Confuciunism is a philosophy vased on the teachings of Confucius, a Chinese philosopher/teacher. Confucius highly stressed ethics. It is thought the reason for this is because the China of his time was corrupt. Confucius thought the way to live with good ethics was to follow the five virtues:
Jen; to do good on others,
yi; rightsiosness by justice,
li; religious and moral ways of acting,
chih; wisdom and
hsin; faithfulness.
All of these being represented by the parts of a tree for example: Jen being the root, yi the trunk, li the branches, chih the flower, and hsin the fruit. The most i…
