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Author(s):: JIAN Man-tun; School of Philosophy and Sociology, Beijing Normal University

Keywords:: northern Song dynasty; Confucianism; Buddhism; Taoism; imperial examination; education

Abstract:: In the northern Song dynasty, Confucianism became the main value system, with Buddhism and Taoism as the subsidiary systems. Although Buddhism had political support to some extent,but if a specific time was not considered as a period and a specific group’s interests as a standard, from the perspective of influence, what could be described as the dominant social value system was still Confucian moral value system. The development of Buddhism regulation and education, as well as the achievements of the imperial examination system and the folk education guaranteed the position of Confucianism in the system level. The reform starting from Qingli caused writers sense of the revival of Confucianism.In Xining reform period, the theoretical activities of the philosophers such as five scholars, WANG An-shi and SIMA-Guang et al in the northern Song dynasty completed the process of Confucian absorption of Buddhism and Taoism essence and Confucian construction.