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Confucianism and original Taoism is not religion, they are philosophy about life. If you study carefully and deeply, both of them is talking about freedom of human against their natural or instinct. The different is Confucianism is base on the view of Society and culture, while Taoism is from the angle of view of natural way (Dao).
And Buddhism is a religion that originally from India, and eventually evolve in China, majorly there is 3 sects of Buddhism; India, Tibet and China, and of cause the Tibet Buddhism has evolved and influenced by Tibet culture, and China Buddhism is influenced by Confucianism and Taoism too.
So there shouldn't be any issues of Why select Confucianism instead of Taoism and Buddhism, for they have no conflict among each other.
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