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Treat China's traditional morality

To treat Chinese moral tradition correctly, we can't completely affirm, copy, deny and abandon it.

The traditional virtues of the Chinese nation refer to the outstanding moral heritage handed down from China's 5,000-year history, which is influential, can be inherited and continuously innovated and developed, and is beneficial to the next generation.

To sum up, it is the sum of the excellent quality, excellent national spirit, lofty national integrity, noble national feelings and good national habits of the Chinese nation. It marks the "shape" and "soul" of the Chinese nation. It is also the crystallization of China people's practice in dealing with interpersonal relationships, the relationship between people and society, and the relationship between people and nature for more than 2,000 years.

Performance aspect

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The traditional virtues of the Chinese nation emphasize the establishment of harmonious interpersonal relationships. It advocates "righteousness is the highest", "righteousness is the highest" and "righteousness is the first", and requires "forgetting righteousness when looking at profit" and "forgetting righteousness when looking at profit".

"Righteousness" refers to national interests and national interests, "profit" refers to personal interests, and "gain" refers to what you get. Emphasize that social interests are higher than personal interests, and emphasize the moral obligation of individuals to the whole. This is a group spirit rooted in social culture, and then extended to the collectivism spirit of the whole nation and country.

good and honest

Confucius advocated "the benevolent loves others", and Mencius put forward the idea of "valuing the monarch and neglecting the people". This idea of asking everyone to respect, understand, care, love and help others with kindness is the most popular moral heritage among the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation.

Building a harmonious society benefits all the people and embodies their fundamental interests and common aspirations. A harmonious society will not appear out of thin air, nor will it wait. Building a harmonious society is everyone's responsibility. Man is the sum of social relations and the main body of social construction. A harmonious and beautiful society needs down-to-earth efforts and the participation of all the people.

Each member of the society performs his/her duties, assumes his/her own professional and social roles, and does his/her duty with due diligence. Every member of society abides by his own rules, has a sense of law and integrity, and consciously abides by social rules, regulations and public order. Everyone has actions and everyone contributes, so that our society can achieve harmony faster and better.