What are the core ideas of Confucius?

Confucius' core ideas are "benevolence" and "propriety".

The idea of "benevolence" is to "love people with benevolence", which requires the ruling class to be sensitive to the people's feelings and to oppose tyrannical government. According to Confucius, in order to realize "loving others," one must also follow the way of "loyalty and forgiveness," which is the requirement that "what you don't want done to you, don't do to others.

The idea of "propriety" is to "restrain oneself and return to propriety," that is, to restrain oneself so as to conform to the requirements of "propriety," which Confucius pursued. Confucius pursued the "rite" is the Western Zhou hierarchical name system, Confucius also further put forward the idea of "correct name", is to correct the hierarchical order, to achieve the order of nobility and inferiority, which reflects the conservative side of his political thinking.