What do the eight honors and eight shames mean?

Interpretation of "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces"

Interpretation of General Secretary Hu Jintao's speech on "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces"

To be proud of loving the motherland, to endanger the motherland Be ashamed of;

Be proud of serving the people, be ashamed of betraying the people;

Be proud of advocating science, be ashamed of being ignorant;

Be proud of hard work

Be proud of working together, and be ashamed of being lazy;

Be proud of solidarity and mutual help, be ashamed of benefiting yourself at the expense of others;

Be proud of being honest and trustworthy, be ashamed of being unjust;

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Be proud of obeying the law and be ashamed of breaking the law;

Be proud of hard work and be ashamed of being arrogant and extravagant.

Interpretation:

The ancients said: Those who do not know honor and disgrace cannot be adults. When General Secretary Hu Jintao visited members of the CPPCC on the 4th, he proposed the concept of honor and disgrace with the specific content of "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces", which has set a new benchmark for the moral construction of our country's citizens.

One of the honors and shames is to insist on being proud of loving the motherland and being ashamed of harming the motherland. If the country is not strong, individuals will never be strong, just like saplings will never grow into towering trees without a vast sky and fertile soil. Patriotism means loving yourself. "It is the most glorious thing to be able to devote yourself to the cause of your motherland." The more we contribute to our motherland, the more glorious and broader our lives will be.

The second honor and shame is to be proud to serve the people and ashamed to betray the people. Whether it is Mencius's "Old people are like the old people, young people are like the young people" or Montesquieu's "Personal interests are always included in the interests of the public", they are all proud of serving the people. . Even the great poet Petofi firmly believed: Whoever is a poet must work hard to be with the people!

The third honor and shame is to be proud of advocating science and be ashamed of ignorance. Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and contemporary competition is largely a competition of scientific spirit. Galileo said: "I sold my profession, and my existence is not allowed in the ranks of science." This is dedication to science. Marie Curie said: "I discovered radium, but I did not create it, so it does not belong to me personally. It is the property of all mankind." This is a belief in science. Beethoven said: "People should not give up having children because of the death of their children." This is to transform the scientific spirit into realistic rational survival.

The fourth honor and shame is to be proud of hard work and ashamed of indolence. Human beings originate from labor. The spring silkworms will not run out of silk until they die, and the wax torches will turn to ashes before their tears dry up. Highly intelligent human beings must surpass the "spring silkworms" and the "wax torches". Lu Xun said it well, "As long as you can cultivate a flower, you might as well turn it into a rotten weed" - only labor can benefit the people.

The fifth honor and shame is to be proud of solidarity and mutual assistance, and to be ashamed of benefiting oneself at the expense of others. Unity is strength, this strength is iron, this strength is steel. The poet Rabindranath Tagore vividly described the reason why people in society should be united: "The career of fruits is noble, the career of flowers is sweet, but let us do the career of leaves, which hang their green shade humbly and attentively. "——Only when fruits, flowers and leaves are united can there be harmonious beauty.

The sixth aspect of honor and shame is to be proud of being honest and trustworthy, and to be ashamed of being unjust and unjust. From Xunzi's "Be honest and then benefit, you will be honored; put benefit first and then be righteous, you will be humiliated" to Su Shi's "If it is not my property, I will not take even a cent of it", all illustrate how important integrity is.

The seventh part of honor and shame is to be proud of obeying the law and to be ashamed of violating the law. The only authority for the people is the law. In a country ruled by law, everyone should respect the law and regard the law as a sacred norm.

The eighth principle of honor and shame is to be proud of hard work and ashamed of arrogance and extravagance. Be prepared for danger in times of peace, avoid extravagance and use frugality; build a reputation with frugality, and lose yourself with extravagance; a house full of gold and jade, no one can keep it; being arrogant when you are rich, you will be blamed for it; looking at the virtuous countries and families in the past, success is due to diligence and frugality, and luxury is destroyed. Even though a well-off society is just around the corner, we still cannot forget that "it is easy to be frugal to add luxury, but it is difficult to be frugal to add luxury; building a country through diligence and frugality is always the mantra".

Keeping in mind the "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces", our moral principles will naturally become clear