¨How can we assess the ways that the Tang and Song Dynasties used Confucianism to
maintain social order?¨
Confucianism had naturally changed over the centuries since the time of Confucius (ca. 500 BCE). ... With roots in the late Tang dynasty, the Confucian revival flourished in the Northern and Southern Song periods and continued in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties that followed.
