What is Confucian ethics?

Three cardinal guides and five permanents in Confucian ethics

This concept of Ming Jiao is an important part of Confucian political thought, that is, to educate the world through Ming Jiao, so as to maintain social ethics and political system.

The "Three Cardinal Principles" means that "the monarch is the minister's guide, the father is the son's guide, and the husband is the wife's guide", which requires that the minister, son and wife must absolutely obey the monarch, father and husband, and also requires the monarch, father and husband to set an example for the minister, son and wife. It reflects a special moral relationship between monarch and minister, father and son and husband and wife in feudal society.

The "five permanents", namely, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faithfulness, are the code of conduct used to adjust and standardize the interpersonal relationship between monarch and minister, father and son, brother, husband and wife and friends.