Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, which is the source of China culture? Why?

China has a history of 5,000 years, and Laozi, the oldest founder of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, was born about 57 1 year BC, only 2,500 years ago, more than 2,000 years earlier than Laozi, so the source of China culture must be traced back.

China people claim to be descendants of the Yellow Emperor. Yan Di (Shennong) and Huangdi (Xuanyuan) are ancient ancestors that we can confirm now, and there are Fuxi and Nu Wa in front of them, but these are more mixed with ancient myths and cannot be proved by scientific evidence.

If it is the root of China culture, it is generally recognized as the Book of Changes.

The Book of Changes originated in Fuxi? A painting opens the sky? .

According to Confucius' statement in The Legend of Coherence, In ancient times, the king of Xi family was the king of the world. When he looked up, he looked at the sky. When he bowed his head, he looked at the law and the land. He looked at the culture of birds and beasts and the suitability of the land, taking everything near and far, so he started gossip to communicate the virtue of the gods and the feelings of all things. ?

Fuxi formulated the Eight Diagrams by observing and thinking about everything in the universe, which is the earliest prototype of the Book of Changes, also known as Fuxi Yi.

Fuxiyi later developed into Lian (lost) in Xia Dynasty, Yi (lost) in Tibet in Shang Dynasty, and Zhouyi was founded in Zhou Dynasty. ?

The Book of Changes has a lofty position in China culture and is called:

The first of the six classics, the beginning of the group classics, and the source of a hundred schools of thought.

Therefore, we can generally conclude that the Book of Changes is the source of China culture. More accurately, we can regard Fuxi's Tian Kai as the source of China culture.

The Western Zhou Dynasty survived from 1046 BC to 77 1 year BC, then moved eastward, and the Zhou Dynasty entered the second half of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which survived from 770 BC to 265 BC.

Laozi and Confucius were both figures in the middle and late Zhou Dynasty. Laozi was born about 57 1 year BC, and Confucius was born about 55 1 year BC, which was the late Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the early Warring States Period. Therefore, we can't regard them as the source of China culture. The theories of Confucianism and Taoism are all derived from the Book of Changes.

As for Sakyamuni, he was born in ancient India in about 565 BC, contemporary with Laozi and Confucius, while Buddhism was introduced to China later, probably in the late Western Han Dynasty and early Eastern Han Dynasty (around 60 AD). ?

After Buddhism was introduced into China, it was quickly assimilated and transformed by China culture, which was very different from Indian primitive Buddhism. The reason why we juxtapose Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, and sometimes even talk about the integration of the three religions, is precisely because they are all transformed from the China culture represented by the Book of Changes, and they are just three branches born from a trunk.