What exactly do the three cardinal guides and the five permanent members mean?

The three cardinal guides and the five permanent members are the moral norms between people advocated by feudal ethics. Three cardinal guides: the monarch is the minister's cardinal guide, the father is the son's cardinal guide, and the husband is the wife's cardinal guide; The five permanent members: benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith.

Three obedience and four virtues are the code of conduct and moral norms used to restrain women in China's ancient feudal society, which are collectively called "three obedience and four virtues". Confucian ethics requires that women's lives should be standardized in morality, behavior and cultivation. "Three obedience" means that a woman does not marry from her father, but from her husband, and her husband dies; "Four virtues" refer to women's virtue, women's words, women's appearance and women's merits.

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After the establishment of patriarchal marriage and family in the Zhou Dynasty and the clear boundaries between men and women, there appeared a moral code of "three obedience" that required women to obey their fathers, husbands and children, that is, the female role in the family was subordinate to men.

The "four virtues" are the etiquette, manners and operational skills that women must have to practice the moral goal of "three obedience". Under the influence of Confucian culture, the interaction of "three obedience" morality, the promotion and cultivation of "four virtues" and the intimidation and punishment of "seven out" rules gradually disciplined the virtues of traditional women.

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