What are the traditional moral principles?

This is a big and complicated problem. For thousands of years, everything advocated by China culture and pursued by China people has been related to this issue. There are various civilizations and cultures in contemporary China, but China culture is intact and will not decline, and it will surely become the main axis of world culture. China's traditional moral thought has been enriched and developed in the long history. Without a clear standard of China's traditional morality, it seems difficult to understand all viewpoints and methods. We might as well sum up what the sages said in order to learn from our friends.

The first meaning of "virtue": "Three cardinal guides and six disciplines" is the essence and center of China culture. "Three cardinal guides" refer to the monarch, minister, father and son, husband and wife, that is, the monarch is the minister's cardinal guide, the father is the child's cardinal guide, and the husband is the wife's cardinal guide; "Six Sisters" refer to fathers (that is, brothers and sisters of fathers), brothers, clansmen, uncles (matriarchal family members), teachers and friends. (Chen Yinque's point of view)

The second essence of "virtue" with China's cultural characteristics is: respect for things, knowledge, integrity, honesty, self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world.

The third essence of "virtue": courtesy, righteousness, honesty and shame, loyalty and filial piety.

The first meaning stipulates the standard of social interpersonal relationship in which people live; The second essence is starting from people's heart and belongs to the category of human morality and politics; The third essence is the four pillars of national order, which cannot be destroyed.

The content of China's traditional morality;

The first part is the basic moral norms, including public loyalty, justice, kindness, neutrality, filial piety, honesty, forgiveness, humility, comity, self-improvement, chastity, wisdom, courage, temperance, honesty, frugality and love for things;

The second part is professional ethics, including political ethics, military ethics, scholar ethics, people ethics, business ethics, teacher ethics and artistic ethics;

The third part is the family ethics. The three main aspects are the standardization of parent-child relationship, the standardization of husband-wife relationship and the standardization of long-term relationship.

The fourth part is the norms of civilized etiquette, namely, the ceremony of respecting the elderly and loving the virtuous, the ceremony of treating people and things, the ceremony of manners and manners, and the ceremony of weddings and funerals.