What are the Five Luns and Eight Virtues

The five Confucianisms refer to father and son, brother, husband and wife, ruler and minister, and friend, including father and son have kinship, the order of elders and children, husband and wife have differentiation, the ruler and minister have righteousness, and the friend has faith; the eight virtues refer to filial piety, fraternal duty, loyalty, faith, etiquette, righteousness, honesty, and shame.

Specific explanations:

1. Father and son have kinship, i.e., there is flesh and blood between father and son.

2. There is righteousness between the ruler and the minister, i.e., there is the way of propriety and righteousness between the ruler and the minister.

3. The husband and wife are different from each other, i.e., they love each other, but they are different from each other internally and externally.

4. There is an order between the young and the old, i.e., there is an order of honor and inferiority between the young and the old.

5. Friends have faith, i.e., there is honesty and integrity among friends.

6. Filial piety means filial piety. Filial piety is the duty to serve one's children, and filial piety is to repay one's parents for the favor they have done in raising their children.

7. Brotherly love is brotherly respect. It is the duty of a younger brother to honor his elder brother, and to do so is to repay his elder brother's kindness.

8. Zhong (忠) means to be loyal. Loyalty to the state is the responsibility of citizens, loyalty is to repay the state's favor.

9, letter, is credit. Credit friends, to friends, words and faith, behavior must be honored, do not lose credit.

10, etiquette, is etiquette. Meet to observe etiquette, politeness.

11, righteousness, is moral righteousness. For the sake of justice, one must have the spirit of courage and bravery. No matter who is in trouble, one should do one's best to help, not to steal, not to take advantage of others, not to be biased, and to bend over backwards.

12, clean, is incorruptible. Cleanliness and self-discipline, cleanliness as a pleasure, cleanliness, honesty and integrity.

13, shame. Is shame. Do not do anything unreasonable or against your conscience. If a man has no shame, he is like an animal.

Expanded:

The Song of the Five Lunas and Eight Virtues:

All of you should remember the Five Lunas and Eight Virtues;

First, the king and his ministers have love and righteousness, and the king's righteousness and minister's loyalty is the basis of the country's governance;

Second, the parents are kind to their children, and their children are the first ones to repay their parents' kindness in life;

Third, the husband and the wife are not to be deceived, and the husband's love is not to be deceived;

Third, the husband's love is not to be deceived.

Fourth, the brothers are like brothers and sisters, and the family's property should not be disputed;

Fifth, the friends speak of faith and friendship, and the morality of the rich and the poor should not be deceived.

The above is the general idea of the Five Lunas, and everyone follows the Five Lunas to the joy of heaven;

Then the content of the Eight Virtues said carefully, is filial piety, ladder, loyalty, etiquette, honesty and shame.

The first filial piety is the first of all, the parents' kindness is as high as Mount Taishan;

No filial piety is like a tree with no root and no source of water, which will surely be rewarded later by the wrath of God.

The second way of brotherly love is the love of compatriots, brothers and sisters are born of one mother;

Brothers and sisters will not lose the love of hand and foot, a harmonious family business without quarrels.

Thirdly, the loyal way of doing things is not to lose heart, sincere and serious;

Dedicated to cooperation and impartiality, open and honest work is not afraid of people.

Fourth, the word "faith" is composed of people's words, is the success or failure of the word for the standard;

Gentleman cultivation in order to say to determine, convinced that the karma of the retribution of the cycle.

The fifth gift of the Taoist people with the treasure, the world of the gift of everyone indispensable;

Groomed behavior is polite, compassion and fraternity so high character.

Sixth, the righteous way of doing things and the right way, not greedy and don't want;

Justice and take the good spirits to protect, light before and after the ancient beauty of the standard.

Seventhly, the cleanliness is not contaminated, the end is upright and unselfish, no evil thoughts;

Cleverness and honesty and loyalty to the road, although the family is poor, we do not covet foreign wealth.

The eighth shame is the nature of the human being, abide by the shame of the evil thoughts will be removed from the net;

Not knowing the shame of the body and mind is not correct, strange things will happen.

The content of the five Confucian virtues is finished, and all of our friends should realize the reference at all times.

Demanding a harmonious human relationship as a starting point, everyone insists on realizing the commonwealth of heaven!

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