What are the principles of Confucian ethics?

Confucian thoughts on moral governance mainly include:

First, the ruling group is required to set an example, pay attention to self-cultivation and diligence, and give full play to the role of moral influence.

Second, attach importance to the moral education of the people, "govern with virtue", and virtue should be the mainstay and punishment should be supplemented.

The Zhou people proposed "clear virtues and be careful about punishments" and "govern with virtues." Later, after the legal Confucianization movement in the Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, etiquette and law merged, and the "Tang Code" finally determined that "virtue and etiquette are the The strategy of governing by virtue of "the foundation of politics and religion, and punishment for the purpose of politics and religion" has been respected by subsequent dynasties.

Government by virtue is an ancient Chinese governance theory, a moral norm advocated by Confucianism, and has long been regarded as orthodox thought by feudal rulers. Confucian moral governance played a certain role in maintaining the stability of feudal society.