But in the Song Dynasty, the government promoted the publication of the Confucian texts called "The Canons." These texts had to be studied by examination candidates. Once you passed the ...

The Confucian school of idealist philosophers endeavored to re-establish a spiritual world for the people in the Song Dynasty, with their efforts to integrate Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

Goryeo adopted Confucianism as its political ideology and established ... Goryeo engaged in brisk trade with many countries, including the Song dynasty. Many traders from Song, Central Asia, Arabia, ...

Paul Crowe's primary area of research is Song (960–1279) and Yuan (1279–1368) dynasty traditions of self-cultivation with a focus on Golden Elixir alchemy (Jīndān 金丹). This necessarily entails study ...

Like Confucianism, jade ... Jade culture, particularly from the Song Dynasty (960-1279) onward, reflects this ethos. From the 10th century, antiquarianism became a guiding sentiment in jade ...

Zhu Xi revitalized the White Deer Cave Academy, making it the model for the popularization of Song and Ming Dynasty Confucian idealist philosophy and the model of academy-based education. His ...

The scholars had to be very familiar with the Confucian classical texts ... Faster growing rice distributed during the Song Dynasty helped prevent famine. NOVA: Did printing play a role in ...