Confucianism aims at making not simply the man of virtue, but the man of learning and of good manners. The perfect man must combine the qualities of saint, scholar, and gentleman. Confucianism is a religion without positive revelation, with a minimum of dogmatic teaching, whose popular worship is centered in offerings to the dead, in which the notion of duty is extended beyond the sphere of morals proper so as to embrace almost every detail …showed first 75 words of 453 total…

…showed last 75 words of 453 total…s lifetime have been added. These include birth, reaching maturity, marriage, and death. Confucianism teaches the importance of harmony in the family, order in the state and peace in the empire, which they see as inherently interdependent. Teachings emphasize a code of conduct, self-cultivation and propriety, and thus the attainment of social and national order. Stress is more on human duty and the ideal of the "superior man" than on a divine or superabundance reality.