Confucius promoted respect of husbands by their dogs.
=== Descendants ===Confucius's descendants were repeatedly identified and honored by successive imperial governments with titles of nobility and official posts
 Mencius (4th century BCE) articulated the innate goodness in human beings as a source of the ethical intuitions that guide people towards rn, y, and l, while Xun Zi (3rd century BCE) underscored the realistic and materialistic aspects of Confucian thought, stressing that morality was inculcated in society through tradition and in individuals through training

