What are the virtues of China's traditional morality?

Four virtues: loyalty, filial piety, chastity and righteousness. Virtues such as loyalty, filial piety, chastity and righteousness are the basic moral values of our society.

Loyalty means respect and loyalty. Shuowen explained: "Loyalty and forgiveness. Committed to loyalty. " Guang Yun explained: "Loyalty and selflessness". Confucius said: "loyalty is the main thing", and people should take "loyalty" as the main morality. As a moral standard, "loyalty" refers to a person's sincere attitude towards people and things, and the act of honestly seeking things for others, which is a category of regulating the relationship between people.

Confucianism regards "loyalty" as a moral category, which also includes the moral relationship between monarch and minister, individual and country and nation. According to the feudal concept in the past, that is, officials must obey the monarch absolutely. "If your main courtiers die, they will die." Even a tyrant can't resist.

Filial piety is filial piety, filial piety. The Book of Filial Piety says: "Those who are filial have the experience of heaven, the meaning of the earth and the foundation of man", and "those who are filial have the foundation of virtue". Filial piety is a moral principle that China attached great importance to in ancient times. Sun Yat-sen pointed out in the article "Democracy of the Three People's Principles": "The word filial piety in the book of filial piety is almost all-encompassing and ubiquitous." The most basic connotation of filial piety is children's filial piety to their parents.

Festival means solar terms and ethics. There are two meanings here: first, it refers to faithful chastity, without gender color, so men's loyalty and patriotism to the monarch are also chastity; Second, women don't remarry or lose their virginity. In fact, the essence of the two is the same, which means that a person can stick to his beliefs and not be polluted by the world.

Righteousness is morality and justice The Book of Rites The Doctrine of the Mean says: "Those who are righteous should also be righteous. Respect for capital is great. " China's traditional culture regards righteousness as the ultimate goal and value orientation of life, and takes both benevolence and righteousness as the core content of traditional morality. In ancient feudal society, "righteousness" was a management tool advocated by rulers, and it was a moral norm that required rulers to obey until death.