Understanding of the traditional virtues of loyalty and patriotism

In the long-term survival and development, the Chinese nation has gradually condensed into a deep patriotic feeling for the motherland and formed a noble righteousness of loyalty, patriotism and national integrity. This kind of patriotism can be said to be the simplest emotion and character, and it is a direct expansion of love for home and hometown. Because in China society, home-hometown-country is directly connected, China people always call their country "motherland", which is not only the source of food and clothing, but also the source of emotion, and they have a strong sense of attachment to it. Patriotism, as a kind of "deep affection for the motherland consolidated for thousands of years", is the sublimation of loving the family, thus forming a lofty moral character of defending national dignity and safeguarding the interests of the motherland.

In China's traditional thought, loving the motherland and the nation is regarded as a "big festival". Although it was associated with loyal monarch in feudal society and had the limitations of the times, it regarded monarch as the representative of the country in essence, and behind loyal monarch was a profound national consciousness. This spirit of loyalty and patriotism is the cohesion of the Chinese nation and the spiritual force to promote national development. Especially when the country and the nation are in danger, people of all ethnic groups stand up against foreign aggression and oppression, "defend the country and defend the country", persevere and die for the country. In the development of thousands of years, the reason why the Chinese nation did not perish in the face of repeated foreign invasions is directly related to this patriotic tradition.

There have been many famous patriots and national heroes in the history of our country, such as patriotic poets Qu Yuan and Lu You, Su Wu who didn't insult the envoys, Yang Jiajiang who fought against foreign invasion one after another, Yue Fei and Wen Tianxiang who served the country faithfully, Lin Zexu and Guan Tianpei during the Crow War, Deng Shichang during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, etc., all of which are outstanding representatives of practicing the patriotic virtues of the Chinese nation.