On this day, 112 years ago, on August 15, 1913 (July 14, 1913, the lunar calendar), Chen Huanzhang, Liang Qichao and others proposed establishing Confucianism as the national religion. On August 15, 1913, representatives of the Confucian Church Chen Huanzhang, Xia Zengyou, Liang Qichao, Wang Shitong and others wrote to the Senate and House of Representatives, requesting that Confucianism be clearly established as the state religion in the Constitution. Therefore, starting from the 21st, the governors and civil affairs chiefs of Zhejiang, Shandong, Hubei, Henan, Fujian, Jilin, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Anhui, Yunnan and other provinces have successively sent electricity to urge the Senate and House of Representatives to pass Chen Huanzhang and others to establish Confucianism as a national religion as soon as possible. application. At the same time, Yuan Shikai's legal adviser, He Changxiong, published an article in the "Confucian Church Magazine" advocating that the Republic of China should explicitly stipulate in the Constitution that "Confucianism is the foundation of the country's ethics and education" and proposed that "the state should establish schools and use Confucianism as the basis for ethical education. The state must establish Confucian degrees (Jinshi, Juren, Scholar), etc., and use state public funds to maintain Confucian schools.