The Contemporary Value of Pre-Qin Confucian Moral Education Thought

The contemporary value of pre-Qin Confucian moral education thought is as follows:

Confucian moral education thought in the pre-Qin period is an important source of traditional Chinese culture, and the concepts it advocates, such as "benevolence and love," "public loyalty," and "filial piety and kindness" have been y integrated into the spirit of the Chinese nation, and have occupied an important historical position in China's history of thought and are still the main content of China's moral education work today. The concepts have been y integrated into the spirit of the Chinese nation and occupy an important historical position in the history of Chinese thought.

Origin of Confucianism

Why is Confucianism called "Confucianism" and what is the meaning of the word "Confucianism" have not been understood by many people. Confucianism's intellectual resources "originated from Yao, Shun and the Western Zhou's Shangshu and the Book of Songs, which had already become the cultural classics that people, including Confucius, relied on during his time."

The Rites of Zhou said: Confucianism has gained the way to the people. The so-called get the way, a said rites and music, two said benevolence and righteousness. The first to get the rites and music, is Confucianism first saint Zhou Gong Ji Dan also. Duke of Zhou regency, five years to build Luoyi, six years to make the rituals and music, according to the Zhou system, the Yin rituals, the development of the field system, control, pay system, music system, the legal system, overflow system, gui system, the system of service, the firstborn son inheritance system, and so on.

The system of rules and regulations was quite complete, and it was called the Rites of Zhou or the Rites of the Duke of Zhou. The Duke of Zhou wrote the Great Grant, the Kang Grant, the Wine Grant, the Zhou Officials, and the Book of Government, advocating the idea that the Mandate of Heaven is not unauthorized, and that the Mandate of Heaven is not always the same, and advocating the idea of respecting virtue and protecting the people, being wise and prudent in punishing people, being filial to one's parents, and supporting Heaven with virtue.

Confucius was a great admirer of the Zhou rites, and he vowed to take the oath from Zhou. Confucius in the Zhou Gong worship worship, for a long time, once said, I no longer dream of the Zhou Gong and long sigh. In order to read the canon of the Duke of Zhou, visit the traces of the saint, Confucius in the Zhou King Jing Wang years, with his disciple Nangong Jing Shu into the week to ask the rituals in Laozi, ask the music in carambola. The Duke of Zhou and the three generations of rites and music were the forerunners of Confucianism in later times. Luoyi Chengzhou was the ancestral home of Confucianism in China.

Zhang Taiyan, in his book A Discourse on the State of the World, argued that there were three Confucian disciplines, namely, Guan Da, Class, and Private, and that Da was called Confucian. The Confucian, also known as the Warlock. The name of the Confucian cover out of need. The name of Confucian is derived from the word "need", which means that the clouds go up to the sky, and the Confucians also know astronomy and recognize droughts and floods. Confucianism refers to a profession that makes a living by religion and is responsible for various religious ceremonies such as mourning and sacrifices to the gods. He said, "Confucianism was originally the teacher who sought rain, so it was derived as the name of the magician."

Hu Shih's Saying Confucianism, based on Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi - The Human Part of the Eastern Han Dynasty, explains the term "Confucianism" as follows: "Confucianism is also a soft term for a practitioner of the art of war. From human, need sound". And it is this interpretation of the Confucian as soft, leading to many different claims, and even the position of a very different debate.

Hu Shi believes that the Confucian people for the remnants of the Yin, and these people in the aftermath of the fall of the state, reduced to mourning rituals, Confucian for the Zhou society to have such a culture of artisans of the contemptuous name. Because they had already been killed, their culture could only exist in a weak way.