The Significance Of Overcoming Death Anxiety To Transcending Death In The View Of Confucianism And Taoism In The Pre-Qin Period

The features of death are inevitability, unknown, end and so on, which make people impossible to escape from death and was full of anxiety. As a result, in different times, there had a large number of philosophers to discuss the value of life, hoping to find out the meaning of the death in the west and east. They wanted outdo death and had an immortal life, in order to console the uneasy soul. The Chinese traditional culture of Confucianism and Taoism, regarded the value of life, which had an enormous impact on the spiritual and social life in ancient China. All this is significance and influence in the contemporary.Confucians had a positive attitude towards life, and used life to observe the death, to explore the meaning of death. Then overcome the anxiety of death and had an immortal life. They saw the man's own endless. Social and the blood give a person the energy when people integrate with the family, clan, blood, country and world. In themselves there were some certain factors would be immortal, developed with all these macrocosms, large or small. Therefore, Confucians worked hard to encourage people to struggle, to make ethical responsibility, and sacrifice for the community. Did all of these would have a perfect moral life in order to achieve peace ending. Taoists had a negative attitude to life and used death to observe death. They sought "Tao" to support the meaning of life in the nature. As an individual of person, lives couldn't continuation with blood or society, but with the "Tao" to get immortality. People just need to follow the operation of "Tao", to achieve integration with nature, or time. Then, got rid of the tired in secular world and had a significance of ending.Confucianism and Taoism discussed the life and death from a different angle, but came to the same conclusion to respect and cherish life. They attached the importance of integrity, whatever the universe, the nature, humanity, society or the blood. This is a reminding to the continued expanded desires for modern people. Selfishness can't rid of anxiety but more. But if integrate the individual life to the whole, you will be possible to achieve immortality beyond death.