From the Confucian Analects 《
论语·
学而》: '
其为人也孝弟，
而好犯上者，
鲜矣' ('It is rare for a person who is filial and brotherly to be fond of offending superiors'). The compound
犯上作乱 (fànshàng zuòluàn — 'to defy authority and stir up rebellion') is the classical extension.
