Attaching importance to and advocating () is the mainstream view of ancient Chinese thinkers.

Attaching importance to and advocating spiritual life is the mainstream view of ancient thinkers in China.

The Chinese tradition of advocating spirit is first manifested in the unique understanding of the relationship between material life and spiritual life. China's traditional culture holds that ill-gotten wealth, letting wealth and fame drift by like clouds, advocates the spiritual pursuit of having food and drinking. In a mean alley, people are worried if they can't bear it, and they are happy if they don't change. The ancient people in China advocated the concept of justice and benefit, that is, taking justice as the first priority, guiding lust and emphasizing abstinence in the concept of reason and desire, and guiding and controlling desire with moral reason and spiritual character.

The Chinese nation's spiritual tradition is also manifested in the unremitting pursuit of ideals by the ancient people of China. Unswervingly adhering to ideals is a typical embodiment of the spirit of the ancient people in China. Confucianism emphasizes that people with lofty ideals are benevolent, and there is no harm to benevolence, and there is death. Mohism takes love and mutual benefit as its ideal. Countless people with lofty ideals have devoted their lives to the people, made great achievements, and pursued their ideals.

Excellent traditional performance of the Chinese nation advocating spirit

1, which shows the emphasis on moral cultivation and moral education.

For example, we should put Lide at the top of the three immortals (Lide, meritorious service and making a statement) and attach importance to the cultivation of people's spiritual character. For another example, from Tian Zi to Shu Ren, all of them are based on self-cultivation, thinking that the purpose of education is to cultivate moral people. At the same time, the ancient people's specific methods of self-cultivation, family training, family rules and other educational methods also showed great concern for the spiritual world.

2. The expression of ideal personality.

For example, the knower of Confucius is not as good as the good; Good people are not as good as happy people; Mencius' wish is good, and so is his own belief. Abundance means beauty, enrichment means greatness, greatness means sacredness, and sacredness means God. These thoughts all reflect the views on the realm of life and the respect and pursuit of the lofty realm of life.

For another example, regarding the ideal personality, the gentleman and sage respected by Confucianism, the real person and perfect person pursued by Taoism, and the new people appealed by Liang Qichao are all concrete manifestations of paying attention to spiritual character.