What are the spiritual qualities?

Spiritual qualities include helping others, sacrificing oneself for others, selfless dedication, modesty and prudence, respecting the old and loving the young, and so on.

An important feature of China's traditional culture is that it attaches great importance to the education and shaping of people themselves, that is, to make people constantly rise from the state of animals.

Confucian scholars believe that the biggest difference between human beings and animals is that human beings have advanced spiritual needs, including moral needs, dedication needs, aesthetic needs and so on. This spiritual demand is different from the material utility demand. It is the transcendence of material utility demand and the perceptual existence of individual life.

How to cultivate good spiritual quality

In the view of ancient thinkers in China, the goal of philosophy and aesthetics is to guide people to attach importance to spiritual life, have lofty spiritual pursuit, and seek the ultimate meaning and sacred value of life from reality. Both philosophy and aesthetics should point to a lofty spiritual realm.

According to China's aesthetics, aesthetic activities can improve people's cultural quality and character in many aspects, but the significance of aesthetic activities to life ultimately boils down to guiding people to have lofty spiritual pursuits and enhancing people's life realm. China's traditional philosophy attaches great importance to the realm of life.

Feng Youlan believes that the theory of life realm is the most valuable content in China's traditional philosophy. Feng Youlan said that on the surface, everyone in the world has a world. In fact, everyone's world is different, because the world means different things to everyone. For example, Feng Youlan said that they were traveling together in a famous mountain.

One is a geologist. On this mountain, he saw some kind of geological structure. One is a historian who saw some historical sites on this mountain. Therefore, the same mountain means different things to these two people.

There are many things, some people regard them as treasures, others regard them as dirt. Although a thing is the same thing, its meaning to everyone can be different. Therefore, everyone has their own world. In other words, everyone has his own realm. No two people in the world have exactly the same realm.