Why is "Confucianism" called "Four Old Concepts"?
During the Cultural Revolution, the slogans of "breaking the old four" and "establishing the new four" were put forward. It is believed that the biggest bane of China's national chaos in history is the Confucian hierarchy thought, which has produced bureaucratic privilege thought and academic hegemony thought. Learning hegemony leads to rigidity and lack of creativity in China. China people's way of learning is slave-like, with great emphasis on rote learning. Nowadays, education still attaches great importance to rote learning, and most of them can only learn to be nerds. People in China are used to looking for scholars and nerds with authoritative thoughts everywhere. The idea of hierarchical bureaucratic privilege has produced serious corruption, which eventually leads to chaos, national destruction and regime change. So Confucianism is old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits.