How Has Confucianism Changed Over Time

There are many cases in this class where we learned about the differences in China, Japan and Korean. Yet there are cases when this groups shared a common foundation. This included various times when the countries both decided to share the same quality. Such as China, Japan and Korea. There has been common grounds with Confucianism, Buddhism and writing systems. These were present in premodern with by spreading and involving other cultures into each other's religion or ideology as their own.

Confucianism has changed throughout China’s period of time. The start of confucianism was a way to view the world and build a foundation around. Although, this began to spread other ideologies and cross ideas. During the period Tang (618-906), Han Yu

was an important figure He was an confucius. There was conflict between main example would be the “Yet Han Yu’s opposition to Buddhism was not inflexible: he saw value in several aspects of Buddhism, especially Buddhist teaching practical aspects of Buddhism, especially Buddhist teaching practice that encouraged direct learning sessions between master and disciple” (De Bary 301). This demonstrated the involvement of Buddhism in Confucianism. Han Yu saw this opportunity to evolve the confucianism by seeing the similarities in both of the religion and philosophy. Buddhism was not an idealistic religion to him but he decided to use some aspects of Buddhism.
Japan began to be influenced by China from their religion, Buddhism. Japan wanted to stop being considered barbarians from the Chineses. They decided to involve religion and other Chinese influences to evolve. “Shotoku’s policy of internal formals was complemented by his attitude toward China. He realized how much Japan had to learn from China and wanted to cultivate good relations with the country.” (De Bary 641). This idea left with Japan involving China’s religion or ideology. They wanted to build a better relationship with the Chinese. They wanted to prevent the idea of an
Korean was influenced by China’s language and writing system. They started to involve the language in order to communicate with their people but as well make the language easier for them. They thought it would be best for them to use the same system similar to the chinese. This was shown to happened in “ They believed Korea had long emulated Chinese ideas and institutions and that the adoption of Korea’s own writing system would make it impossible to identify Korean civilization with that of China “ (De Bary 574). This showed how Korea’s reason behind having a similar culture experience. Although, it talked about the writing system, it demonstrated the back idea of those who This help make a better way to communicate those with a similar.
Overall, all this countries used some form of . This helped make their country improve by involving different aspects of countries. They all tried their best to involve this different religion and systems. They share each other’s difference with religion and ideologies by using them. They somehow helped improve each of them by making it better. This helped evolve the country as a whole because it allowed them to be open about their ideas. Most of the time Korean and Japan wanted to build a stronger connection with China. But, they began to learn to use it to develop their own way whether religion or ideology.