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The Han Empire and Confucianism
The handdinasty came to an end after over 400 years, which was a very long time at that time. The fact they still call their writing hans hand characters shows you how powerful the image was that the hand left. It certainly did forge the identity of the chinese state in a pretty definitive way. After that time, people thought, we wish we could get back to the great days of unity of the han empire when the tang rose in the seventh century. And this is the recurrent theme.