Prose Inheriting China's Traditional Virtues

Self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world are the representative thoughts of Confucianism, in which self-cultivation is the premise and keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world is the ultimate goal. I think this idea is embodied in Chinese traditional virtues, that is, loyalty and filial piety, loyalty to the country and filial piety to the family.

Loyalty, originally refers to a correct attitude and pay attention to correcting mistakes. As a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, it requires integrity, dedication, adherence to the truth, seeking truth from facts, loyalty to others, loyalty to the monarch and the country.

Loyalty, as a traditional moral model in feudal society, has also led to many historical tragedies, and the causes of these tragedies largely depend on the primary and secondary issues of loyalty to the monarch or the country. The most typical one is Yue Fei's loyal service to the country. I think Yue Fei's fame depends on his loyalty to his country.

Since the humiliation of Jingkang and Qin Hui in the Northern Song Dynasty was captured by Jin Lu, social unrest urgently needed someone to preside over the state affairs, and soon Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou succeeded to the throne, that is, the Southern Song Dynasty. Yue Fei was born at the right time, joined the army three times, recovered Jiankang, and made the six counties belong to the Southern Song Dynasty. A gentleman should be like this. Just as Yue Fei made an impassioned advance into the Central Plains to prepare for the Second Saint, he was intercepted as never before, and was called back by Song Gaozong's. 12 gold medal. Yue Fei's painstaking ten years fell short!

To be fair, did Yue Fei advance into the Central Plains and go straight to Huanglong to meet the unhappy Ersheng? The answer is yes, but some people don't like it. This man is Song Gaozong Zhao Gou. Generally speaking, the Song Dynasty can be reunified, and the people will no longer be displaced and bullied by the Jin people. This is Yue Fei's ideal of serving the country faithfully. However, judging from the consciousness of Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou, this is really terrible. When the two saints welcome back, three emperors appear at the same time, which is another cruel power struggle.

Therefore, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou borrowed Qin Gui's hand to get rid of Yue Fei. After Yue Fei was summoned back by Twelve Gold, he never boasted again. He regretted that ten years of skill had been destroyed. In feudal ancient times, the monarch ordered the minister to die, and the minister had to die. Loyalty to the monarch and disloyalty to the monarch were doomed to be a tragedy.

The family is a microcosm of a small country, and the country is a collection of many families and clans. Loyalty is the foundation of a country, and filial piety, as a traditional Chinese virtue, is equally important to families and clans.

The traditional explanation of filial piety is that everything in the world is changing and endless. Taken together, the next generation conforms to the previous generation, which is actually the relationship between the previous generation and the next generation.

Modern people live in a foreign land because of the change of transportation mode, and their family and even family consciousness are relatively weak, especially the empty nesters and left-behind children in rural areas, which has to become a serious social problem. This kind of social problem has existed since ancient times. The difference is that most ancient people left their homes to be officials and businessmen, while most people today are forced to make a living. Many people say that good men are ambitious and young people should travel abroad more. It is better to go to Wan Li Road to study in thousands of books, but people with families have to take care of them after all. Family is the backing of career success.

This problem is very contradictory, that is, it is difficult to have both loyalty and filial piety. From the point of filial piety, when parents are sick, children should taste soup and give orders from the front. The Book of Songs says, "My father gave birth to me, and my mother bowed to me, spoiled me, nurtured me, protected me, and went in and out of my stomach." If you want to report virtue, you will be extremely confused. "So, it is human nature to serve parents at home, and human nature cannot be violated. From the point of loyalty, if you go home to be filial, you have to ask for leave. In an important position, if you can't get away for a while, you have to be self-denial and take care of the overall situation.

At this stage of social development, filial piety is still necessary. Filial piety is the foundation of family harmony. Family harmony can make your career worry-free. If you have a successful career, you can make a profit. If the profit-making party can make the society harmonious, it can share the worries for the country and be loyal to it.

Therefore, filial piety can be sublimated into loyalty to a certain extent, which is the basis for Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty to advocate filial piety. Loyalty to the country is the profit-making side. I think the significance of profit-making party is higher than going home to be filial. Therefore, the for-profit party should be filial to a certain extent, so it is loyal to the country and filial to the family.