Confucianism

Chinese ethical and philosophical system

24 dated entries naming Confucianism, drawn from 24 separate years between 403 BCE and 1602 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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5th century BC

403 BCEMarquis Wen of Wei ascends to power in Wei. He sponsors Confucianism and employs able political advisors such as Li Kui, Wu Qi, and Ximen Bao.source

3rd century BC

268 BCEFu Sheng (Master Fu), Chinese Confucian scholar (d. 178 BC)source
264 BCEThe Confucian philosopher Xunzi visits the State of Qin. He writes of his and others' admiration for the government officials of Qin, who he says are serious and sincere, free from the tendency to form cliques. The Qin officials are disciplined by a meritocracy of rather harsh methods imposed by the Legalist philosophy.source
213 BCEEmperor Qin Shi Huang and Prime Minister Li Si order all Confucian writings destroyed in the burning of books and burying of scholars.source

2nd century BC

191 BCEEmperor Hui of Han lifts the ban on Confucian writings ordered in 213 BC.source
179 BCEDong Zhongshu, Chinese scholar who is traditionally associated with the promotion of Confucianism as the official ideology of the Chinese imperial state (d. 104 BC)source
178 BCEFu Sheng (Master Fu), Chinese Confucian scholar and writer (b. 268 BC)source
136 BCEConfucianism is adopted as the state religion in China by Emperor Wu.source
134 BCEOn the advice of philosopher Dong Zhongshu, Emperor Wu of Han promotes Confucianism as the official doctrine of the Han dynasty and assigns special merit to the Book of Rites, the Classic of Music, the Classic of Poetry, the Book of Documents, I Ching (the Book of Changes) and the Spring and Autumn Annals.source
104 BCEDong Zhongshu, Chinese scholar who promoted Confucianism at the central court of the Han dynasty (b. 179 BC)source

1st century BC

81 BCESang Hongyang and 60 Confucian scholars debate over the state monopoly of Iron and Salt.source

1st century

30Jia Kui, Chinese Confucian philosopher (d. AD 101)source

2nd century

195Wang Su, Chinese official and Confucian scholar (d. 256)source

5th century

446Three Disasters of Wu: The Northern Wei dynasty begins persecuting Buddhists, having heretofore encouraged them. The drain of manpower and tax money to temples and monasteries has threatened the secular government, and the reaction is fierce: monks and nuns are murdered, temples and icons destroyed. All men under age 50 are prohibited from joining any monastic order in a program that will continue until 450, helping the Confucianist philosophy of the Han dynasty to gain dominance over Buddhism.source

6th century

557Ouyang Xun, Confucian scholar (d. 641)source

7th century

604Prince Shotoku, imperial regent of Empress Suiko, issues a Seventeen-article constitution, based on both Confucian and Buddhist principles in Japan.source
641Ouyang Xun, Confucian scholar and calligrapher (b. 557)source
645Emperor Kōtoku establishes the Taika Reform: a land reform based on Confucian ideas and philosophies from China (approximate date)source

10th century

984Choe Chung, Korean Confucian scholar and poet (d. 1068)source

11th century

1068Choe Chung, Korean Confucian scholar (b. 984)source

12th century

1133Zhang Shi, Chinese Confucian scholar (d. 1181)source

13th century

1234Ou Shizi, Chinese Confucian scholar (d. 1324)source

14th century

1369The Hongwu Emperor of the Chinese Ming dynasty issues a decree ordering every country magistrate in the empire to open a Confucian school of learning.source

17th century

1602The iconoclast and Confucian scholar Li Zhi commits suicide while in a Chinese prison, during the late Ming dynasty; he had taught that women were the intellectual equals of men and should be given equal opportunity in education; he was charged with spreading "dangerous ideas".source