Xunzi is the first Chinese thinker who trail-blazes the Confucian rule as a political ethics and establishes the rationality of political ethics from two streams of generating morality: internal innate moral knowledge and external norms of ritual. Xunzi argues that human groups develop society within the hierarchical division of labor and the rituals are the embodied norms regularizing and restraining hierarchical human relationships. Xunzi views that a nation can benefit from Confucian ruling which rules a nation according to Confucian values but at the same time sees the limitations of Confucianism where even the Confucian ruling cannot restrain or control the occurrence of evil action. Xunzi believes that when ethical morality is effectively fused and integrated into an external ritual , then it will change into a binding norm. When this norm advances itself into the realm of politics and so is transformed to be codified and regularized in the capacity of a governing regulation, such norm will materialize as laws and establish itself as a binding principle. Xunzi is taken to maintain a sense of balance between law and ritual when advancing and formalizing social ruling theories, thus recognizing the legally binding and the enforcing power of law. As a result, the Confucian thought has become the mainstream of Chinese political ethics. Xunzi views the principle of law as an effective means to make sure that the Confucian political ideals will be realized. By virtue of using law , historically speaking, Confucian thought has carried more political weight and has engaged politically in myriad forms.