Reflection on Confucianism Renaissance

Confucianism, generated from the culture of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, is the root of Chinese culture. The impact of Western culture on Chinese culture causes Confucianism to reflect on itself. The ideal of a ″harmonious society″ contained in Confucianism provides a rich source of thought for constructing today’s harmonious society. The Confucian tradition is a complicated ideological system consisting of three parts: political tradition, moral tradition and academic tradition, which can be properly distinguished among them today. The academic tradition refers to the tradition of academic ideas, which can provide meaningful academic resources, such as the unity of heaven and man, the unity of self and others, and the unity of body and mind. But these ideas need reasonable modern interpretation. The research on Confucianism today requires cultural subject-consciousness and the development and refreshment in the exchange and dialogue with other cultures, and especially a self-conscious thinking for the ″research problems″, so as to put forward a new solution.