Goryeo adopted Confucianism as its political ideology and established ... Goryeo engaged in brisk trade with many countries, including the Song dynasty. Many traders from Song, Central Asia, Arabia, ...

The scholars had to be very familiar with the Confucian classical texts ... Faster growing rice distributed during the Song Dynasty helped prevent famine. NOVA: Did printing play a role in ...

Until the recent discovery, the world’s oldest manuscript of the Confucian Analects originated from the Song Dynasty between the end of the 12th century and early 13th century. The oldest one ...

Paul Crowe's primary area of research is Song (960–1279) and Yuan (1279–1368) dynasty traditions of self-cultivation with a focus on Golden Elixir alchemy (Jīndān 金丹). This necessarily entails study ...

Jongmyo is the oldest and most authentic of the Confucian royal shrines to have been preserved. Dedicated to the forefathers of the Choson dynasty (1392–1910), the ... Ritual ceremonies linking music, ...

Zhu Xi revitalized the White Deer Cave Academy, making it the model for the popularization of Song and Ming Dynasty Confucian idealist philosophy and the model of academy-based education. His ...