What are the traditional Confucian moral values?

Morality includes benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith. The writing principles are enthusiasm, kindness, respect, frugality and accommodation.

Its core is benevolence and righteousness. The Book of Changes says that the way of heaven is yin and yang, the way of earth is rigid and soft, and the way of man is benevolence and righteousness. The spirit of "benevolence and righteousness" runs through the whole Confucianism.

Confucianism requires people to act according to the golden mean, which is a common practice. The moral standard of the golden mean is still the norm of China people's life.

The trip to the main road, serving the public, selecting talents and appointing talents, each in his place and doing his best, is the moral ideal of Confucianism. Self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and calming the world are the basic ways for Confucianism to carry out patriotic education and realize its political ideal of serving the world.

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Confucianism is the most influential school in ancient China after Dong Zhongshu's "exclusive respect for Confucianism". Confucianism, as the embodiment of China's inherent value system, is not an academic or school in the usual sense. Generally speaking, especially in the pre-Qin period, Confucianism was one of the most influential schools. And Mohism.

During the Qin Shihuang period, "burning books to bury Confucianism" was hit hard, and the idea of "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" rose after being put into practice in the Han Wudi period.

The Confucian theory of "rule by man" is an idea that attaches importance to the particularity of man, his possible moral development and his sympathy, and manages his rule as a changeable "man" with complex choice initiative and ethics. From this perspective, "rule by virtue" is closely related to "rule by man".

"Rule by virtue" emphasizes the process of enlightenment, while "rule by man" emphasizes the moralist himself, which is a kind of saint politics. Because Confucianism believes that "personality" has great appeal, on this basis, it has developed into extreme "rule of man" doctrine such as "governing the people for politics" and "governing the people cannot".

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