The brightest point of Confucianism is that the morality of "benevolence and love" advocated by Confucius plays an important role in human society, and is an important force in maintaining national stability, maintaining interpersonal harmony, improving human quality and perfecting human society. The core idea of Confucianism, "love of mankind", not only reflects the nature of mankind, but is also the most fundamental element in all human relationships. Looking at the history of mankind, if a great man or a social group utilizes the most powerful means of benevolence and love, then he will be the most successful and promising leadership force. For example, Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms period, who was courteous and courteous to his followers, eventually won one-third of the world. The Eighth Route Army under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), during the War of Liberation, was always guided by the principle of "love and benevolence", which was the first thing to do, and the first thing to do was to be courteous to the guests. He also put forward the arguments of "Do not do unto others as you would not have them do unto you", "Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you", advocated the way of "loyalty and forgiveness", and thought that the implementation of a "benevolent government" would be a good idea. He also thought that the implementation of "benevolent government" should be regulated by "rites": "To restore oneself to the rites is to be benevolent". He was skeptical about the religious superstitions of ghosts and gods since Yin and Zhou, thinking that "if you don't know how to be born, how can you know how to serve the ghosts" and "if you don't know your fate, you can't be a gentleman". Also focus on the combination of "learning" and "thinking", put forward "learning without thinking is confusing, thinking without learning is dangerous" and "learning from the past to understand the new He put forward the ideas of "learning without thinking is confusing, thinking without learning is perilous" and "learning new things by learning new things". He was the first to create the trend of private lectures, advocating teaching according to ability, "teaching without class", "learning without boredom, tireless in teaching", and emphasizing that "a gentleman who learns the way will love people, and a small man who learns the way will be easy to make". Politically, he put forward the idea of "correcting the name", believing that "a ruler, a minister, a father, a son" should all live up to their "name", and put forward the idea of "do not worry about being uneven, do not worry about being poor, but worry about being poor". and put forward the view that "one should not suffer from unevenness, and one should not suffer from poverty, but from anxiety". Since the Western Han Dynasty, the teachings of Confucius have been the cultural orthodoxy of feudal society for more than 2,000 years and have had a great influence. Mencius inherited and developed Confucius's idea of moral governance and developed it into the doctrine of benevolent government, which became the core of his political thought.
There are many other essences in it that we need to pass on and carry forward, so that we human beings can be more harmonious and friendly to every living being around us.
On the other hand, there are some ideas that are still feudal, corrupt and backward that we need to weed out. For example, like some of the rigid dogmas in the Three Principles.
We have to innovate in practice, so that Confucianism can show its shining side in today's society.