What are the traditional virtues of China?

China's traditional virtues are kindness and filial piety, modesty and courtesy, honesty, loyalty to the country and self-denial.

The traditional virtues of the Chinese nation refer to the outstanding moral heritage handed down from China's 5,000-year history, which is influential, can be inherited and continuously innovated and developed, and is beneficial to the next generation.

To sum up, it is the sum of the excellent quality, excellent national spirit, lofty national integrity, noble national feelings and good national habits of the Chinese nation. It marks the "shape" and "soul" of the Chinese nation. It is also the crystallization of China people's practice in dealing with interpersonal relationships, the relationship between people and society, and the relationship between people and nature for more than 2,000 years.

The value of traditional virtues

The traditional virtue of the Chinese nation advocates the steps and modes to realize the ideal of life, that is, "respect for things, knowledge, honesty, integrity, self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world". This basic moral concept of treating people with things is the basic requirement for human beings to carry out material production activities and their own survival and development, and it is also the minimum code of conduct for people to live together.

Traditional morality generally plays a role when the society is stable, but it lacks its position when the society changes dramatically. As the saying goes, "it is the merit of' ruling Japan and doing things'." The ancients said: "Take history as a mirror, and you can know the rise and fall. History has proved that Confucian ethics often plays its social role in stabilizing society, easing contradictions and regulating interpersonal relationships in times of peace and prosperity.