HISTORY
ANCIENT CHINA
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Question
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Respect for elders
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Civil Service Exam
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Humility in all living things
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Ancestral Worship
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Detailed explanation-1: -There are five principles around which Confucianism revolves-Jen, Li, Xin, Chung, Yi. The concept of Jen is based on human nature and benevolence. Li is a principle of respect and propriety.
Detailed explanation-2: -The four tenets of Confucianism are Rites and Rituals, the Five Relations, Rectification of Names, and Ren. All rites and rituals are intentional acts of social unification.
Detailed explanation-3: -The main function of humility is removing unavoidable obstacles from the self-cultivating process. Confucius and his followers recognized that the obstacles impeding the progress of one’s self-cultivation are mostly not from without but within. The self is both the seeker and the impeder for this very process.
Detailed explanation-4: -That the four beginnings (siduan)-the feeling of commiseration, the feeling of shame, the feeling of courtesy, and the feeling of right and wrong-are all inborn in man was a self-evident truth to Mencius; and the “four beginnings, ‘’ when properly cultivated, will develop into the four cardinal virtues of ren, …