Genealogy was created for the way of Koshi, which was quietly being passed down during the Han and Tang eras, and discussions about how a saint initiated another into Tao within Confucianism, where people would put themselves at the end of the genealogy, became popular.
漢唐時代には細々と伝承されてきたとする孔子の道に対する系譜が作られ、自己をその最後に置く道統論が盛んになった。