For people and society, Confucianism says: worry about the world first. Confucianism emphasizes human nature, Confucius advocates restoring to Zhou, Mencius advocates restoring to Yao and Shun, and Confucianism advocates rectifying the world with "virtue" and seeking Tao with great virtue.

Taoist thought talks about the nature and heaven of "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely" Taoist thought focuses on Heaven. Laozi advocates returning to primitive clan society, reorganizing the world with "Tao", being perfect, being good at thinking under the background of the universe, but finally putting himself into society.

2, promising and inaction

Confucianism is "being". Confucianism says that after China's entry into the WTO, it is governed by doing something, while Taoists say that doing nothing is born. However, Confucianism's "promising" and Taoism's "inaction" are essentially the same, and both advocate letting nature take its course. The difference is mainly the "time" of the argument. One "era" is to govern the world, and the other is troubled times.

Taoist thought is "nothingness". Confucian "being" comes first and Taoist "nothingness" comes last. The logical relationship between them is irreversible, otherwise, Taoist "nothingness" becomes meaningless. Different from Hegel's point of view, Confucianism's "being" is unconsciously transformed into "nothing" because of its lack of stipulation. On the contrary, it is precisely because there are too many regulations that we need to use "nothing" to eliminate it and realize a historic return.

3. People's thoughts

Confucianism mainly focuses on man, society, promising and man's responsibility, while Taoism focuses on heaven, nature, inaction and man's liberation. As a local culture in China, Confucianism and Taoism are rigid, flexible, yin and yang, social, natural, active, passive, responsible and liberated. They are both opposite and complementary, which have jointly created the traditional virtues and life spirit of the Chinese nation and merged into an inexhaustible source of oriental thought and wisdom.

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Historical background

During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, China society was in an epoch-making historical change. The royal family declined in the Zhou Dynasty, and the feudal patriarchal hierarchy was greatly destroyed. Feudal lords fought for hegemony and social unrest.

At this time, intellectuals representing the interests of all walks of life are extremely active and become an important social force. They have stepped onto the historical stage, written books and put forward solutions to practical social problems, forming a prosperous situation in which a hundred schools of thought contend. Among them, Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism and Mohism have the greatest influence. They each designed a set of plans for the emerging landlord class to end the separatist regime and realize reunification, which laid the foundation for the choice of social governance ideas after Qin and Han Dynasties.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the profound crisis caused by irreconcilable contradictions within society shook the authority of traditional culture, and the spirit of suspicion and criticism of traditional culture increased day by day. Even Confucius, the "ancestor of Yao and Shun, the charter of civil and military affairs", cannot but inject the spirit of the times into his own ideological system.

And the traditional culture should be properly transformed in order to establish a new harmonious order and psychological balance in social practice, which is particularly prominent in the Warring States period, because people have vaguely seen the dawn of a new era in the ruins of the collapsed old world.

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