What is the spiritual essence of traditional Chinese morality?

Of the many debates on traditional Chinese morality, the core and essence of the debate is the public-private distinction. Traditional Chinese virtues are rich in content and profound in depth, and "attaching importance to the overall interests and emphasizing responsibility and dedication" is one of the basic spirits of traditional Chinese virtues. Public and private as an important standard of value judgment in many areas, itself is the focus of the value of the dispute, public and private which has more priority, is an important topic of debate. In the development and evolution of traditional Chinese morality, attention has always been paid to the distinction between righteousness and profit, between reason and desire, and between public and private, with the core and essence being the distinction between public and private.

The social role of traditional Chinese virtues:

1. It is conducive to the harmonization of interpersonal relations.

Because the Chinese nation has established the moral system of "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy and trust" and advocated such a moral concept, which is conducive to the improvement of interpersonal relations. "Benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, trust" requires that people must be united with each other, love, goodwill, fairness, honesty and trustworthiness, which for us to deal with the relationship between people laid the ideological foundations and norms of behavior, but also traditional virtues after more than 2,500 years of the reason for the enduring and can continue to be carried forward and the important reason for the glory. The reason.

2. It is conducive to the improvement of social atmosphere.

According to the requirements of "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy and trust", our society should be a society of harmony, sincerity, courtesy and mutual help, where everyone does not do what is detrimental to others but what is beneficial to others and to the society, which will help to remove some of the undesirable atmosphere and form a "everyone for me, me for you" culture. This will help to remove some bad customs and form a social trend of "all for one and one for all", so that the whole society will be filled with the warm spring breeze of harmony, concord and peace. This is why the Chinese nation stretches over thousands of years of continuous development and progress of an important source of thought.