China's traditional morality is a contradiction with distinct duality.

China's traditional morality is a contradiction, with distinct duality of essence and dross. Chinese traditional virtue, as the essence of China's traditional morality, should persist in making the past serve the present and bring forth the new, and strive to realize the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese traditional virtue.

At the same time, we should be wary of two wrong views: one is illusory (total westernization) and the other is retro theory (copying traditional culture without refining). These two kinds of mistakes separate the relationship between universality and particularity in traditional culture.

The significance of expanding the value of data is to regard "essence" and "dross" as the significance and function of existing cultural phenomena under realistic conditions, that is, to see whether the things left over from the past are good or bad based on our current survival and development.

The implicit premise here is that we don't think that the meaning of good or bad phenomena is always so fixed, but admit that good or bad is essentially different from person to person and from time to time. Therefore, our job is to look at the past objectively, focusing on selecting and transforming people and society from their realistic development.

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