Jin And The Period Of Assistance Confucianism, Buddhism And Taoism Culture Phenomenon Analysis

The Confucianism,Buddhism,and Taoism,known as China's three major religions,has a long history."Zhoushu" recorded Northern Zhou Wu-Emperor had gathered Ministers,monks and Taoists discussing the advantages of the three religions on the Northern and Southern Dynasties. During the two millennia of social development,the relationship of the three religions developed from contacting to three independent forces, knitting a colorful history of relations between the three religions and leaving very valuable knowledge of different cultures to get along with each other harmoniously.In history,the three religions have been despite controversy,and even struggle,but most cases,they adopted a tolerance,moderate and respect attitude towards each other, implementation of harmonious development way.Wei and Jin Dynasties were the beginning of the three religion relationship history,they planted the seeds of the harmonious development and laid the foundation of coexistence.Soon after the establishment of the Taoism on the Wei and Jin Dynasties,a large number of Taoist factions come into being in the face of complex social environment.In order to survive,every faction of the Taoist imitated,absorbed and integrated of nutrients from Confucianism and Buddhism to enhance the quality of their own religion. This paper focuses on the topic that Taoism absorbed and integrated of nutrients from Confucianism and Buddhism on the Wei and Jin dynasties.There are three parts in this paper:The first part mainly introduces the social background of Wei-Jin period and the three religion development situation.Wei and Jin Dynasties,although it is in troubled times,but a variety of special factors within the society provided fertile ground for the religious development. The Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism are generally developed in the Wei and Jin periods,and the development of the overall trend is towards integration.The second part discusses the Taoist factions absorbed the nutrients from Confucianism and Buddhism at different levels.The Tian-shi faction(Longhu faction),the Shang-qing faction,and the Dan-ding faction(Gehong represented),mainly absorbed the nutrition from Confucian;Lingbao mainly absorbed the nutrition from Buddhism.The third Part analyzes the different development trend of every Taoism faction.The Taoism factien which chose to integrate of nutrients from Confucianism and Buddhism developed very well,but In contrast others choosing not to integrate nutrients disappeared gradually.I think it is very important for Taoism development to integrate of nutrients from Confucianism and Buddhism.It is also the inevitable trend of historical development.We must note that it is not easy for Taoism to make successful integration of nutrients from Confucianism and Buddhism.If any Taoist faction integrated of external content inappropriately will lead to their own weakness(such as Lingbao faction).