RELATED TOPIC:
THE CONFUCIAN TRADITION

Robert Oxnam :: Confucian teaching rests on three essential values: Filial piety, humaneness, and ritual.

Irene Bloom :: The Confucian value system may be likened in some ways to a tripod, which is one of the great vessels of the Shang and Zhou Period and a motif that reoccurs in later Chinese art. You could say of the three legs of the tripod, one is filial devotion, or filial piety. A second is humaneness. A third is ritual or ritual consciousness.