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What does Confucian traditional morality mainly include?

Confucian traditional morality mainly includes:

1. Asking people to act according to the golden mean, impartiality is mediocrity. The moral standard of the golden mean is still the norm of China people's life. The trip to the main road, serving the public, selecting talents and appointing talents, each in his place and doing his best, is the moral ideal of Confucianism. Self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and calming the world are the basic ways for Confucianism to carry out patriotic education and realize its political ideal of serving the world.

2. Confucianism pays attention to the integrity of personality, advocates the personality value of benevolence, righteousness, propriety and wisdom, and believes that integrity of personality is related to the rise and fall of a country and a nation. It values benevolence, righteousness, morality, courtesy and shame on life, and requires people to be rich but not lewd, poor but not humble, and unyielding. The concept of interpersonal harmony of loyalty and forgiveness is the psychological and behavioral principle of interpersonal relationship in traditional morality.

3. Confucian methods of moral cultivation, such as introspection, private prosecution and introspection, require people to be strict with themselves and beware of procrastination. The shaping and cultivation of Confucian ideal personality not only carries out purposeful moral education, but also encourages people to accomplish it through conscious moral cultivation. Confucianism believes that everything starts with personal moral cultivation.