CONFUCIANISM

In my seventh class, we talk about Confucianism, as we all know this is not a very popular topic to discuss in business meetings or less at family gatherings, let see which is the definition of Confucianism and broaden a little more theme

Confucianism: is the oldest school of Chinese thought, and takes its name from the celebrated philosopher Confucius, who was his prime disseminator

According To Berling Confucianism is Often Characterized as a system of social and ethical philosophy rather than a religion, In fact, Confucianism built on an ancient religious foundation to Establish the social values, Institutions, and transcendent ideals of traditional Chinese society
Confucianism is a philosophical belief system consisting of doctrines (or teachings) moral and religious preached by Confucius.

Confucianism has a huge importance to Chinese culture, because of this many behaviors emerge, which define their culture and therefore can be called as the backbone of culture, as well as to our religion, Confucianism is the spiritual leader Chinese culture, (without being described as deligion) and as every doctrine, some values ​​that stand as they appear:

Human quality or benevolence: Rén
Righteousness: Yi
Challenges: Li
Wisdom: Zhi

What are the caracteristics that can be shown in actions or behaviors of Confucianism?

They are people who are very concerned about social harmony, care of people as if they were taking care of his own family, based on the experience to improve the mistakes made, where according to the theory of Hofstede : how every society has some links to Maintain With Its own past while dealing With The Challenges of the present and future (LTO) And Also have too much respect for the elderly, accounting for wisdom and experience. giving a lot value to hierarchies

-there are two terms which are exposed by confucianism 

GUANXI: is a general Chinese term used to

 describe relationships that may result in the exchanges of favors or "connections" that are beneficial for the parties involved. Sounds like a simple way to create business right? The truth is this type of relationship can become somewhat time consuming and complex. 

for this culture social relations are very important, people often depends on your network connections to solve problems or achieve goals, in China the real goal is not get to know as much people but the quality of the people you meet and with this there is almost nothing impossible to achieve, relationships are very respected and valued within this culture but especially when they have direct contact, for example, are not known from an acquaintance, but rather that you are friends directly related and there is something that is very resemblance to our own culture is that when one of these relationships has transcended barriers of trust can be given the label of a true friendship 

MIANZI: represents a person’s reputation and feelings of prestige (both real and imagined) within their workplace, society, their family unit and among their friends The concept of “face” can be more deeply understood  if one recalls that China has traditionally been (and continues to be) a highly hierarchical society. The position a Chinese person occupies relative to others (e.g. a boss to an employee, or a father to a son) is typically thought to command a certain degree of respect and requires certain types of behavior 

The values of Chinese society based on human feelings and less on religion, which makes it a little different from our culture, because we are still very much governed by the acts ue whether or not they are permitted by religion and not by look at the person as though this is what our religion taught us, what we do is just to follow the religion. The mianzi define the position of a person in your social network, is your status

THE WATER SYMBOL

Though this worldview is recognized as one of the eleven main living religions, it has no standard symbol or icon representing its belief system. Quite often, though, this Chinese ideogram for water is utilized. It represents the 'source of life' in Chinese philosophy

Finally I should mention something very important and useful for all those who are trying to negotiate with China, should be aware and very present some basic rules of that culture as it is different from ours and we procupara not overlook this

Punctuality: the Chinese are quite intolerant to wait
Greeted: Always greet the person with highest rank first
Take some present to them? Do not forget deliver with both hands and bowing slightly

¿ What is the influence of confucianism in our culture?

as we saw earlier Confucianism is a doctrine based on the human being, behavior and potential of their own qualities, and we can see the latest content in our culture is like now everyone has been influenced a little by the spiritual and for managing the mind and suspensamientos in order to concentrate more on the I and the powers of himself, as does Chinese culture, Confucianism teaches that there must be harmony between human beings, that we do not have the relogion I have learned, then as conclucion I can say we are a follower indirectly Confucian culture where we want to achieve the balance of this culture I have.

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