Misinterpretation for a century and a new interpretation of "self - discipline fulfils the rites"

Confucius said , To discipline self to fulfil the is benevolence. This famous saying had been misunderstood deeply in the recent history of thought. People often categorize it in politics and think that this saying of Confucius indicates his historical attitude to restore Zhou Li. Actually , to discipline self to fulfil the is just a moral problem and it belongs to the ethical category. fu should not be undestood as restoration or returning, but as practiceor fulfillment. To discipline self to fulfil the rites is to subdue one's self to fulfil the rites. From Confucius' whole ideological system, we can see that he is not a guardian of Zhou Li, but the subversive and rebel. The Confucius advocated had already surmounted the rules of Zhou Li greatly , and it laid a foundation of the norm for a new era .