Chinese Belief Systems

What is a philosophy?

• A wise man.

• A set of beliefs about the world and how to live.

• The way China was unified

• The name of the teachers who helped China.

What is filial piety?

• Living correctly.

• Focusing on nature.

• Having respect for parents and government officials.

• A man who taught about how people should behave in society.

What role did ancestors play in ancient Chinese religion?

• If family members took care of their ancestors, the ancestors would protect them.

• They would talk to them in the temples.

• They told them how to behave in society.

• They tried to be just like them.

What did Confucius teach?

• How to do linear equations.

• An orderly society is based on the relationships between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, older and younger brothers and two friends.

• That wanting things was the root of all evil.

• That they needed to read the book "The Book of The Way".

How did Confucianism and Daoism onto the different solutions to the chaos of the Warring States Period?

• They both taught that if we could all agree to get along there would be no wars.

• Confucianism said that if people would live in harmony with nature all would be well. Daoism taught that people needed to stop wanting things.

• They both taught that people needed to work harder and trust the government and then they would be happy.

• Confucianism said chaos would end if ruler governed well and justly. Daoism said that Chaos would end if people lived simply and followed the Dao.

The spirits who lived on Earth...

• ruled the daily lives of people.

• brought bad luck to those they didn't like.

• required a daily offering in order to avoid bad luck.

• kept animals and people safe.

Once paper money was invented people would burn fake "spirit" money to

• buy their way into heaven

• give money to their ancestors in the afterlife

• pay to make the bad spirits go away.

• pay the spirit to grant them good luck

Confucius believed that the cause of disorder was due to

• Chinese people not being educated.

• Chinese people had turned away from the traditional role and values of the early Zhou.

• Chinese people no longer honored their ancestors.

• Chinese people were not working hard enough to make China great.

What was Confucius' book titled?

• The Book of the Way

• The Analects

• The Yin and Yang

• The Filial Piety

Who was the founder of Daoism?

• Laozi

• Confucius

• Buddah

• King Wu