Confucius was a down-and-out aristocrat with a noble spirit. He had always dreamed of realizing his responsibilities as a noble.

‘Aristocrats’ are actually what Confucius calls gentlemen – ‘serve the master above, and are responsible for leading the people below’.

In the ancient times of mankind, the leader of a tribe often also played the role of 'shaman' or 'god's spokesman'. He was the trust of the whole tribe. If a 'Wizard' makes a command error, whether due to objective or subjective factors, he will be sacrificed to sacrifice his life to protect the safety of his own people. (Of course, these were the earliest wizards, and they were relatively 'stupid'. Later, wizards became more sophisticated, and it would be great to make up any excuses to let themselves off the hook.)

The descendants of the great wizards were also Designated as a wizard, a lineage of wizards has been a wizard for generations. The whole clan respects the wizard family, and the children of the wizard family are given the mission of protecting the entire clan since they were young, so that they cannot live like ordinary children.

Wizards and patriarchs were early nobles. They were respected by their tribesmen and had supreme rights. At the same time, they had to protect their own tribesmen. This was the responsibility of the primitive nobles.

This kind of noble responsibility has always been inherited. Nobles must seek happiness for the people they rule. In ancient times, the rights and obligations of nobles were two-way.

Whether it is the spirit of chivalry in the West, the spirit of Confucianism in China, or the spirit of the Japanese variant of the samurai, they all have the same values, which is to be loyal to one's superiors and have a sense of responsibility for one's own people. duty to protect.

This was also the first ancient battlefield. Those who fought had to have noble status. Those without status were not even qualified to fight.

‘Aristocrat’ is an offensive word for those of us who live in a ‘civilized’ era today. At least no one wants others to be ‘nobles’ and use their aristocratic status to ‘suppress’ themselves.

Today's world's views on aristocrats can be roughly divided into two camps. One is the republican countries led by France and the United States, which have no good impressions of aristocrats, and the other is constitutional monarchy. The citizens of these countries are not disgusted with the royal family or the Commonwealth. (Of course, this lack of disgust is based on the premise that the rule of law guarantees the basic fairness of society. The exploitative system of the ancient aristocracy no longer exists. The aristocracy is just a family. Only honor.), and even regard the royal family as a historical glory of the country and the nation.

To explain Confucius clearly and understand Confucius’ thoughts, we must first establish Confucius’ identity and stance, and the position of ‘aristocratic’ is almost always derogatory to today’s national understanding, so I We must first restore the definition of ancient nobility.

In the era of Confucius, noble status not only enjoyed glory, but also shouldered responsibilities. As a declining nobleman, Confucius hoped that he could fulfill the responsibilities of a nobleman.

Confucius was extremely sad to see the troubled times he lived in. He believed that many nobles had completely lost their noble spirit!

Confucius talked about "the destruction of rituals and the collapse of music", which was a denunciation of the society at that time, and the patriarchal system was seriously damaged. In Confucius's time, the inheritance rights of the eldest son in the patriarchal system had begun to become fragile. Whoever in the family was powerful and capable could inherit. Not only that, the small nobles also began to rebel against the big nobles, and the scholars raised by the nobles even rode on the heads of their masters. In short, no one was serious about fulfilling the 'order' customized by the Western Zhou Dynasty. Without 'order', chaos would naturally arise. .

Confucius repeatedly believed that a 'harmonious society' should be a society with orderly relationships between superiors and subordinates and orderly family ethics like that at the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The gentleman defined by Confucius is a nobleman who, like him, has lofty ideals, noble integrity, and works for the happiness of his own people. The villain he refers to is someone who has no legal inheritance rights but can use various means to obtain them. rights man.

This is the original definition of ‘gentleman’ and ‘villain’. (The patriarchal system stipulates that between large and small clans, except for the eldest son who legally inherits the line, the others are classified as minor clans, and the people in the minor clan are called "little people".)

Gentleman, Villain, this initial definition was combined with the moral level advocated by Confucianism, and they were gradually divided into: a gentleman is a person with noble morals, ideals, revenge, integrity, and backbone, while a villain is a person who is only interested in profit and good. People who use intrigues and corrupt moral character have completely changed from their original intentions!

Confucius’ aristocratic plot gave him a strong sense of responsibility and made it his mission to restore a harmonious society!

In Confucius's view, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the princes were fighting each other. The king did not obey the emperor's orders, the officials did not obey the emperor's orders, and the officials' retainers did not obey their lords. In the family, the situation where children go against the will of their parents is that the etiquette and music collapse, destroying the etiquette and music system established by Zhou Gong. If we want to end the conflicts in the world, we must find Zhou Li.