Confucianism and the State Religion

i feel like in my reading of western philosophy, that things like spontaneity and creativity are feared. When confucianism becomes the state religion, essentially a it looks a little different. China was unified through this very, kind of a pretty vicious and rational legalism. A is what we call the school. And then Confucianism kind of comes back, but it then takes advantage of all the structures that were put into place by legalism. So i think of what you're talking about is just a function of states. Once you get states, they want to control their citizens in certain ways. The first emperor of chin was not a touchy feole, let everyone