Neo-Confucianism - History

✔️ Neo-Confucianism gained popularity in China during the Song Dynasty in the 11th century. 

✔️The roots of Neo-Confucianism date back to the Tang Dynasty when the spread of Buddhism necessitated a reaction from Confucian thinkers.

✔️As Buddhism and the reemergence of Taoism began to take hold within China, scholars reevaluated and reinterpreted Confucian philosophy into a new system of belief that addressed not only social and intellectual concerns but also spiritual ones.

Neo-Confucian teachings took hold in China and soon spread to Korea and Japan.