Characteristics of China's Traditional Virtues

Characteristics of China's traditional virtues;

1, kindness and filial piety:

"Benevolence" can be said to be a symbol of the moral spirit of the Chinese nation. The core of the virtue of "benevolence" is love and filial piety. The basic content of filial piety is that mothers are kind and filial, and brothers and friends respect each other as guests, thus forming family affection. It plays an extremely important role in family relations and social stability and is the cornerstone of national unity. The expansion of filial piety is the so-called way of loyalty and forgiveness, from family affection to universal love.

2. Modesty and good gifts:

It is an important virtue of Chinese people all over the world to be courteous and honest. It is rooted in people's respect and humility, out of respect for superiors, moral standards and obedience to brothers and friends. The use of etiquette includes the virtue of modesty. "Modesty" is rooted in people's resignation. Its concentrated expression is humility in the face of honor and interests and mutual respect in interpersonal relationships. "Harmony" is embodied in kindness to others, harmonious interpersonal relationship, harmonious value orientation and neutrality as morality.

3. Be honest and know the news:

"Honesty" is true and naive. Its basic meaning is to be honest with yourself and your own nature. "Honesty" is not only the nature of heaven, but also the foundation of morality. Truth and innocence are heaven, and the pursuit of honesty is human. Based on "sincerity", China people have formed many related virtues, such as honesty, sincerity towards others and loyalty to their careers. "Faith" means keeping promises and keeping promises. "Newspaper" means gratitude, and China people emphasize gratitude to parents, elders, friends and the country.

4. Loyalty and patriotism:

Loving the motherland and the nation has always been regarded as a "big festival". Although it was associated with loyal monarch in feudal society and had the limitations of the times, it regarded monarch as the representative of the country in essence, and there was a deep national consciousness behind loyal monarch.

5. Self-denial:

"Self-denial" refers to self-restraint, self-transcendence and obedience to the whole. But the virtue of China people is not completely opposed to egoism, the key is whether it is moral or not. The spirit of self-denial and dedication to public service is essentially the spirit of putting public interests before private interests and personal interests obeying social public interests.