"What?" Pharamp asked. "Nothing," Sysko lied, "we were talking about the effect of Confucianism on modern Chinese socialism."
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Confucianism
Synonyms for "confucianism" (3 found)
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49 translations across 27 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- كُونْفُشْيُوسِيَة noun (philosophy)
- كُونْفُوشِيَّة noun (philosophy)
Catalan
1 entries- confucianisme noun (philosophy)
Chinese
3 entries- 儒學 /儒学 noun (philosophy)
- 儒家思想 noun (philosophy)
- 儒教 noun (philosophy)
Chinese Cantonese
4 entries- 儒學 /儒学 noun (philosophy)
- 儒家思想 noun (philosophy)
- 儒教 noun (philosophy)
- 孔教 noun (philosophy)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 儒學 /儒学 noun (philosophy)
- 儒家思想 noun (philosophy)
- 儒教 noun (philosophy)
- 孔教 noun (philosophy)
Danish
1 entries- konfucianisme noun (philosophy)
Dutch
1 entries- confucianisme noun (philosophy)
Finnish
2 entries- konfutselaisuus noun (philosophy)
- kungfutselaisuus noun (philosophy)
French
1 entries- confucianisme noun (philosophy)
German
1 entries- Konfuzianismus noun (philosophy)
Greek
1 entries- κομφουκιανισμός noun (philosophy)
Hakka Chinese
2 entries- 儒家思想 noun (philosophy)
- 儒教 noun (philosophy)
Hungarian
1 entries- konfucianizmus noun (philosophy)
Icelandic
1 entries- konfúsíusismi noun (philosophy)
Japanese
3 entries- 儒学 noun (philosophy)
- 儒教 noun (philosophy)
- 孔教 noun (philosophy)
Kazakh
2 entries- конфуциандық noun (philosophy)
- конфуцианшылдық noun (philosophy)
Korean
3 entries- 공교 noun (philosophy)
- 유교 noun (philosophy)
- 유학 noun (philosophy)
Polish
1 entries- konfucjanizm noun (philosophy)
Portuguese
2 entries- confucianismo noun (philosophy)
- confucionismo noun (philosophy)
Russian
1 entries- конфуциа́нство noun (philosophy)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- konfucijanizam noun (philosophy)
Spanish
1 entries- confucianismo noun (philosophy)
Swedish
1 entries- konfucianism noun (philosophy)
Thai
1 entries- ลัทธิขงจื๊อ noun (philosophy)
Turkish
1 entries- Konfüçyüsçülük noun (philosophy)
Urdu
1 entries- کنفیوشس مت noun (philosophy)
Vietnamese
4 entries- Khổng giáo noun (philosophy)
- Nho giáo noun (philosophy)
- Nho học noun (philosophy)
- đạo Khổng noun (philosophy)
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A third important part of Confucianism is the concept of chun tzu or "ideal gentlemanly behavior." Confucius believed that the ideal man "is kind and upholds moral principles. He is a man who loves learning, who is calm and perfectly at ease and constantly careful of his own conduct, believing that by example he has great influence over society."
Source: wiktionary
The Chinese New Year holiday period, being disrupted this year by the outbreak of a viral illness, has evolved over more than 3,000 years to become the most important of China’s traditional festivals. As celebrated in China and in many other places where its known as the Lunar New Year, it is largely a secular holiday, yet it includes rituals and traditions that derive from Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, as well as from ancient myths and folk religions.
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