What are Confucian ethics?

Mainly in three aspects: moral standards, loyalty to the monarch and respect for the family center. The most representative is what we often call "the three cardinal guides and the five permanent members". The "Three Cardinal Principles" means that "the monarch is the minister's guide, the father is the son's guide, and the husband is the wife's guide", which requires that the minister, son and wife must absolutely obey the monarch, father and husband, and also requires the monarch, father and husband to set an example for the minister, son and wife. It reflects a special moral relationship between monarch and minister, father and son and husband and wife in feudal society. The "five permanents", namely, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faithfulness, are the code of conduct used to adjust and standardize the interpersonal relationship between monarch and minister, father and son, brother, husband and wife and friends.

Personally, I think the essence of Confucianism is in the era of Confucius, followed by Mencius. After Dong Zhongshu, Confucianism began to be religious. By the time of Cheng and Zhu, it had seriously violated the core of Confucius' Confucianism, namely, the theory of human nature.

The doctrine of the mean was originally based on "sincerity", but Cheng and Zhu were seriously dishonest (at least in my opinion), and their core was abstinence, forbearance and painting the land as a prison, which did not conform to the "natural" principle of the doctrine of the mean.

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