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Dong Zhongshu (Chinese: 董仲舒; Wade–Giles: Tung Chung-shu; 179–104 BC) was a Chinese philosopher, politician, and writer of the Han dynasty. He is traditionally associated with the promotion of Confucianism as the official ideology of the Chinese imperial state, favoring heaven worship over the tradition of cults celebrating the five ...
Dong Zhongshu was a scholar instrumental in establishing Confucianism in 136 bce as the state cult of China and as the basis of official political philosophy—a position it was to hold for 2,000 years.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dong Zhongshu (Tung Chung-shu) was responsible for establishing Confucianism as the theoretical foundation of the inchoate imperial state during the Han dynasty (206 BCE - 221 CE). Dong attempted to achieve a coherent system of thought that would provide a rational explanation for the entirety of human experience.
As the founder of imperial Confucianism, Dong Zhongshu (Tung Chung-shu) I f?f (1 79-104 B.C.E.) was the first prominent Confucian to integrate yin-yang theory into Confucianism.
Dong Zhongshu (179 BC — 104 BC), respected as Dong Zi or Dong Fuzi, was an accomplished philosopher, educator, and politician. He reformed Confucianism by absorbing ideas from other philosophical schools into an ideology that suited the development of the Han Dynasty.
Dong Zhongshu, probably the most influential Confucian scholar of the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE), laid an institutional basis for the Confucian orthodoxy and for the recruitment of able scholars as government officials through the examination system.
DONG ZHONGSHU (also Tung Chung-shu, c. 195 – c. 115 bce) is one of the most important thinkers of Han dynasty (206 bce – 220 ce) Confucianism. His concept of the relationship between Heaven and humans has been influential for the development of Confucianism.
