Influences of Chinese Culture I feel so blessed and thankful to represent my school there and to observe the great T’ang governmental system here in China and return there to assume official position. By the time you receive this letter from me, I’m pretty sure that you are so much excited to know how am I enjoying my trip and my experience of The Hundred Schools of Thought. Of the various schools, five proved to have the most lasting significance for Chinese culture: Confucianism, Daoism, Moism, Naturalism, and Legalism. The body of thought that had the most enduring effect on subsequent Chinese life