State policy of dismissing the hundred schools of thought and honoring only Confucianism; first proposed by Dong Zhongshu to Emperor Wu of Han to unify ideology and consolidate central authority

Extremely conceited and autocratic; to think of oneself as the most important person in the world.

Thinking of oneself as the most honorable or important; arrogant, autocratic, and bossy; originally from a Buddhist legend about the Buddha's birth.

To ban all other schools of thought and establish Confucianism as the sole official ideology; a policy famously adopted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.