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Explain the Confucian principle of li.
A
The Confucian principle of li is to exhibit appropriate behavior.
B
x
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Li – Confucianism emphasizes the importance of virtuous rule through benevolence and proper conduct. This proper conduct is called li, or ritual, and emphasizes purity, sincerity, and harmony. If people were all virtuous and conducted themselves properly, Heaven bestowed good fortune upon everyone.

Detailed explanation-2: -The golden rule of Confucianism is “Do not do unto others what you would not want others to do unto you.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Robert Oxnam :: Confucian teaching rests on three essential values: Filial piety, humaneness, and ritual. Irene Bloom :: The Confucian value system may be likened in some ways to a tripod, which is one of the great vessels of the Shang and Zhou Period and a motif that reoccurs in later Chinese art.

Detailed explanation-4: -Within Confucianism there are five constant virtues or wu chang (). In descending order of importance, the virtues are benevolence or ren (), righteousness or yi (), propriety or li (), wisdom or zhi () and fidelity or xin ().

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