Spiritual Civilization in the History of Chinese Social Customs

Modern China is in a period of social and cultural transition, which means that traditional morality is in decline and social and cultural psychology is out of balance, while socialist spiritual civilization has not yet been established. For example, Confucian filial piety has a series of complicated ethical and moral norms, such as "warming the body in winter and clearing the mind in summer", "setting the clock for the morning", doing filial piety at the knee, giving birth to a son and succeeding the father, offering sacrifices at the end of his life, hiding the son from his father, avoiding his father and ancestor's name, building up his reputation, and not destroying his hair or skin. We say that this is feudal filial piety, but we cannot come up with a theory of "filial piety" for socialist spiritual civilization. Therefore, the construction of socialist spiritual civilization is not an empty sermon, but has rich and specific contents. Cultural transformation must be based on prototypes, and the reconstruction of values cannot be constructed out of thin air. Social customs from the customs, etiquette, practices and other levels of perspective in different periods of people's cultural and psychological structure of the values, is the socialist spiritual civilization for the optimization of choice, rich cultural and spiritual resources.