This article states that the stress of the importance of the people in Confucianism has three levels of meaning:firstly,stressing human instead of Gods,secondly, stressing the ruled instead of the ruler,and finally,stressing the community instead of the individual.
本文认为儒家民本观包含了三个层次的含义：贵人贱神、贵民轻君、贵群体轻个体。