I have to die.

The author is Dong Zhongshu of Han Dynasty.

The complete sentence is "you want me to die, and I don't die because I'm disloyal;" A father tells his son to die, and it is unfilial for him not to die. "It belongs to one of the so-called' three cardinal guides and five permanents' in feudal society. Three cardinal guides refer to monarch, minister, father, son and husband.

In ancient times, Confucius said that "a monarch and a minister should be courteous, and a minister should be loyal", which was later evolved by Confucius (a disciple or descendant of Confucius) into "a monarch wants his minister to die, but he has to die". The earliest record (source) of this sentence is the specific content of Dong Zhongshu's "Three Cardinals and Five Permanences".

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The words "three cardinal guides" and "five permanent members" come from Dong Zhongshu's Spring and Autumn Stories in the Western Han Dynasty. But as a moral principle and standard, it originated from Confucius in the pre-Qin period. Confucius once put forward ethical concepts such as monarch, monarch, minister, father and son, benevolence, courtesy and wisdom.

Mencius further put forward the "five ethics" of "father and son are blind, the monarch and the minister are righteous, the husband and wife are different, the ages are orderly, and friends are trustworthy". According to his theory that "Yang is worse than Yin", Dong Zhongshu further developed the concept of five ethics and put forward the way of three cardinal guides and five permanents.

Dong Zhongshu believes that in interpersonal relationships, there is a natural and eternal master-slave relationship between monarch, minister, father and son, and husband and wife: the monarch is the master and the minister is the follower; The father is the master and the son is the slave; The husband is the master and the wife is the slave. The so-called "the monarch is the minister, the father is the son, and the husband is the wife".

Dong Zhongshu also believes that benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith are the basic principles for dealing with the relationship between monarch and minister, father and son, husband and wife, and superior and subordinate relations, and the rulers should pay enough attention to them.

The theory of three cardinal guides and five permanent members began with Dong Zhongshu and finished with Zhu. However, Dong Zhongshu didn't put the "Three Cardinals" and the "Five Permanent Principles" together. It was Ma Rong, a Confucian scholar who put them together at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. This juxtaposition means that feudal thinkers finally combined feudal discipline with moral principles to form a complete political, ethical and moral system.

In the Song Dynasty, Zhu developed the theory of Heaven, which linked the "Three Cardinals and Five Permanences" with "Heaven". He believes that the three cardinal guides and the five permanents are the development of natural laws, the natural product of natural laws embodied in social norms, and the eternal panacea for coordinating social relations. " At this point, Zhu's theory of "one principle and one loosening" has become the norm of social life order.

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