Zhong" and "filial piety" are two important concepts advocated by Confucianism. For these two concepts, we take it for granted that "loyalty" means loyalty, that is, unconditional loyalty to the monarch; "filial piety" "It is filial piety, that is, unconditional obedience to parents. But familiarity is not true knowledge. We listen to rumors without knowing the source. The "loyalty" and "filial piety" advocated in the true thoughts of Confucianism are not foolish loyalty, foolish filial piety.
" If the king asks his ministers to die, but the ministers do not die, it is unfaithful; if the father asks his son to die, but the son does not die, it is unfilial. "These two sentences are so widely spread in the market that some people think that this is the idea of ??Confucianism. But this is not the case. Confucianism is exactly opposed to foolish loyalty and foolish filial piety.
In the pre-Qin period, Confucius founded He joined the Confucian school and advocated "virtue rule" in politics. He believed that ministers were not a personal dependence relationship for the monarch, but a reciprocal relationship. He advocated: "The king entrusts his ministers with courtesy. "Loyalty to the king." Confucius traveled around the country throughout his life in order to seek wise kings to realize his political ideals, rather than being foolishly loyal to the king of his country. He believed that the duty of a minister is not to flatter the king, but to be able to speak out and point out the truth. Only in this way can a monarch become a loyal minister despite his mistakes and mistakes.
According to Confucius’ principle of “lord, minister, minister”, the emperor must be the emperor first, and then the minister can be the minister. "Immortal" is obviously contradictory to his point of view. If the king is not a king, the ministers will no longer be ministers, so foolish loyalty is not a view advocated by Confucianism. Mencius inherited Confucius's Confucianism and advocated "benevolent government", believing that "the people are the most precious, and the country is the most valuable." "Secondly, the ruler should be taken lightly", which proposes that the monarch should put the interests of the people first. If the monarch does not care about the people and does whatever he wants, he should be overthrown. In the early days of the development of Confucianism, the idea of ??"loyalty" did not yet have the concept of absolute respect for the monarch.< /p>
"If the king wants his ministers to die, they must die". This is the saying that in the feudal rule where Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty advocated "deposing hundreds of schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", the rulers imposed Confucianism on it for their own absolute authority. An ideological means to consolidate politics.