\What role do ancestors play in Chinese society?

Confucianism is an atheistic religion. Confucianism has no god. Ancestor worship is the heart of Confucianism. Other religions influenced China, but not as much as Confucianism.

In the sense of not humiliating our ancestors, it was a moral force traditionally inspired by Chinese culture. In the past, Chinese families had sacred places for their ancestors. Modern China no longer actively worships the ancestors, but the ancestral honor tradition still exists.

Chinese ancestral worship, also known as Chinese patriarchal religion, organized in ancestral society in Chinese traditional religion, ceremonial ceremonies around God's ancestor, and ancestral shrines It is one aspect of people of the same name. Patron Saint. Ancestors, their ghosts, souls, and God are considered part of the "world". That is, they are not supernatural (in terms of nature) or transcendental. Ancestors are human beings, they become godly beings, and they maintain personal identity. Therefore, the Chinese religion is based on the ancestral worship. Since ancestors are considered to be entities or duplicates of Heaven Creativity Order, their ancestors are considered a means of combining with the best power of the heavens.

It does not mean that Confucianism is not an important cultural heritage of China, but it also has no controversy that Confucianism has a reinforcing effect in ancestral worship. The clear purpose of this chapter is to show the correct placement of Confucianism in ancestral worship and Confucian relations and the Chinese cultural landscape conceptually dominated by ancestral worship. For many people Confucianism is the key to understanding the Chinese culture and the "Chinese lifestyle of the past 2000" (De Bary, Chan and Watson 1960, 15). It is the main story to understand Chinese culture and the main story of what this work is going to release. Together with Daniel Overmeyer (1995, 1) I believe that the past relied on philosophical texts too relied too much to understand the early Chinese spirit.