What are the most important traditional Chinese virtues? Write an essay

It should be an argumentative essay, right? Give you a little something Respect for the Elderly

The Chinese people have a long tradition of respecting the elderly. We should inherit and carry forward this fine tradition. Mencius said, "We honor the old as well as the old." Not only should we respect our own parents, but also respect all the elderly, the whole society should love and respect the elderly, so that the old have a sense of nourishment, the old have a sense of joy, the old have a sense of purpose.

Factual Arguments

Liu Heng, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, was a generous feudal emperor who brought prosperity to the society because of his policy of "resting with the people". This is known as the "Rule of Wenjing".

Liu Heng was also a filial monarch. His mother, Empress Dowager Bo, was sickly, and he often accompanied her on her deathbed after dealing with her busy political affairs. During the three years of her illness, Liu Heng often did not see eye to eye and did not leave his clothes on. The emperor had to taste all the medicines his mother took before letting the empress take them.

Commander Zhu's filial piety and respect for his parents

Commander Zhu De's filial piety and respect for his father's line is well known. When he was young and at home, he was very respectful of his parents old and obedient. The townspeople often praised him. He later became an officer in the army and sent remittances to his parents to fulfill his filial piety. After joining the revolution, he became a general order, commanding thousands of troops and horses to fight against the enemy, but he still missed his relatives in his hometown. When he got the news of his mother's death, very sad, wrote a touching "mother's memories" to send his mother's infinite thoughts.

Dedication of love for the elderly

Mr. and Mrs. Wang Zengwu, citizens of Xi'an, are childless and have many inconveniences in their old age. More than six hundred girls from the health school took turns to take the responsibility of caring for the old couple, and they were determined to treat them like their own parents and make them happy in their old age.

Not coincidentally, the Beijing Air Force Institute of Telecommunications Engineering, the seventh team of the seventh regiment group, the use of extracurricular time, volunteer to take care of Wang Chenghua elderly couple for 16 years.

Over the past 16 years, the seventh regimental group of trainees, although the change of a bitter and bitter, but for the elderly to dedicate the baton has been passed down: the old man lived in a leaky house, the trainees contributed money and effort to repair; the old man is lonely, the trainees assembled a TV and radio for them; the old man is sick, trainees to send a doctor, feed the medicine, end of the fecal matter, urine; to buy rice, coal, and water, and so on, all the work of the trainees to pack it down.

Theoretical Arguments

1. Woe to my parents, who have paid so much for my birth. [The Book of Songs - Xiao Ya - Polygonum]

2. Obey your father who bore you, and do not defy your mother when she is old. [Old Testament - Proverbs]

3. To get advice, you have to ask an old man. English Proverb

4. Whoever says that an inch of grass has a heart, rewards the three spring halos. Tang Meng Jiao, "The Song of the Wanderer"

5, "As we are old, so are we old; as we are young, so are we young". Mengzi - King Hui of Liang

6. Filial piety in the family is filial piety of the son, and Chin in the people is all Chin. Song - Lin Bu (林逋)《省心录》

7、The old man should speak first, and he who has a long life should teach by wisdom. Old Testament - The Book of Job

8. The death of an old man is equal to the burning of a library. Arab Proverb

9. Grass looks forward to the next year's hair, and old people rely on their children's support. Chinese Proverb

10: The old tree has many roots and beards, and the old man has a wide range of insights. Chinese Proverb

11: Raise a child to be old, and accumulate grain to prevent hunger. Chinese Proverbs

12, the honoring of the Ziangwei teaching, applying the filial piety and fraternal duty of righteousness, the award of the white people do not load on the road, seventy people clothes, silk and meat, the people are not hungry and not cold, and then not the king, not the son of a person, not there is also. Mengzi

-Liang Hui Wang on

13, parents, the basis of man. The Records of the Grand Historian (史记-屈原贾生列传)

14、不仁之至忽其亲。

15. The old have their own end, the strong have their own use, and the young have their own growth. The Book of Rites

16: The filial son's upbringing is also to be happy with his heart and not to disobey his will. According to the original intention of Confucius, cover the deep hope that after the children of the body, in order to help promote the teachings and thick customs. Qing Aixin

Jueluo Xuan Ye (Kangxi Emperor)

18, old age like youth as happy it! Youth, like the lark, has his morning song; old age, like the recognizing warbler, shall have his recognizing song. [German] Kant