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  1. Jan 2026
    1. Be generous and resepectful to your parent and siblings by taking the hard decision and absorbing whatever upset follows. It might be a substantial sacrifice to let your parent be angry with you, but an exemplary person would respectfully accept the difficulty in order to secure proper care for their parent. Be respectful of your parent’s authority and don’t intervene and try to take the decision away from them. Instead be generous in helping provide for your parent while your parent makes their own decision

      The ethics of Confucianism more relies on the legitimacy (mingfen). Because with mingfen, the action will be legimacy. Therefore, with the mingfen of xiao (filial piety), the intervene from Children will be intervene.

    1. Confucianism (another link)# Being and becoming an exemplary person (e.g., benevolent; sincere; honoring and sacrificing to ancestors; respectful to parents, elders and authorities, taking care of children and the young; generous to family and others). These traits are often performed and achieved through ceremonies and rituals (including sacrificing to ancestors, music, and tea drinking), resulting in a harmonious society. Key figures: Confucius ~500, China Mencius ~350, China Xunzi ~300 BCE, China

      Ethics of Confucianism is the combination of the Five Constant Virtues and the Five Relationships. Five Constant Virtues are benevolence (ren), righteousness (yi), propriety (li), wisdom (zhi), and trustworthiness (xin). The Five Rlationships are ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, elder and younger brothers, and friends. Confunism believes that ethics is not only the the realm of subjective consciousness. It is the continuity between Heaven (tian) and the human world.