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The New Text School (631 words) |
 | The decree in 213 BCE of the First Emperor of the Ch'in dynasty that all books of the ritual schools were to be burnt, combined with the disruption caused by the civil war following the collapse of the central government, meant that the Confucian classics were either destroyed or concealed. |
| By the first century BCE the first versions had come to light, some of which were written in the archaic and obsolete script of the Chou dynasty, while others were in the new script commonly used and recognised at that time. |
| BCE) is the best known, took the latter as the authentic classics, onto which a new type of Confucianism was moulded which incorporated the ideas of the yinyang, the theory of the Five Elements, Taoist metaphysics and supernatural beliefs. |
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