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What is Confucianism worth for modern times?

Confucian thought and culture can be preserved through thousands of years of history and must have its own significance and value. Confucius is the founder of Confucian thinking and culture, Confucius also spread his Confucian thinking and culture to every corner of the Central Plains, he physically to realize his own beliefs and ideas, Confucius traveled around the world to provide an opportunity for Confucian thinking and culture to become the mainstream thinking of the feudal dynasty. Under the efforts and propaganda of Confucius, people slowly began to accept Confucianism and culture, and there are indeed a lot of Confucianism and culture in the essence of our society to learn and learn.

Confucianism and culture advocate benevolent rule to govern the country and the world, the use of moral rule and the rule of law to restrain people behavior. The Qin Dynasty relied too much on the rule of law to govern the country, and many of the people were overwhelmed by the burden and eventually raised the banner of the uprising, which led to the demise of the Qin Dynasty in only about 30 years. Later dynasties summarized the reasons why the Qin Dynasty was so short-lived, and later dynasties basically adopted a combination of the rule of law and the rule of morality to manage the country. The rule of law provides institutional safeguards for the rule of virtue, and the rule of virtue provides the conditions and foundation for the rule of law, and the two complement each other.

Confucianism promotes five moral concepts of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust. It provides the basis for people's daily behavior. Benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust are important parts of the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation and the social virtues that we modern people should abide by. Nowadays, the social public morality, professional ethics, family virtues and personal virtues advocated by the society can be seen in the shadow of these five moral concepts of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith.

Confucian thought and culture advocate the use of education to improve people's ideological culture and comprehensive quality. Confucius also puts forward the concept of teaching according to the person, each person has different life experiences, they also have different characteristics, to analyze specific problems, according to the qualities of each person to develop educational methods, can not use a one-size-fits-all approach, with a kind of education philosophy to treat all students.