Buddhist teachers could adapt the Dharma to the Chinese setting.
And so, as mentioned earlier, the practice of making merit could be applied to one’s own parents in the afterlife, which would be more appealing from a Chinese perspective.
And one could promise the potential to attain enlightenment in this lifetime, which would probably appeal to the more pragmatic or utilitarian values in Chinese culture. After all, why wait millions of years for enlightenment if you can get it in this lifetime?