The Communist Party: Social Morality In Ancient China

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It is well-known that Ancient China is one of the four great ancient civilizations, and traditional Chinese culture value morality most. Social morality basically means social beliefs about what is right behaviour and what is wrong behaviour, and there are three main teachings in China set the tone of social morality of Chinese culture: Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, which are foundations of Chinese culture with an emphasis on virtue and kindness. Confucianism focuses on cultivating one’s own virtues, while Taoism and Buddhism more focuses on after man being virtuous he will eventually get good results (find true self or have a good life in his next life). But overall it’s all encouraging Chinese people to be kind. Moreover, obviously, …show more content…
After 1949, the CCP used giant resources to destroy the traditional Chinese culture for the following reasons: Firstly, the “philosophy” of the Communist Party completely contradicts the authentic traditional Chinese culture. Traditional culture respects the mandate of heaven. Confucianism believes in heaven; both Buddhism and Taoism are forms of theism and believe in the karmic causality of good and evil. The CCP, on the contrary, not only believes in atheism, but also assaulting heavenly principles. Since the CCP believes in atheism, the CCP against lots of things that the traditional Chinese culture values. Secondly, the emperor is a “son of heaven” in the eyes of the people in traditional Chinese culture; if the emperor makes mistakes people can point out and if the emperor was immoral and unenlightened people might rise up to overthrow him. However, the CCP could not accept traditional beliefs such as these; the CCP wanted to canonize its own leaders (like Mao Zedong) and dedicate dictatorship. CCP destroyed the traditional culture in order to remove obstacles for their ruling. Thirdly, the traditional Chinese culture values moralities like harmony, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, honesty, loyalty and filial piety which are opposites of what the CCP values like prosperity, ranking, wealth, etc. For the belief in God in the …show more content…
After the CCP established a government, it regarded these three religions as “feudal superstition” and it began to destroy temples and religious places, burn scriptures and cultural materials, and force the Buddhist monks and nuns to return to secular life. The Cultural Revolution began in May 1966, and then soon after the CCP held “cast away the four olds”. The “Red Guards” destroyed the Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, Buddha statues, historical and scenic sites, calligraphy, paintings and antiques. The CCP not only to destroy the physical forms of religion and culture, it also destroys people’s spiritual identity formed by faith and culture. The CCP mislead their people by giving them false image and fake teaching of the traditional Chinese culture and these make people believe that the traditional Chinese culture is dross and outdated, so people lose their faith on their culture and what the traditional Chinese culture values like morality were destroyed which negatively impact the morality of Chinese
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