2012 IPA Chinese as a Foreign Language Canton Counseling "Introduction to Chinese Culture" Notes:Traditional Virtues of the Chinese Nation

Traditional Virtues of the Chinese Nation

1. Summarizing and identifying with traditional virtues is the key to inheriting and carrying forward the fine ethical and moral traditions of the nation, and an extremely important source for the construction of moral civilization in modern China.

2. Traditional virtues are the basic kernel and reasonable kernel in the system of traditional moral norms, referring to those virtues that are accepted and practiced by most people in the moral norms of consciousness or customs, and are consistent throughout the ages, and still play a positive influence in the modern society.

3. There are two kinds of traditional Chinese moral norms: the norms summarized by ethicists or advocated by the ruling class and elevated to the level of theory; and the customary norms that have been widely accepted and practiced in secular life.　

4. Confucius' three virtues are: knowledge, benevolence, and courage, on the basis of which he put forward a series of virtues such as rites, filial piety, fraternal duty, and loyalty, which is the first complete system of moral norms in China.

5. The four cardinal virtues of Mencius are benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom, which were expanded into five ethics and ten teachings, i.e., the king's favor and minister's loyalty, the father's kindness and son's filial piety, the brother's friendship and brother's respect, the husband's righteousness and the woman's obedience, and the friend's faithfulness.

6. Guan Zhong, a representative of Legalism, put forward the four dimensions and seven bodies, which refer to propriety, justice, honesty and shame.

7. Dong Zhongshu's Three Principles and Five Constants refer to: the principle of the ruler as the principle of the minister, the principle of the father as the principle of the son, and the principle of the husband as the principle of the wife; and the principle of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith.

8, the Chinese nation's ten traditional virtues: one is benevolence, filial piety and fraternal duty; the second is modesty and good manners; the third is honesty and knowledge of repayment; the fourth is loyalty and patriotism; the fifth is self-restraint and dedication; the sixth is to cultivate oneself and be prudent; the seventh is to think of righteousness in the light of profitability; the eighth is diligence, thrift, honesty and righteousness; the ninth is truthfulness, generosity; and the tenth is the courage to persevere and act. （

9, benevolence and virtue is the Chinese nation's **** virtue and eternal virtue, in all historical periods and various moral in the most basic moral purposes, in the secular first life is also the most common standard of virtue.

10. Ritual is one of the mother virtues of the Chinese nation. As a moral code, its content is more complex. As an ethical system and ethical order, it refers to etiquette and ritual; as a form of treating others, it refers to etiquette and manners; as an individual cultivation, it refers to politeness; as a relationship with others, it refers to courtesy.

11, good manners, etiquette is an important virtue of the Chinese people in the world.

12. Sincerity means truthfulness without delusion, and its most basic meaning is sincerity in oneself, sincerity in self-lazy nature; the basic requirement of faith is that words and deeds match, and words must be trustworthy and deeds must be fruitful.

13. The basic content of the traditional Chinese concept of righteousness and profitability is that righteousness comes before profitability.

14, the traditional virtues of the Chinese people play a very important role in the development of Chinese society. It forms a noble national spirit, establishes a national moral personality with rich connotations, and creates various moral personalities.