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Chinese traditional virtues --- loyalty, filial piety, honesty, shame and courage after reading

Benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust, loyalty, filial piety, honesty, shame and courage." This is our Chinese people for thousands of years not defeated in the world's fundamental. Confucianism, Confucian word, is the human needs, in line with the human nature needs of learning. The founder of Confucianism first thought, "shame, is the difference between man and fowl," in such a realization of the premise, and put forward the "Road to the political, and qi to punishment, the people are free of shame; Road to virtue, and qi to the rituals, there is a shame and the frame" of the rule of the country. If the people are "shameless", it is difficult to curb the rising crime rate even if the government and the punishment are more and more heavy. However, once the people can "have shame" and "self-discipline", will consciously and voluntarily in accordance with the social norms and laws, adjust their own behavior, the society can have a true sense of harmony!

Another: Chinese people have always emphasized the "four dimensions and eight virtues", of which "propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame" constitute the "four dimensions"; and "eight virtues" are "loyalty, righteousness, integrity and shame". The "eight virtues" are "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, love, faith, righteousness, harmony and equality", which are called the "eight virtues" because they have eight characters. There are also "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust, loyalty, filial piety, section and courage and", "filial piety, brotherly love, loyalty, trust, courtesy, righteousness, honesty and shame.

"Benevolence": benevolence, love, benevolence. Since Confucius advocated the study of "benevolence", "benevolence" has become the "*** virtue" and "constant virtue" of the Chinese nation. Confucius put "benevolence" as the highest level of personal moral cultivation, "love for others" as the fundamental requirement of morality, "the world to benevolence" as the highest social moral ideal. To speak of "benevolence" is to speak of the relationship between people, and to speak of people's love for people, from the love of parents and siblings to the love of others. "Benevolence is not only the most basic virtue, but also the most universal standard of virtue, and "benevolence and love" has become a traditional cultural concept of the Chinese people. The Chinese still regard those who have virtue as "benevolent" and those who have no virtue as "unkind". The idea of "benevolence and love", as the main value orientation and moral requirements of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, has permeated the blood of the Chinese nation and forged the special qualities of the Chinese nation.