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What is the origin, development and relevance of the Chinese culture of loyalty and righteousness?

It is an important element of Confucianism. It originated from Confucius and Mencius. Confucius especially emphasized the benevolence, the preaching of respect for the inferiority and superiority; Mencius and develop; Dong Zhongshu and establish it as the mainstream of China's thinking, the two Cheng and Zhu Xi and make it a huge system of thought, and ultimately in Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, I think that it is the continuation of the Chinese nation, the development of the role of the Chinese people.