[AdrianEGraphene]

Learning this term was required to move on to the next belts in my Taekwondo classes, thought it was a South Korean thing, but I guess not. I've only ever heared of Filial Piety a few times out of that environment.

[lavishlatern]

Imperial China is basically the Greek/Roman empire of East Asia. Both of these civilizations made deep and lasting impact on the culture of East Asia and Europe/North Africa/West Asia respectively.

Confucius is like Chinese Plato/Socrates.

[witchesindublin]

China only really had a strong impact in China and Korea - though a lot of Chinese people tend to overstate their impact for cultural chauvinism. Outside of possibly the Viet region as well, Chinese culture has had little impact. Imperial Chinese culture has had relatively little impact in the rest of East Asia (Philippines, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia etc...), and most of the Chinese culture in these regions is from recent immigration in the past century or so.

EDIT: not sure why the post is being negged considering it's basically true. I suggest people actually travel around the region and find out how little Chinese culture has impacted East Asia. I am a long term resident of East Asia and I understand the culture more than most Chinese people.