独尊儒术

dismiss the hundred schools, revere only the Confucians (slogan of the Former Han dynasty)

alone / independent / single / sole / only

to revere as sole orthodoxy / to hold supremacy (of a religion, ideology, cultural norm, social group etc) / to be dominant

senior / of a senior generation / to honor / to respect / honorific / classifier for cannons and statues / ancient wine vessel

scholar / Confucian

method / technique

various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea

Dismiss the hundred schools, revere only the Confucian (idiom) / sole dominant ideology