e is to obey her husband even if he is abusive and unfaithful, in the Six Relationships, the superior member actually has to take care of the other member."The Mandate of Heaven is a Chinese emperor's right to rule." When the ruler failed to meet his requirements, he would lose his Mandate Of Heaven , or right to rule. It would become the right and duty, of his people to overthrow him. There are four parts to the Mandate of Heaven:1)The Moral Order Of the Universe- to know right from wrong2)Fate- life and death are beyond our control3)The Right To Rule - "knowing the moral order of the universe and actually observing it make one a worthy ruler"4)The Judgement of History- This combines the right to rule' and "fate", because the Chinese believed that if a ruler were to loose his right to rule , it would shortly be followed by the lose of power.The Five Classics are a group of books that Confucius edited and may have helped to write, which summarize the Chinese culture in Confucius' time. The five books that students still, to this day, study are: The Shijing, or Book of Poetry, are a collection of three hundred poems. Some of the poems were ones that express the rituals and rites of the rulers; others are love songs and descriptions of everyday life: all the poems were meant to be sung or chanted. The Shujing, or book of history contains documents concerning the history of China The Chun Qiu, or Spring and Automn Annals, contains the history of Lu and covers the time period from 7222 B.C.E., two years before Confucius' own death. The I Ching, or Book of Changes is a fortune telling manual containing old folk tales and wisdom that is still very interesting to modern readers. The Liji, or the Book of Rites concercs "Zhou dynasty's bureaucratic system" and how to perform many ceremonies performed by the emperor, but also those about ancestor worship, appeals to Heaven and government and household regulations and instructions.Throughout th...
