What are the three principles and five constants of the Three Principles and Five Constants?

The three principles of the Three Principles and Five Constants are father for son, ruler for subject, husband for wife, and the five constants are benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith.

One of the Three Principles

1, the king for the ministers

The king is the main, the ministers for the subordinate; the king told the ministers to die, the ministers had to die, and so on the meaning of. In particular, it is required that the subjects should be "loyal" to the ruler and do their best and wholeheartedly for the ruler. Moreover, it is believed that only when the ruler treats his ministers with courtesy and the ministers treat the ruler with loyalty can the world be peaceful and stable.

2. Father is the program of the child

The social norms of parents and children. Parents are the program of the children, the leader, the superior, the meaning of instructions. That is to say, the words of the parents, the children have to listen to, or not to violate, and so on. Children must obey their parents' words and actions and must not offend them. And, filial piety and brotherly love are the norms of behavior for sons and brothers.

3. Husbands are the order of their wives

Husbands are the masters, and wives are the subordinates. As the husband's subordinate, a wife "starving to death is a small matter, but the loss of modesty is a big matter", with this behavioral norms reflecting the relationship between husband and wife, and denounce the practice of remarriage of women in the event of the death of their husbands.

Second, the Five Constants

1, Ren

Ren is the heart of the Tao. It is fraternity and kindness. Mencius said: "We care for the old as well as the old, and we care for the young as well as the young", to extend their love for their loved ones and others is benevolence.

2, righteousness

Yi is the movement of the Tao. The righteousness is also appropriate. Words and actions that conform to moral norms are righteousness. If benevolence is a moral concept, righteousness is the specific implementation of this moral concept, benevolence and righteousness are generally used as a representative of morality, the so-called "benevolence and righteousness".

3. Ritual

Ritual is the use of Tao. Rituals are the basic etiquette and norms of life that are established for the purpose of restraining and regulating morality.

4. Wisdom

is wisdom. People without wisdom will only be selfish and self-interested; only those with wisdom will truly understand the meaning of benevolence and will practice the way of benevolence.

5, letter

is honesty, trustworthiness, not hypocrisy. Faith is close to righteousness, is one of the important contents of a person's moral cultivation, but also the foundation of the country, the foundation of the people, this is also recognized by the Chinese nation's moral standards and basic virtues.

The impact of the Three Principles and Five Principles:

1, the negative impact of the Three Principles and Five Principles

Since the Han Emperor adopted the opinion of Dong Zhongshu, "Dismiss the hundred schools, and revere only the Confucians," the educational ideology, the Chinese traditional culture for more than 2,000 years have centered around Confucianism. "Through the "Three Principles and Five Constants," leaders have regulated social morality so that all classes of society can live and work in peace and contentment. People abide by the moral principles rather than following someone's words and system, which is in line with human nature and the truth. Compared to today's social development, which may seem stagnant, in actuality, the four Confucian disciplines: virtue, speech, government and literature have been observed to maintain social stability.

2. Positive influence of the Three Principles

The Three Principles play a positive role in shaping the character of the Chinese nation: they emphasize the power of the subjective will, focus on temperance and morality, self-restraint and ambition, and emphasize one's social responsibility and historical mission.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Three Principles and Five Constants for the above