How to recognize the fine moral tradition of the Chinese nation

In dealing with the issue of traditional Chinese morality, it is necessary to adhere to the position, viewpoints and methods of Marxism, which can neither be affirmed and copied wholesale, nor denied and discarded wholesale. According to the criteria of whether it is conducive to promoting the cause of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, whether it is conducive to the construction and formation of a moral system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, whether it is conducive to safeguarding the fundamental interests of the masses of the people, and whether it is conducive to the cultivation of the "four" new socialist men and women, it is necessary to do a good job of selecting and transforming them in a creative way. By analyzing, identifying, selecting and transforming, we should eliminate those elements with obvious class and period limitations, and inherit and promote the fine moral traditions, especially those positive elements that reflect universal, ****similar and general moral requirements and are still relevant to our moral practice today. According to this guiding principle, the correct attitude and basic policy towards traditional Chinese ethics and morals should be to critically inherit, discard the bad and extract the good, use the past for the present and synthesize and innovate, so as to make them compatible with contemporary society and harmonize them with modern civilization, maintain their ethnicity and reflect the nature of the times. Critical inheritance is the basic principle of treating traditional Chinese morality, indicating that our basic attitude towards traditional Chinese morality is to oppose both cultural retrofuturism and historical nihilism, but rather inheritance with criticism as a prerequisite, and criticism with inheritance as an aim; discarding the bad and extracting the best is the basic requirement of inheriting traditional morality and culture, indicating that our inheritance of traditional Chinese morality and culture is selective; the use of the past for the present is the basic purpose of studying and inheriting traditional Chinese morality. The basic purpose of inheriting traditional Chinese morality is to make traditional Chinese morality serve the moral construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the economic, political, cultural and social construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics; synthesis and innovation is the general destination of inheriting traditional Chinese morality. Synthesis here refers both to the synthesis of the excellent and reasonable ideological resources of Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, Mohism, and Buddhism and other cultural and religious schools of thought in Chinese traditional moral culture, as well as the synthesis of China's fine traditional moral culture with all the excellent moral cultural achievements of all mankind, and in particular, the synthesis of China's traditional moral culture with that of the present age. The innovation here is to make the traditional Chinese moral culture adapt to the contemporary society and harmonize with the modern civilization on the basis of the synthesis, maintaining the national character and reflecting the epochal character.