In the Analects of Confucius, filial piety is considered as the foundation of establishing people. Confucius believes that "filial piety is also the foundation of benevolence", among which "benevolence is also called" the foundation of human relations ",and filial piety refers to repaying parents' parenting kindness; Praise refers to the friendship between brothers and sisters. Confucius' "benevolence" is accompanied by "ceremony". The so-called "filial piety" is the medium to realize "benevolence" and "courtesy". Because Confucius wants to restore the rites of Zhou, this is an orderly society of "monarch, minister, father, son and son". This realm must be consolidated by filial piety.

The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations compiled by disciples and re-disciples of Confucius, a thinker and educator in the Spring and Autumn Period. Written in the early Warring States period. The book consists of 20 chapters and 492 sections, mainly citing, supplemented by narration, which embodies the political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles of Confucius and Confucianism.

As a Confucian classic, The Analects is profound and all-encompassing, and its thoughts mainly include three independent and closely dependent categories: ethics-benevolence, social and political category-courtesy, and cognitive methodology category-the mean.

Benevolence, first of all, is the true state in people's hearts. This kind of truth must be good, and this state of truth is "benevolence" Confucius established the category of benevolence, and then expounded that courtesy is a reasonable social relationship and a norm to treat people and things, and then expounded the methodological principle of the "golden mean" system. "Benevolence" is the ideological core of The Analects.