What are the "four virtues" of ancient women?

The so-called "four virtues" refers to: virtue, speech, appearance, work, that is to say, to be a woman, the first important thing is the moral character, can be upright to set up the foundation; and then "speech", to have knowledge of the cultivation of speech, speech is appropriate, the language is appropriate; followed by The second is "appearance", i.e., to point out that a woman should be dignified, steady and polite, not frivolous; and the last is "work", i.e., the way to rule a family, which includes the details of life such as teaching children to their husbands, respecting the elderly and loving the young, and being industrious and thrifty. （

Confucianism's Mencius put forward the "four virtues" of benevolence, righteousness, propriety and wisdom. "righteousness", "propriety", and "wisdom".

Yi family to Yuan, Heng, Li, Ching for the four virtues.

Confucianism takes filial piety, fraternal duty, loyalty, and faith as the four virtues, referring to the four virtues of placing goodness, serving one's elders, establishing love, and bonding with the old.

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Three From Four Virtues

Three From Four Virtues is one of the ancient Chinese customs. The "three from" refers to a woman's father when she is not married, her husband when she is married, and her son when her husband dies; the "four virtues" refers to a woman's virtue, her speech, her appearance, and her work.

The word "obey" here does not mean "to obey" or "to follow" on the surface, but rather "to assist" or "to aid". In other words, when they are not married, they listen to their parents' (father's) teachings; after they are married, they assist their husbands in their family's practice; when their husbands are no longer with them, they raise and educate their children to adulthood; and they guide and respect their children's concepts of living correctly.

"The Three Obediences and Four Virtues" is an ancient Chinese female moral code, based on the principle of "the distinction between inside and outside (i.e., the social division of labor between men and women)," and the Confucian rituals of the life of a woman in the morality, behavior, and cultivation of the normative requirements.

The New Three Obedience and Four Virtues

The New Three Obedience and Four Virtues are some of the guiding principles of women's life based on the progress of the times.

Specific content:

1, the new three from: from the world, from love, from oneself.

(1) From the world, that is, from the macro perspective of the development of the whole situation, with the rapid development of the economy, all kinds of competition has become extremely fierce, women should learn to look farther than the frog in the bottom of the well.

(2) From love, learn to use love to resolve all kinds of conflicts in the family, work, social.

(3) from their own, people have to know themselves, to avoid their own shortcomings, to promote their own strengths, in order to accurately position their own life coordinates.

2, the new four virtues: WenDeWuDe, YinXianShuDe, character learning and virtue, cultivation and virtue.

(1) Wen De Wu De, means that in order to adapt to the increasing social competition, although not so much as to be proficient in all kinds of music, chess and calligraphy, but to be knowledgeable and cultivate expertise.

(2) Wenshun Shude, on the other hand, refers to thinking from others' perspectives in all matters, speaking wisely, and impressing the hearts of the people with feminine and gentle words.

(3) character and virtue, of course, means to have a good character, so as to increase and consolidate their own relationships, but also in taste to add their own charm, continuous learning, the pursuit of progress, in order to become more and more beautiful.

(4) Cultivation of virtue is to explore and make good use of women's delicate and gentle qualities, to show self-confidence in the face of work, to show elegance in the face of life, and to show virtue in the face of family.