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What aspects does virtue cultivation include?

First, the so-called traditional virtues of the Chinese nation are the sum of excellent national qualities, excellent national spirit, lofty national integrity, noble national feelings and good national etiquette. It enables people to cultivate patriotic sentiments from an early age and establish the ambition of patriotism and love for the people; It makes people filial to their parents and full of filial piety; It helps people to help others. It affects everything around, making people understand that the beauty of the soul is the real beauty, thus making up for ignorance, clumsiness, ugliness and shortcomings.

Traditional virtues include the following contents: benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faithfulness, filial piety, loyalty, sincerity, shame, diligence, courage, respect, forgiveness, honesty, frugality, forbearance, friendship, kindness and harmony.

The content of traditional virtue is profound and involves all fields of social life. To sum up, it can be divided into three aspects: self-cultivation, keeping the family in order and governing the country.

1, "cultivate one's morality" means to make an individual possess virtue by cultivating one's morality. The Confucian classic "University Bible" said: "After self-cultivation, the family will be in harmony, the family will be in harmony, and the country will be in harmony." The purpose of self-cultivation is to maintain family harmony and govern the country. The standard of self-cultivation is that an individual achieves a higher moral accomplishment. Personal virtues mainly include: high ambition, honesty and trustworthiness, integrity and self-improvement.

2. "Family harmony" refers to the virtue that a family should possess. Family is the basic cell of society, and everything goes well at home. Family virtues mainly include: respecting the old and caring for the young, equality between men and women, harmony between husband and wife, respect for brothers and sisters, diligence and housekeeping, and neighborhood unity.

3. "Governing the country" refers to the virtue that should be possessed in the world. Governing the country, in today's words, is the way to live. The virtues of life include professional virtues and public virtues. The main contents include: loyalty to the country, diligence and love for the people, fair law enforcement, courage, helpfulness, fairness and justice, courtesy and humility, fair trade, respect for teachers, diligence and dedication, and saving lives.

Three, the eight contents of China's traditional virtues:

1, the basic spirit of virtue is based on virtue, emphasizing the difference between humans and animals. People without conscience are not as good as good, which is reflected in the pursuit of new morality and moral values, mainly including: integrity, modesty, kindness and learning.

2. The essence is to benefit by righteousness, and the value of human beings should be based on morality and sublimated into a outlook on life.

3. Advocating self-discipline and self-cultivation is the embodiment that the Chinese nation has always attached importance to personality cultivation, which mainly includes sentiment, introspection, self-denial, modesty, speech and generosity.

4. Serve the country faithfully.

5. Kindness and filial piety.

6. Honesty and courtesy.

7. The world is public.

8. Self-improvement.

Fourth, the excellent traditional virtues nurtured by 5,000 years of history:

Diligence, respect for teachers and respect for parents; Hard-working and brave, helping the poor, hard-working, bear the burden of humiliation, filial piety to the world, ready to help others, change money and so on. People who help others are willing to give others happiness and help people in trouble to do what they can;

Selflessness, hatred of evil, honesty and trustworthiness, no empty talk, no extravagance and frugality, anti-procrastination, self-cultivation, generosity and gentleness, courtesy and thrift;

The dedication of respecting teachers and valuing morality, neglecting public interests and private interests;

Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, and the patriotic feelings of "fortunes depend on each other and the country lives and dies";

The lofty ambition of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later";

Self-improvement, hard work, diligence and courage;

The integrity of "wealth can't be lewd, poverty can't be moved, and power can't be bent";

The broad mind of being able to help the world;

The heroic spirit of giving up one's life for righteousness and being brave;

The social ideal of "taking the world as your own responsibility";

The social fashion of "don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you".