Fourth grade essay: "good moral behavior from me" reflections

The virtue of saving must not be lost

"Throughout the past sage country and family, success is due to hard work and thrift and failure is due to luxury". This is the history of the insightful people from the rise and fall of the family, the rise and fall of the countryside, the change of dynasties in the countless lessons learned from a profound warning. Recently, the Party Central Committee put forward the construction of a conservation-oriented society, from this warning to make a strategic initiatives related to the long-term development of the country and the rise and fall of the nation.

Conservation is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, is our nation's spiritual wealth passed down from generation to generation, but also our nation's hundredfold, the source of strength. This virtue of saving is honored by generations of Chinese people. As early as in the Spring and Autumn Period, frugality was

as a public virtue, advocated by the wise and benevolent. In the Analects of Confucius, there is a saying that "the man is warm, virtuous, respectful, thrifty, and generous." Among them, "thrift" is thrift. It means that Confucius had five virtues, including thrift, so he was able to win people's trust. Mozi also strongly advocated the need to "make a system of frugality" in the areas of clothing, food, housing, transportation, and funerals. "Saving money" is in line with "heavenly virtue". Extravagance and wastefulness is "robbing people of their food and clothing" and infringing on their right to live. In the Zuo Zhuan, it is said, "Thrift is the virtue of ****, and extravagance is the evil of greatness." Thrift is regarded as the basis for cultivating good morals, and extravagance is regarded as the root of all evils. Zhuge Liang said in the Book of Commandments: "The gentleman's behavior, quiet to cultivate oneself, thrift to cultivate virtue, not indifferent to the will, not quiet to the distance." For many years, in all periods of China's social development, hard work, simplicity, diligence and thrift have been advocated, maintained and promoted as a traditional virtue generally recognized by society. This is also an important factor in our country's growth from small to large and from weak to strong.

However, in our real life today, some comrades think that now is the new era of reform and opening up, the development of socialist market economy, the moral concept of "thrift" is outdated, the moral requirement of "thrift" is "outdated". "Outdated". Some even put "economize" in the ranks of the broken. Under the influence of this kind of wrong thinking, "hard work, thrift and economy" has almost become a synonym for "small peasant economic thinking". Extravagance is considered to have "style", "saving" is considered "incompetent". Some people are not ashamed to be extravagant and wasteful, but rather take pride in it. "Enjoy life, consume to the fullest", "good life first, overspending", "swollen face, show off consumption" has become part of the social groups of the "Fashion" and life philosophy. The phenomenon of wasting water, electricity, oil and paper in production and life is widespread. What is more serious is that some of our people "public servants", in the "saving" and waste of big misplaced on the issue, but also right and wrong, and even take the lead to talk about ostentation, more than generous, greedy for pleasure, do not want to forge ahead. According to reports, in 2004, the national expenditure on public food and drink, public vehicles and public overseas travel *** amounted to 700 billion yuan, of which 300 billion yuan was spent on public vehicles, 200 billion yuan on food and drink, and 200 billion yuan on overseas travel. What kind of concept is this 700 billion yuan? If calculated on the basis of our country's 1.3 billion people, the average person has to pay for the "three public" is more than 538 yuan. If we allow this kind of extravagance and wastefulness to spread, our Chinese nation "rich can not be obscene, poor can not be moved, the mighty can not be bent" temperament and spiritual pillars will be destroyed, our party "the world's worries first, after the world's happiness and happiness, "Suffering before enjoyment" of the advanced nature and purity will be lost, and ultimately jeopardize our grand cause. This wrong tendency must be firmly resisted and opposed.

It is true that with the development of reform, opening up and modernization, the material living standards of our people have improved greatly. But. Our country is not rich. The country's rural areas there are still more than 29 million poor people who have not been able to solve the problem of subsistence; the city there are still more than 18 million people is the net income of the minimum subsistence level below the line; there are a lot of poor areas of the teachers can not pay salaries, the children can not afford to go to school to pay the tuition fee; there are a lot of places are relying on the central government's financial subsidies to maintain their livelihoods; there are also some have been resolved to solve the subsistence level of the poor population, encountered natural disasters, and then returned to poverty. "Often will there be days to think of no days, do not wait for no time to think of sometimes." (Ming. Unknown "Mingxianji") Our country is, after all, a relatively economically and culturally backward developing China. Even if we reach a moderately prosperous level, we can't talk about affluence; even if we reach the level of medium-developed countries by the middle of this century, there is no reason why we can be extravagant and wasteful. Comrade Mao Zedong has repeatedly admonished us to "build the country economically and do everything economically." Comrade Deng Xiaoping has repeatedly said, "We are a poor country, a big country, so we must work hard." Therefore, the traditional virtue of "hard work and thrift" can never be lost.

China is a developing country with a large population, a relative lack of resources and an inherently fragile ecology. We want to build socialist modernization, catch up with the world's developed countries, there is not much superior material conditions and rich natural resources can rely on. There is only one way to go, and that is to work hard, to save every bit of limited resources as much as possible, so that they can be put to maximum use; to save every bit of financial and material resources as much as possible, so that they can be used where they are most needed for modernization; and to nourish our land as much as possible, bit by bit, with the sweat of our brow. In this sense, diligence and thrift is the most precious treasure of our nation, the most reliable resource, and also the real advantage and reliable guarantee that we can confidently get rid of poverty and become rich and strong. Diligence is the water of sweet springs, frugality is the pot of treasure. Thrift is not only a stopgap measure when material conditions are poor, but also a moral virtue and spiritual state that a good nation must have, and also a civilized fashion that a progressive society should advocate, and a basic quality that a contemporary citizen should have. Saving is an inexhaustible wealth. Whether in the hardship of adversity, or in the favorable conditions of the smooth time, this moral requirement will not be out of date, and should not be out of date.

Now the world is many countries, including some very economically developed countries also pay attention to saving. Japan's level of economic development is much higher than ours, and their per capita income is more than 20,000 dollars. But their schools are carrying out all kinds of "remembrance of the bitter sweet" education, frustration education, education of the next generation to know "every grain of pain" reason, so that in peace and security, self-improvement. Switzerland is one of the richest countries in the world. However, they also pay attention to saving and thrift in production, and pay attention to careful budgeting in life. In contrast, China's per capita gross national product has only reached 1,000 U.S. dollars, while the society is blowing the wind of Chongqiao, than broad. Speaking of enjoyment, high consumption are prematurely appeared in front of us, which with our national conditions, compared with the developed countries in the world, how incongruous ah!

In the whole society vigorously advocate "saving" the traditional virtues, focusing on practice, is valuable to adhere to. We should firmly establish "to hard work and simplicity, hard work and thrift for honor, to waste, luxury and profligacy for shame" of the concept of honor and shame; party cadres to take the lead in the wind of saving savings for the masses to make an example; each family should save home, do not waste, not overspending; each citizen should consciously promote the good style of saving in the work, study and life. Every citizen should consciously carry forward the fine style of saving and economizing in work, study and life, and develop the good habit of saving a drop of water, a degree of electricity, a piece of paper, a drop of oil, a grain of rice. As long as we all start from me, from the specific things, really put into practice, long-term persistence, the traditional virtues of thrift and frugality will certainly be able to further develop and flourish in the whole society.