unfortunately, you are asking way too much… They didn’t change Jeanne that was the one ppl most complained about and you ask this people to add accurate historical details? let me sarcastically LOL…
Oh but the new halloween theme and biome looking great, and the new childish banners and rewards are on point… as if ANY player cared about that they still pay attention to that
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What would be a better civ name? It’s still going to be China focused around the same dynasties/country, so a normal nation name would be innacurate. Is Neo-Confucianist China a better name, or should it be China version 2? It basically what the variant is about.
I agree with your point of view. Instead of using the Zhu Xi’s Legacy, it is more appropriate to use the country of Confucianism (sorry for my poor English)
Zhu Xi’s revised version of Confucianism is based on one party’s lack of respect and unequal status towards the other, with a relationship of coercion, obedience, and domestication. It carries the outer shell of Confucianism, revealing the essence of oppression. Zhu Xi’s ideology became a means of maintaining royal order and feudal social hierarchy, believing that the monarch had absolute control over his subjects, parents over their children, and husband over his wife. Under the rendering of this mindset, a hierarchical system was formed between the monarch and subjects, father and children, and husband over wife. So, no matter what, the inferior cannot resist the superior. Moreover, this theory had a more profound impact on women. Before the Northern Song Dynasty, the social living environment for women was relatively relaxed, and even some women with better performance could participate in politics and even go to the battlefield to kill enemies. Since the Song Dynasty, the status of women has been decreasing. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, centralization and imperial power have also been strengthened to the pinnacle of supremacy. Therefore, society has also reached the limit of squeezing women’s space for survival. Using “Zhu Xi” as the name of DLC is an insult to China.
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The Confucian classics of Confucius and Mencius are the highest pursuit of democratic political ideals, and the people are always the masters of the country. It is precisely because of the people that there is a unified state, and it is precisely because of a large country that there is the role of a king. The change of political power should not be a family inheritance system, but should come from the public opinion of the people. The Confucian classics advocate the supremacy of personal dignity, praise for individual personality, and an attitude towards the arrogance of princes and nobles. Confucius advocated that the monarch should treat his subjects with courtesy, and the subjects should naturally be loyal to the monarch. The filial piety spoken between father and son should be a natural love and respect from the heart, and there is an equal relationship between the monarch and his subjects.
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So, what are Devs doing? What is the role of using a philosophical idea to represent the name of a civilization in games? This is a killing RTS game, is it using Confucianism to kill enemies? I hope that this new game DLC will have a completely different gameplay from before, can try to militarize China in the game instead of the economic development gameplay of China in the previous game. The new DLC in China can consider a militarized name, such as ‘Conqueror Dynasty’.
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I have the same feel about Jeanne’s of Arc variant, she is a revered catholic saint that never killed anyone and was martyred, and how devs are portraying her is disrespectful to the people who profess the catholic faith
Neo-Confucianism (Chinese: 宋明理學; pinyin: Sòng-Míng lǐxué, often shortened to lǐxué 理學, literally “School of Principle”) is a moral, ethical, and metaphysical Chinese philosophy influenced by Confucianism, which originated with Han Yu (768–824) and Li Ao (772–841) in the Tang dynasty, and became prominent during the Song and Ming dynasties under the formulations of Zhu Xi (1130–1200). After the Mongol conquest of China in the thirteenth century, Chinese scholars and officials restored and preserved neo-Confucianism as a way to safeguard the cultural heritage of China.[1]
Neo-Confucianism could have been an attempt to create a more rationalist and secular form of Confucianism by rejecting superstitious and mystical elements of Taoism and Buddhism that had influenced Confucianism during and after the Han dynasty.[2] Although the neo-Confucianists were critical of Taoism and Buddhism, the two did have an influence on the philosophy, and the neo-Confucianists borrowed terms and concepts. However, unlike the Buddhists and Taoists, who saw metaphysics as a catalyst for spiritual development, religious enlightenment, and immortality, the neo-Confucianists used metaphysics as a guide for developing a rationalist ethical philosophy.[3][4] Traditional Confucian beliefs such as gender roles were also included, leading to the devaluing of women in Korea.