According to the Confucian order of society, women irrespective of age had to occupy a position lower than men. In a rigidly formed and tradition bound society, the Chinese women had to comply with stringent rules

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    affects the self of someone. Humans’ relationship with nature plays a significant role in Indigenous, Daoism, and Shinto religions. The Confucian virtues of Ren, Five Great Relationships, Li, Tian, and Yin and Yang all explain certain beliefs of Confucianism in different ways of life. Karma affects the self, or the soul, in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. According to Timothy Peckinpaugh, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism religions all believe that you are reborn into another life after this one.

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    dominate the country these being Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Though China is a large and beautiful country it does stick to these philosophies slash religions. Buddhism is a religion that was founded in northeastern India it has four key belief. One life is suffering, 2 Selfishness and greed cause suffering, 3 get rid of selfishness, and 4 Follow the middle path neither rich or poor also you will be reincarnated until you achieve Enlightenment. Confucianism is more of a philosophy instead

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    for the Byzantine empire. In Asia, the rise of civilizations created religions and philosophies such as Buddhism and Confucianism, but how did they become popular? It was because these beliefs were created to combat a certain problem at the time and offer solutions to such problems, how it can help oneself and others, and how to come to terms with such situation; with Confucianism helping the early government in China while Buddhism provided a alternative religion to ease the growing problems of

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    BCE to 400 BCE, Confucianism and Buddhism diverged greatly when it came to Buddhism’s egalitarian attitude and Confucianism’s more patriarchal attitude towards gender relations and the status of women. Also, the two belief systems also differed substantially in the types of obligations and requirements their adherents took part in with Confucianist requirements focused on society as a whole, and Buddhist requirements focused on personal and spiritual fulfillment. Both Confucianism and Buddhism developed

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    Confucianism and Legalism are philosophies that are influential in ancient China. Although the two philosophies both work to make people good in behavior, they have many differences including the beliefs, purposes, and the influences toward how people act. Confucius, the philosopher of Confucianism, and Hanfei and Shang Yang, the philosophers of Legalism, believed in different ways to make people good in behavior. Confucius believed that people are naturally good and should work on improving to

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    Hinduism, Confucianism and Buddhism are three of the world’s most distinguished belief systems of the past and for some, still in the present. The guidelines they provided influenced the social, political and religious lives of people within the societies that followed them. Hinduism emerged when the Aryans arrived in ancient India and began to combine their ideas with those of the Dravidians, the native population. One major Hindu idea was the caste system, which influenced the social lives of its

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