Shandong people are simple, honest and polite. What cultural heritage is this related to?

This is the headline question today, and my answer is as follows:

I especially like Shandong people.

It has long been known that Qilu, Shandong Province is the hometown of Confucius and Mencius and the state of etiquette. However, my first visit to Shandong still gave me a great surprise.

It was the second half of 1992, and I just joined the work and accompanied two old engineers to Shandong to solve the technical problems of the products. When I first arrived in Jinan, I ate in a small restaurant, so I ordered two. I was just about to order another one when the waiter said, we have a large quantity of dishes here, so it must be enough for you three to eat two dishes. Don't order any more, it's too wasteful.

This surprised us very much. Three people who have lived in Beijing for many years are used to ordering four or five dishes in restaurants, because in Beijing, even if three people order four or five dishes, they are only enough to eat.

We saw the sincerity of the waiter and followed his advice. It turns out that he is right. The weight of two dishes is sufficient, plus three bowls of rice, the three of us eat very comfortably, with almost no leftovers and no extra money, which not only meets the essential needs of eating, but also conforms to the good habits and traditions of thrift.

These excellent qualities of Shandong people should come from Zhou Gongdan at the earliest. He ascended the throne as the queen, gradually faded out of the power center, and finally came to his own fief to educate the whole people and work hard, leaving a glorious model image for generations to come.

Later, Confucius inherited these excellent qualities of Duke Zhou and carried them forward. He not only practiced by himself, but also drove his disciples to practice hard. As the originator of Confucianism, it has been passed down from generation to generation, allowing Shandong people to retain more valuable qualities of being a man and doing things advocated by Confucianism.

It should be said that the Confucian classics can be preserved as the mainstream ideology of the Chinese nation because it represents the development mode that human beings, as social animals living in groups, can constantly adapt to the environment and grow and strengthen themselves.

Confucianism has a relatively core point of view. If you don't change your father's way for three years, you can be said to be filial. Qilu land is more directly and strongly influenced by Confucianism, so it is preserved, which leads to Shandong people being more in place among modern people.

A little more, we can also illustrate the importance of this filial piety from the geographical environment of our country. There is a sea in the east, a plateau Gobi in the west, a desert wasteland in the north, and a sea in the south, forming a development idea of not expanding the Central Plains. Such an idea needs a stable order, and the filial piety requirement of father and son is the premise of stability. Some virtues extended from filial piety are actually honesty, simplicity, loyalty and courtesy.

Your question brought back good memories for me. Thank you for your question. I hope my answer is useful to you.