From the beginning, people tried to explain the world around him. This is called philosophy and is a Greek word meaning "love for wisdom". But it has meant more in the past few thousand years. The philosophy of ancient Chinese, whether it explains nature or to propose a correct lifestyle, becomes very complex, simple prose can not express its meaning properly. Paradoxically, however, a simpler, less accurate form of poetry suggests these ideas. Nothing is exemplified except for the documents of the two major schools of Taoism and Confucianism in ancient Chinese thought.
Heavenly Garden (Simplified Chinese: Idyllic Poems; Traditional Chinese: Idyllic Poems; Pinyin: tiányuánshī; Wade-Giles: t'ien-yuan-shih; literally: "Fields and Garden Poetry") It is totally contrasting. Poetry movement continued for hundreds of years, focusing on the natural landscape of the garden, the backyard and the cultivated countryside. Tian Ye Shi Yuan is a kind of poetry in Chinese classical poetry. One of the major practitioners of field and garden poetry type is Tao Yuanming (aka Tao Qian (365-427), another name or version name). Tao Yuanming is thought to be the first great poet related to Amagi poetry.
Poetry has created philosophical thought and writing in China. 100 widely acclaimed ideas have produced some of the most important Chinese classical philosophies. The author of this work includes Confucius, Mo Yan, Mencius, Lao Tzu, Teng Shi and others. These writers have five classics and four books, more specifically "Confucius of Confucius", "Classic of History", "Meng's Work", "Spring and Autumn", "Book of Change", "Meaning Doctrine ", classics created Great learning These are works of philosophy, not literature, but have a big impact on Chinese society.
In modern times, Chinese philosophers have taken philosophical thinking of Western. Chinese Marxist philosophy developed under the influence of Mao Zedong, and China's pragmatism of the rise of Hu city and the new Confucianism was influenced by Xiong Shili. Modern Japanese thinking was developed under the influence of a strong Western influence such as Western scientific research (Rangaku) and modernist Meirokusha knowledge society derived from European enlightenment. In the 20th century, the rise of national Shintoism and Japanese nationalism. The influential and unique Japanese philosophy school Kyoto School was born from medieval Japanese Buddhist philosophy like Western phenomenology and Degan.
From the 19th century to the 20th century, Chinese philosophy took in the concept of Western philosophy. Revolutionaries of the Qing Dynasty who participated in the revolution of 1911 regarded Western philosophy as a substitute for traditional philosophical schools and students of May 4 requested complete abolition of China's ancient imperial system and practice did. In this era, Chinese scholars are trying to incorporate Western philosophical thought such as democracy, Marxism, socialism, liberalism, republicanism, anarchism, nationalism into Chinese philosophy. The most famous example is Three Principles of the ideology of Sun Yat-sen people and Mao Zedong's "Mao Zedo thought", which is a variant of Marxism - Leninism. In the modern People's Republic, the official ideology is Deng Xiaoping's "market economy socialism".