What is the ethics of the Ming Dynasty?

"Human relations in Ming Dynasty" is the "Five Relationships". It refers to the five major interpersonal relationships and code of conduct in ancient China. That is, the ancients said that there are five kinds of human relations: monarch and minister, father and son, brother, couple and friend. Take loyalty, filial piety, filial piety, forbearance and kindness as the "five ethics" relationship criteria.

"Five ethics" are the five basic ethical relations in China traditional society, namely, father and son, monarch and minister, husband and wife, brother and friend, and they are "ethics" in a narrow sense. The ancients regarded monarch and minister, father and son, couple, brother and friend as "five ethics". Ethics and morality are the moral relations between people. Mencius believed that father and son are related by blood, monarch and minister are polite and righteous, and husband and wife are affectionate, but there are differences inside and outside, and friends have the virtue of honesty, which is the principle and code of conduct for dealing with interpersonal relations.

Mencius on Teng Wengong: "Make Qi Situ, teach people: father and son are close, monarch and minister are righteous, husband and wife are different, old and young are orderly, and friends have faith." Both sides in interpersonal relationship should abide by certain "rules". The minister should be loyal to his duties and treat the king with corresponding courtesy; Be kind to your father and filial to your son; For the husband, outside the Lord, for the woman, in the Lord; As a brother, you should take care of your brother, as a brother, you should respect your brother; Friends should be loyal.

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Mencius (about 372 BC-289 BC) was born in Zou (now Zoucheng City, Shandong Province) during the Warring States Period. A great thinker, educator and representative of Confucian school, he is also called "Confucius and Mencius" with Confucius.

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Ren Minglun-Baidu Encyclopedia Mencius-Baidu Encyclopedia Five Luns-Baidu Encyclopedia