The significance of traditional virtue to modern etiquette

China's traditional etiquette essentially belongs to the ideology of the exploiting class, but it also contains the essence of traditional culture in an elegant form. Under the new historical conditions, only by absorbing reasonable and beneficial factors from traditional etiquette and endowing it with new connotation of the times and realizing the organic integration of tradition and modernity can traditional etiquette serve the construction of a harmonious socialist society. The modern value of China's traditional etiquette is various, which needs our in-depth study and excavation. At present, we can focus on its role in strengthening citizens' moral construction and improving social supervision.

Strengthen citizen's moral construction through traditional etiquette. China's traditional etiquette is closely combined with morality, which contains rich requirements of moral norms. To build a harmonious socialist society, an important aspect is to strengthen the construction of citizens' morality. Although the connotation of current moral construction is essentially different from that of traditional morality, it is of great benefit to strengthen the current civic moral construction to excavate some beneficial thoughts and practices in traditional morality according to the principle of "taking the essence and discarding the dross". China's "Implementation Outline of Citizen's Moral Construction" lists politeness and honesty as the basic moral norms and civility and courtesy as the main content of social morality, which requires us to combine the positive factors in traditional etiquette with modern people's values and social practice and innovate the form of citizen's moral construction. At present, traditional etiquette can be used to strengthen the construction of social morality and professional ethics. As a kind of social morality, traditional etiquette embodies the moral requirements of maintaining harmonious order in the field of social public affairs, mainly coordinating interpersonal relationships in social public affairs life; As a kind of professional ethics, traditional etiquette embodies the moral requirements of a specific occupation and mainly coordinates the relationship between employees and customers. Explore the moral norms in traditional etiquette, educate the general public to be polite, value etiquette and treat others with courtesy; Educate people from all walks of life to love their jobs, respect their clients, abide by professional ethics, and form a good moral trend in the whole society.

Perfecting social adjustment through traditional etiquette. Social stability and order is the proper meaning in the topic of socialist harmonious society, which is reflected in the existence of relatively stable and coordinated society. System is an important factor to restrain social behavior and stabilize social order, which can be divided into formal system and informal system. Traditional etiquette belongs to the category of informal system. From the perspective of social regulation, the formal system adopts mandatory regulation, and the informal system adopts indirect mandatory regulation. The adjustment of social order by traditional etiquette is often achieved through established group norms and cultural identity, which is a more effective way to adjust in some cases. Traditional etiquette emphasizes the standardization, order and coordination of behavior. Norms require people's behavior to conform to the requirements of traditional etiquette norms, order requires people's behavior to proceed in an orderly manner, and coordination requires people's behavior to be coordinated. These requirements are conducive to the formation of strict order. In the process of building a harmonious socialist society, we should deeply study the role of traditional etiquette in regulating social order, attach great importance to the significance of traditional etiquette in realizing social stability and order, give full play to the role of traditional etiquette as a lubricant of social relations, a link of interpersonal communication and a means of resolving contradictions, and constantly promote social harmony.