For Confucians, morality is grounded in human nature, which is expressed by Confucius as ren or humaneness, sometime simply as benevolence.
From this origin of morality, some more concrete moral principles spurt out, such as the principles of ren, yi, li and zhi, or principles of benevolence, of justice, of propriety , and of moral consciousness.
These are major guiding principles for our common lives.