Why is repaying kindness with kindness not a characteristic of traditional Chinese culture?

The basic characteristics of traditional Chinese culture: simply put, it is state-oriented, patriarchal consciousness, hierarchical concepts, and ritualism.

Ancient Chinese philosophical system, the core of which is the doctrine of ethics and morality, whose cosmic essence is the metaphysical entity of ethics and morality, and whose philosophical rationality is the practical rationality of moralization.

Chinese culture places great emphasis on "punishing evil and promoting goodness" and the role of education. For example, ancient Chinese literature has always emphasized that "literature is the way of the road", attaches great importance to the edifying role of literature, and advocates the combination of beauty and goodness.

Ancient Chinese culture attached special importance to the propaganda of "loyalty" and "filial piety" concept. The patriarchal and authoritarian ancient Chinese society regarded the world (the state) as one big family, and the feudal state's system of government was established according to the model of patriarchal paternalism, with the monarch being the "strict father" of the nation.

The basic characteristics of traditional Chinese culture are: ethnicity, agrarianism, continuity, inheritance, significant ethical characteristics, and unique values and values.

Chinese people have long been aware of cultural types, and ancient people have already compared the Chinese farming culture of the Central Plains with the nomadic or fishing and hunting cultures of the four neighboring barbarians.

Traditional Chinese culture has a long and profound history, which refers to the social and cultural system based on individual agricultural economy, patriarchal family as the background, and Confucian ethics and morality as the core in Chinese history. She is a rich heritage handed down by our ancestors and was once a world leader for a long time. The way of thinking, values, and codes of behavior she embodies. On the one hand, she has a strong history and heredity; on the other hand, she has a vivid reality and variability. She is influencing today's Chinese people all the time, providing us with a historical basis and a realistic foundation for the creation of a new culture.

The most important feature of traditional Chinese culture is that its dominant position has long been occupied by the values of Confucian ethical culture. For five thousand years, from the primitive peoples of China down to modern society, Confucian ethical culture has been the core of Chinese culture and still influences the way the Chinese people think and act. In addition to this, we can also recognize it from the following characteristics:

First of all, traditional Chinese culture is the product of the natural economy, which is dominated by agriculture, under the conditions of closed ecological environment. Is the Han as the main body, the integration of the wisdom of the people of all races, *** with the creation of this particular region of a specific circle of humanity, the social and spiritual form, with a strong ethnicity.

Secondly, traditional Chinese culture is a complete and huge system formed over five thousand years, from philosophical ideas, ways of thinking to psychological tendencies, penetrating into all aspects of social life, very rich, with the integrity of the content.

Thirdly, as a cultural tradition, the transmission of generations continues, and will continue to be passed on, whether it is a natural inheritance, or the choice of inheritance, with the passage of time, never stop. The inheritance of education belongs to the selection of inheritance, that is, to pass on the excellent part. Therefore, it has a permanent inheritance.

Fourth, traditional culture belongs to the old times and is subject to the limitations of the times, and is always divided into two, in which the essence and the dregs coexist, and the nutrients and the toxins are present. There are positive positive effects on education and negative negative effects, with the duality of influence.