Moral fulfillment of one’s mind and heart means beauty in character. This term comes from the book Mencius. Mencius’ (372?-289 BC) understanding of beauty relates closely to Confucian morality. To his mind, beauty is one of the qualities on the rating scale for personality, which ranges from those of virtue, honorableness, beauty, magnanimity, saintliness, all the way up to the divine. Central to all these is moral fulfillment, which refers to the perfection, harmony and completeness of a person’s moral well-being. When a person is enriched by virtue and honorableness, he is filled with tremendous moral strength and thus attains a beauty of personality. In other words, beauty is a spiritual state of worthiness achievable when moral self-sufficiency becomes elevated into an aesthetic ecstasy, reflecting the Confucian ideal of perfect harmony between morality and aesthetics, or that between beauty and goodness. In literary criticism, this is shown via the argument that a writer should strive to be upright before he can create noble-spirited works. This term sets moral fulfillment as an important criterion for judging the quality of a literary work, and advocates a unity between artistic excellence and moral well-being.

A person that is lovable can be called virtuous. He who is virtuous can be described as honorable. If his soul possesses moral goodness, it also possesses beauty. If that beauty can be made to spread afar, it becomes magnanimous. If that magnanimity can spread its influence across the whole world, he attains sainthood. If such sainthood can reach immeasurable heights, then he possesses the quality of the divine. Mencius

Natural inclination and character give an author an immense aspiration. This, in turn, determines the language of his writing. Literary grace and glory result solely from the author’s true feelings. Liu Xie: The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons