What is the ideal personality pursuit of China traditional culture?

The ideal personality pursuit of China's traditional culture is to be sage inside and king outside. Being sage inside and being king outside is the highest ideal of self-cultivation in ancient times. The so-called sage's supreme virtue, applied to the outside world, is Wang Zheng. Example: the fourth book review university: "true learning, true diligence, sage inside and king outside, with this book."

The origin of the idiom: "Zhuangzi is the world" by Zhuang Zhou in the pre-Qin Dynasty: "The sage inside is the king outside, dark and unknown, depressed and not doing anything, and everyone in the world does whatever he wants, taking himself as his own way." Although the word "sage inside and king outside" first appeared in Zhuangzi Tianxiapian, it has become synonymous with the characteristics of Confucian philosophy, so it is generally said that Confucianism is actually the way of "sage inside and king outside" and the core of China's philosophy.