What is gratitude for Chinese studies?

In fact, China culture has attached great importance to "goodness" since ancient times. Giving kindness and repaying kindness is the value that China has sung over the years. Therefore, words such as "the kindness of dripping water is rewarded when the spring pours back", "the kindness is not great", "the sheep will kneel when it is kind, and the crow will feed back" and "the father's kindness is higher than the sky, and the mother's kindness is deeper than the sea" will be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

For another example, the idiom "knot grass ring" is widely used for gratitude, which contains two stories: the old man tied a straw rope to repay his kindness on the battlefield, and the yellowbird bit Yuhuan to repay his life; The earliest source of "staying out" is that Jin Wengong repaid the kindness of Wang Cheng in exile; "One thousand yuan for a meal" is Han Xin's gratitude for the meal given by the folk old woman when she was desperate.

Legends with mythical colors are even more about kindness: Legend of White Snake is a story of a white snake repaying a debt of gratitude, Legend of Liu Yi is a story of a dragon girl repaying a debt of gratitude, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is a story of a fox thanking a king, and even the story of Lin Daiyu thanking Jia Baoyu in A Dream of Red Mansions is also a story triggered by tears in this life.

It can be seen that the praise of kindness in China traditional culture is to further reflect the feeling of "gratitude" and implement it as a concrete act of "repaying kindness".