AMPLIFICATION OF THE "IMPORTANT DOCTRINE"
Confucius said: "The best way to teach the people to love their sovereign is for the sovereign
first to love his own parents; to teach them to be polite to each other is for the sovereign himself first to be polite to all his elders; and to improve bad manners and customs is for him first to pay attention to the composition of the music played in the country. "What is etiquette? It is simply due respect to one's elders.