Confucianism takes secular ethics of good and evil as its value orientation and emphasizes retribution in this world. The subject of retribution is not the actor himself, but his family and descendants. The ultimate goal of pursuing retribution is to achieve life satisfaction. Psychological balance and achieving real life equality. The Confucian thought of retribution has been recorded in many ancient books, such as:

"Yi Zhuan" records: "A house that accumulates good deeds will have remnants of happiness, and a house that accumulates bad deeds will have remnants of disaster."

"Shangshu·Shangshu·Yixun Chapter" records: "But God is impermanent. He brings hundreds of auspiciousness for good things and hundreds of disasters for bad things."

"Guoyu Zhouyu" records: "The way of heaven rewards good and punishes immorality."

"Han Feizi An Wei" contains: "Misfortune and fortune follow good and evil." "Retribution" and "retribution" are related words. The Confucian view of retribution is based on secular ethics of good and evil as its value orientation, emphasizing retribution in this world. The subject of retribution is not the actor himself, but his family and descendants. The pursuit of The ultimate goal of retribution is to achieve psychological balance in life and equality in real life.

This kind of retributive psychology that relies on achieving the expected retributive effect in the spiritual realm is actually a reflection of the lack of social reality in the ideological realm. Confucianism values ??life and loves life. It is believed that "life is a good thing; death is an evil thing. Good things are joy; evil things are sorrow." Pursue a healthy life and extravagantly hope that life span will last forever. Confucius said, "Those who love want to live, those who hate want to die."