Book: Ethics and ritual in traditional China

Good governance is achieved through punishment.

Striving for profit, striving for power, people lose the basic qualities of a person.

In China, there has long been a belief that some people who have committed bad deeds and crimes cannot escape punishment from spirits and various deities, escape, as we would say, judgment

You cannot look at what contradicts the LI, you cannot listen to what contradicts the LI, you cannot say what contradicts the LI.

If you don't learn the Rules, you won't have anything to stand on.

Why, then, without fail, go deep into the mountains in order to be in the peace of loneliness?

Only greed for profit and happiness makes people seek fame.

The highly valued teachings of Confucius have contributed in no small measure to the preservation of China, its survival over the centuries.

Society must be built on patriarchal traditions that go back centuries, determined by an ethical norm and held together by rituals.

A perfect man should not demand more from people than they can.

Even though others could exist alongside the official religion and sometimes actively function, even if not everyone in China was equally in awe of the Confucian norm - the fundamental basis has not changed from this. Moreover, she was strong enough to resolutely stop any deviations dangerous to her existence.

Their own rules, and very strict ones, exist for those who settled in a foreign country. He must reckon with local customs and practices.

Music is an expression of feelings, a manifestation of a state of mind and feeling. Music creates mood, leads to harmony, teaches kindness and good manners - that is why the ancients paid so much attention to studying it.

For a hundred days of labor, one day of prosperity.