The chinese scholar confucius (550-478 B.C.) set up an ethical-moral intended ideally to govern all relationships in the family, community, and state. Confucius taught that society was made up of five relationships: those between ruler and subjects (the relation of righteousness), husband and wife (chaste conduct), father and son(love), elder brother and younger brother(order), and between friends(faithfulness). Three of five bases of relation occur within the family. The regulating factors in family relationships are extended to the whole community and state.