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What is virtuous?

Paying attention to morality means paying attention to morality, which can support everything like the earth, or describe morality as containing all rivers like the earth. It used to mean that people with high morality can undertake important tasks.

Load means to bear or bear, which means to be able to bear.

Things are things, things, things you enjoy, have and honor.

Virtue means merit and gain.

Carrying things with kindness, pinyin hòu dé zài wù, is an idiom in China, which says, "The land is vast and the population is sparse, and a gentleman carries things with kindness." It means that a gentleman's character should be as thick as the earth and can bear everything. As the spirit and fine tradition of the Chinese nation, it is very important to be virtuous and carry things.

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Enlightenment of respecting morality and carrying things;

A gentleman should imitate the meaning of "Kun" and be kind to others, whether smart, stupid or mean, he should be tolerant and tolerant. "Carrying things with virtue" means educating people and benefiting things with profound virtue. Now it is mostly used to train students with high moral character and profound knowledge.

During the Republic of China, when Liang Qichao was teaching in Tsinghua University, he hoped that all students in Tsinghua would inherit the traditional Chinese virtues, and quoted the words of "striving for self-improvement" and "cherishing morality" in the Book of Changes to inspire students in Tsinghua. From then on, Tsinghua people wrote the words "self-improvement, kindness and morality" into the school rules of Tsinghua, and later gradually evolved into the school motto of Tsinghua.

People with extraordinary talents without perseverance and perseverance will only become fleeting sparks. Many people who are strong-willed, persistent and even slightly dull will surpass those who have only talent but no perseverance. Laziness is a poison, poisoning people's body and mind.

Tsinghua University's school motto is "strive for self-improvement, be virtuous and carry things", requiring students to write articles. It is found that although students can understand the meaning of "self-improvement" from the front, they are not very clear about its profound meaning.

"Paying attention to morality" is conducive to promoting people to pursue a noble spiritual life and promoting personal happiness. Confucianism emphasizes that the fundamental difference between humans and animals lies in people's pursuit of spiritual life. Advocating to seek the foundation of life and the source of happiness inward. Only spiritual enrichment and moral pursuit can we experience happiness and happiness from the inside out.

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