User blog comment:JoAlter/Saber of Altered S I N/@comment-38196594-20190720142039/@comment-25848535-20190721005435

Ok, let me go over that again. *cough.

During the early ages of China, from Shang Dynasty to the Warring States period of Zhou Dynasty, there were different scholars who studies different subjects, and would proposed their thoughts and ideas to rulers of different areas, states, to make fame for themselves, and eventually, they set up schools to represent their idealogy. The period when the competition among these schools was most intense is known as Contention of a Hundred Schools of Thought. There are a few who stood out as the most influential ones.

Confucianism: Promote absolute power for Imperial, equal knowledge, absolute filial piety (one most mourn 3 years if their immediate families passed away).

Mohism: advance study of logistics, objections to wastage and non-constructive thoughts, equal love, non-offensive, a lot which is in conflict with Confucianism.

Taoism: study of nature and universe, believes human should follow laws of nature to achieve harmony with it, study of alchemy, immortalism

Legalism: Promote usage of absolute punishment and penalties, promote strict standards to be executed.

Other less influential are Nong'jia (Agriculturalism), War Philosophy, and the rarest of all, Diplomacy (or the School of Vertical and Horizontal Alliances).