Dong Zhongshu' s Viewpoint of Benevolence and Uprighteousness

Benevolence and uprighteousness are the core of the Tao of five moral orders of Dong Zhong-shu. Their inner meaning and interaction lead his whole theory of moral. Dong Zhongshu provided the way of life which combined the benevolence and uprighteousness,to console the other with benevolence,to correct oneself with uprighteousness,discriminating the inner and the outer,drawing a line of scope,and developed the knowledge of human relation and the theory of moral-cultivated of the Confucianism. Besides, Dong Zhongshu also found metaphysical value noumenon-the heaven for the ethic principle. His conception of bevenolence uprigheousness had advantage to the stability of country, the portray of ideal personality and the construction of general ethic.