Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.
Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.
The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.
In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.
Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.