A Study On The Spirit Of Mencius Blood And Its Contemporary Value

Blood relation problem has an extremely important position in the history of China culture, it reflects the essence of Chinese traditional Confucian culture, and has the profound influence on Chinese culture. Mencius inherited the thought of blood domination from Confucius, and expansion and development, formed a complete set of the theoretical system of consanguineous affection spirit. Mencius consanguinity theory was based on the theory of original goodness of human nature, thinking people are born with four good sections, so human nature at birth is good. But these innate goodness just is moral bud, you need to expand and cultivate it in our postnatal life. According to the distance of blood relationship, Mencius formulated the corresponding moral code:father-loving and son-obeying, emperor-benevolent and the subject-loyal, elder brother-friendly and younger brother-submissive. On this basis, he took home connected to country and the word in the form of "concentric circles", so that achieved the social pattern of "intergradations of family and nation". In the Mencius consanguinity theory, the country is the expansion of clan, clan is the extension of family, and familial affection is the main line through them. Patriarchal who stay in the center has supreme status and great power, and family also in first position. family is that one country’s built on. As the change of The Times, the concept of home has changed, the group spirit of Mencius consanguinity theory constantly inhibit one’s personality, hierarchy that it emphasis on also conflict with the concept of equality in today’s society. however, Mencius’s theory of consanguinity still has some seasonable components:a heart which can’t tolerated, to be filial to parents, love offspring, do a social person and so on. these have important guiding significance to build a harmonious family and society.