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What are the eight virtues of China's traditional morality?

Eight virtues: the meanings mainly include: loyalty is loyalty to the cause, loyalty to the duty, loyalty to the nation and loyalty to the country; Filial piety is filial piety to parents and the elderly; Benevolence is generous, caring, generous, good at treating others, not petty, not jealous of talents; Love means loving your brother and obeying him. In business, respect the leadership, obey the organization, and strictly observe discipline; Faith is honesty. As an ethical norm and moral standard, it means keeping promises, matching words with deeds, being true and credible. Justice is justice. It is a moral soul, but also a moral spiritual realm and value orientation; Harmony is a kind of artistic conception, which is simply the balance of yin and yang, the harmony between people and between people and nature; Equality means fairness, balance and equality. Whoever breaks the law will be punished, and whoever makes a contribution will be rewarded.

"Eight Virtues" covers the moral relations among individuals, families and society from the social, economic and political fields. If a person can have these eight qualities in different degrees, he is a moral person, not only will he not lag behind the times, but will also become a strong man in the new century.