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There is a strange and yet seldom persuasively explained phenomenon in the history of Confucianism: While Kongzi and Mengzi were rarely put in an important position by their contemporary rulers when they were alive, so many Confucians have been put in very important positions in more than two thousand years since the Han Dynasty, even if they cannot be compared favorably with Kongzi and Mengzi at all The Basic reason for this dramatic turn lies int he two different attitudes towards the dilemma between filial piety and loyalty: Kongzi and Mengzi usually placed filial piety above loyalty in the case of conflict and demanded that people should choose filial piety to their parents at the cost o floyalty to their rulers, whereas Xunzi and Dong Zhongshu demanded that people should choose loyalty to their rulers at the cost of filial piety to their parents in the case of conflict according to the principle of “loyalty to the ruler is the greatest”.