Give examples of traditional Chinese culture that we need to inherit and carry forward the essence of

Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, faith, propriety, wisdom and courage

What is loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness? What is loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, and what is faith, courtesy, wisdom and courage? Nowadays, you can only see them by reading street signs on the streets of Taipei. The anecdotal order that the "gentleman, minister, father, father, and son" way of life was meant to preserve is no longer here, and has severed our connection with "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness". "Faith, etiquette, wisdom and courage" is at least a common philosophy of survival and basic requirements of all societies, but we have grafted on the Western values, in the Confucian word shell, the connotation is no longer.

The ancients once regarded moral cultivation as the ultimate pursuit of life, but in today's globalized world, personal struggles, happiness and freedom are more important than morality, and today's children have a lot of other things to do.

The Four Books and Five Classics

Once upon a time, as a scholar who had to know the Four Books and Five Classics by heart before the age of 15, almost all of them were "bible worshippers" whose knowledge of the classics would make today's doctoral students in ancient literature despair. 19 January 1912, when the first national **Chief Education Officer decreed that "The reading of the Bible in primary schools is abolished", it was a feat of emancipation; as a consequence, nearly a century later, not many people can answer what the Four Books and Five Classics are anymore. Children are confused about the pillar system of thought in ancient China represented by the University, the Meanwhile, the Analects, and the Mencius; the I Ching, the Shang Shu, the Book of Poetry, the Book of Rites, and the Zuo Zhuan. Now, Shu Yi has founded a modern private school in Beijing that specializes in teaching the Four Books and Five Classics.

The spirit of chivalry

What is chivalry? It is "where the road lies, though ten million people I go; where righteousness lies, a thousand pieces of gold are dispersed without regret; where love lies, the world's rites and laws are like dung; where prosperity lies, drink 300 cups with you"; it is "kill a man at ten steps, leave no one behind for a thousand miles. After the matter whisks the clothes away, deep hiding body and name. Three cups of spit RanNuo, five mountains down for light. Even if I die, I will not be ashamed to be a hero in the world." It was Jing Ke, Nie Zheng, Quan Zhi, Li Bai, the floating mother who gave her a meal, the fisherwoman who saved Wu Zixu. But today they are all scattered in the wind. There is no longer a man who traveled thousands of miles to make a promise to a friend, and there is no longer a woman who "will rest her life to make you happy today". Gao Xiaosong wrote this in the text of his "Youth without Regrets".

From a young age, we have been taught to take care of ourselves and not to trust others, so what is the impetuousness? How can you have the windy and free-spirited bones? There has never been a young and frivolous, youth is incomplete youth, read more Jin Yong Gu Long also does not matter.

People have responsibilities

Responsible for the family, responsible for the clan, responsible for the country and the nation, responsible for the invisible and unknowable social atmosphere ...... This is the ancient shoulder N big mountain. And today, we have neither the obligation to dedicate ourselves to others nor the right to demand from others, we can only be responsible for ourselves. University" said at the beginning of the "ancient desire to bright virtue in the world" in today's mirror become a watery moon, Gu Yanwu's "the rise and fall of the country, everyone has the responsibility" in peacetime is more like an empty talk. So, we insist on not growing up, reading Japanese comics, listening to Twins, playing PUPA or Hello Kitty, wearing wide-legged pants full of pockets, the slogan is "I like, what can not"...... aggressive flood of freedom, so that the sense of responsibility The aggressive and free-flowing, so that the sense of responsibility is lost everywhere. The 10-year-old children, who have been exposed to this generation's laissez-faire, infinitely prolonged adolescence, how would they know what a sense of responsibility is?

Poetry

If the children of the 1990s were exposed to the beauty of classical poetry only from Jay Chou's "East Windbreak," isn't that a bit late? There are 42,863 poems in All Tang Poetry, 19,990 in All Song Lyrics, more than 900 poems by Li Bai, and more than 6,000 poems by Lu You, and that's just a fraction of the Chinese poems and songs. However, until we graduated from secondary school, we memorized only "small lotus only exposed the tip of the corner", "February spring wind like scissors" such a small mood, how to make us love our vast sea of poetry?

Not that classical poetry should be widely used, but its retreat and disappearance from our field of vision is the loss of aesthetic ability of this society. A child who has been nourished from childhood by the rhythms of "picking hibiscus from the river", "curling silk blowing in the courtyard" and "picking lamps in a drunken stupor to look at the sword" may not be so numb and cold in his mind when he grows up. The first time I saw the movie, I was so happy to see it.

Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting

Now, the image of the young and promising is young and rich, highly educated, high-income, high consumption, know how to make money but also know how to spend money, and no longer Nalan Rongruo the kind of proficiency in qin, chess, calligraphy and painting of the turbulent world of the good son. Adult values are reproduced and even reinforced in the next generation. Learning to play the zither (the piano, not the guzheng) must be examined, playing chess unless you want to become a national player like Chang Hao, and calligraphy and painting is a regular program at the Children's Palace for extra points in higher education....... That initial elegance has been distorted under the pressure of parents' chicken feather dusters and exams, and can no longer maintain their aesthetic shapes.

Kong Rong gives up his pear

"Why did Kong Rong give up his pear?" "Because the bigger pear is bad." That ancient, stubborn and stereotypical Kong Rong would have jumped up and down in his coffin in anger if he had heard that answer from a child today. Yes, traditional moral paradigms are being lost, and the children of the 1990s are being taught that no laborer shall eat. They are put in the middle of competition almost from the time they know how, and are Darwinists by nature. A third-grader has to attend 40 lessons a week and practice the piano for three hours a day; a sixth-grader does homework until 12 o'clock at night; and a junior has to compete in math contests, English speech contests, and student council races outside of school....... How can he say, "Classmate, I don't want the first place, I'll let you have it?

No one will appreciate Kong Rong. It's just that when the whole society starts to agree with the value of industrial civilization that "humility makes people lag behind", the kind of personality charm that the ancient Chinese had, which was once as warm and gentle as jade, will also be annihilated.

The imperial examinations

Since Sui Daye's third year (607), for thousands of years, the poor people have been through the imperial examinations to jump into the Dragon Gate. From the "township test", "will test" to the "Palace test", held every three years, the imperial examinations so that "the world's heroes into our enough "More than 1300 years later, the abolition of the imperial examinations, the rise of schools, has become an inevitable trend of historical development. Western education system in the room. Private schools have become covered with historical dust moths of the old and rotten, and science has become the new favorite.

Today's private schools exist sporadically as news, but you can no longer hear the sound of children reciting aloud. Under today's values, children have little interest in anything that does not serve a practical function.

Folklore

New Year's Eve touching the door nail firecrackers, on the Yuan to eat dumplings put lanterns twisting rice-planting songs, Dragon Boat Dragon Boat Race in the end of the Dragon Boat Festival to insert Ai hanging incense symbols, in the Yuan YuLanFan will drive away exorcism ...... With the big cities fully prohibited firecrackers, these festivals away from us asymptotically, the children's immaterial gained by the wild interest, but also gradually diluted. How many children still know the floating color? How many children still know Taikaku?