如何用英语介绍儒家文化

“If a mat was not straight, he would not sit on it.”

“Do not chat while eating, and do not talk after retiring.”

What do you think of these sentences? You may know that maybe they are some Family instructions. But you can hardly imagine that all of them are about religion. It is Confucianism.

Sometimes Confucianism is viewed as a religion. But if you study it seriously, you will find that it is not just a religion like Christianity, it’s a worldview, a social ethic, a scholarly tradition, and a way of life.

Its heart does not lie in service to the sacred creator God but rather in sacred nature of family relationships and social relationships----the vital energies of nature.

Nevertheless, if a religion means finding a sense of the sacred in healthy relationships in this world, then it is a religion. This kind of Confucianism is described for ordinary people, and it is suitable of we might call it daily life Confucianism for the 21st century or, for short, living Confucianism.

Living Confucianism is an attitude that a person takes in daily life, is an approach to life which finds the sacred in community itself.

And The sacred is found in preparing and sharing meals with family and friends over a dinner table; in harmonious and respectful relations in the workplace; in being a gracious and hospitable host to guests; in loving and appreciating the gift of learning.

Buy doing this, it can make a person in a situation which is full of respect and love. Then all of us will live in a harmony society by imitation.

Confucianism is created in each society circles of reciprocal relationship, making social relations sacred, harmonizing human existence with vital energies of nature, and respecting the creative power of the universe.