“I prefer reciting the original to creating new ideas”，said by Confucius in The Analects of Confucius . This sentence is usually misunderstood as his scholarship style，which is conservative. Actually，in the perspective of Confucian origin，Confucian mythology and oral culture then，we will find that the sentence has the religious characteristics of the original thereby being authentic，accurate thereby being effective，homologous between witch and history writing，thus indicating the inherent religiousness in the Confucian humanism.