Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - Loyalty; filial piety; benevolence; righteousness;

Loyalty; filial piety; benevolence; righteousness;

Loyalty; Filial Piety; Benevolence; Righteousness

Loyalty: one must be loyal to one's parents, family, clan, and country; one must not betray one's parents, family, or country;

Filial Piety: the younger generation must be filial to and support their elders. This is why Chinese people who come to Canada attach so much importance to bringing their parents, elder brothers, etc. over.

Benevolence: "A benevolent person loves others", "respect and love", that is, "benevolence and love". Mencius said: "Compassion is the end of benevolence". Compassion is the heart of sympathy, the heart of intolerance. "Ren" emphasizes the creation of a harmonious society that is people-oriented.

Righteousness: "to do what is right in the world". Mencius said, "Righteousness, the right way of man, the end of the righteousness of the heart of shame and evil". Righteousness is a measure of people's thoughts and behaviors. "Righteousness" is to put the interests of the country and the nation first, and to put the interests of the collective first; and from a small point of view, it is to respect the interests of others. Mencius said: "I want to be born, I want to be righteous, I can't have both, give up my life and take righteousness". It is advocated that one would rather give up one's life than forget one's righteousness. Chinese traditional morality has always advocated the promotion of "kill the body into benevolence", "give up life for righteousness", advocating the promotion of "see righteousness and courage, see the benefits of righteousness". The first is that the first is the first to be able to see the world, and the second is the first to be able to see the world.

Attachment: courtesy, wisdom, faith, shame

Courtesy: respect for law and discipline. In addition to the requirements of etiquette, manners, etiquette and other aspects, but also includes the content of indoctrination. Only in the work, everything to the ritual and behavior, society can be more harmonious.

Wisdom refers to knowledge, wisdom, skills and strategies. It is the ability to recognize good and evil, beauty and ugliness, truth and falsehood, right and wrong, and the mind. Mencius said, "The heart of right and wrong is the end of wisdom. Only with this condition of wisdom can we not polarize and absolutize benevolence, righteousness, propriety, faith, honesty, and shame into rigid dogmas, and can we make the excellent contents of these traditional cultures come to life. All things can be differentiated between right and wrong, society can be harmonious.

The letter, in the human moral system can be said to be a fundamental category. Confucius said: "Faith is the foundation of a man, and a man cannot stand without faith. The fact that people do not have faith does not know what they can do. This explains the position of faith in the whole moral system. What is faith? It is honesty and credit. To be trustworthy, we should establish a credit system in the whole social structure. Supplemented by laws and regulations to severely punish dishonest people and things, the whole society to form a harmonious situation of mutual trust, honesty and no deception. Speak of faith also have sincere as a prerequisite, do foundation, sincere is all the behavior of the push new power, with "sincere", do anything will be able to stick to the end. Sincerity is sincerity, sincerity. In order to establish credit, we must first be sincere, sincere people, keep faith will not be reluctant.

Shame: It means the heart of shame, the heart of shame. With the heart of shame, we can not speak, not move, not hear, not see. Words, move, see, disrespect, disrespect on the shame, will be pointed out by others spine.