What were the Confucian doctrines before Dong Zhongshu in the early Han Dynasty?

China's Confucianism originated from Taoism.

Confucianism is a religion founded by Taoist nobles as priests to systematically select slave-like "people" to become free "Confucianism".

The rise of Confucianism is actually a vigorous "abolitionist movement". This kind of political activity only borrows the form of religion. China's transition from slave society to feudal society was initiated by Zhou Gongdan, an outstanding Taoist theorist, politician and philosopher in the early Zhou Dynasty.

Therefore, the theory of Confucianism, first of all, is the Taoist study of Huang and Lao emperors.

However, in the process of Qin Shihuang's "burning books", the first theoretical work of the Yellow Emperor was burned, resulting in the loss of Confucian classics, which has been lost to this day, and "the learning of Huang Lao's emperor" became "the skill of Lao Zi's emperor".

Confucian classics include Jing Yue (pop music), The Book of Songs (pop music lyrics), Shu Jing (historical allusions) and The Book of Changes (divination reference books). As a branch of Taoism, Qin Shihuang burned all books except the Book of Changes on a large scale (because the legalists themselves wanted to use the Book of Changes).

However, the readers of the lower works "The Book of Songs" cannot be completely eliminated. Therefore, Qin Shihuang mastered the core Taoist alchemists of advanced belief books, advanced skill books, Jing Yue and advanced prophecy books to ensure the effect of "burning books".

The basic theories of Confucianism in the early Han Dynasty were The Book of Songs and The Classic, but there were still some deviations in everyone's memory, thus forming different schools of Confucian classics.

Other Confucian classics of great value include the Tao Te Ching believed by Qin Shihuang and its successor Han Feizi. In fact, they can also be said to be "legal classics" in a sense.

In addition, there are Confucian Analects and personal monographs Mencius and Xunzi, as well as Mo Zhai's Mozi which originated from Confucianism and martial arts.

And various art of war represented by Sun Tzu of Confucian military school and Guiguzi of auxiliary military school.