What is the function of the ancient thought of loyalty and filial piety?

Loyalty, loyalty and forgiveness. Loyalty is an excellent moral character advocated by China traditional culture. When it comes to loyalty, people often think of "foolish loyalty", which is actually a misunderstanding. In Confucius' view, it is not only a question of loyalty to the monarch, but also a question of loyalty to ordinary people and everyone. In the era of Confucius, "Jun" was not unusual, and there were large and small "Jun" everywhere. In fact, Confucius was very opposed to foolish loyalty, and only by being right can he be loyal. In the traditional culture of China, "loyalty" refers to the monarch and the people: "thinking about the people and being loyal." Loyalty means seeking goodness from the heart and doing one's duty from the outside. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has a fine tradition of serving the country faithfully and sacrificing one's life for righteousness. "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world" is the common wish of people with lofty ideals throughout the ages. Loyalty to the cause, the motherland and the people is the highest and most sacred value pursuit of the Chinese nation.

"filial piety":

Filial piety, filial piety, filial piety. The Chinese nation advocates the concept of ancestral industry. Mainly "filial piety" to parents and elders, emphasizing order. Confucius started private schools and put "filial piety" in the first place in teaching, believing that "filial piety" is the basis of morality. "Filial piety is the foundation of virtue" and "Filial piety ranks first among all virtues". People often associate "filial piety" with "serving the motherland", thinking that "loyalty and filial piety cannot have both" and even belittle "filial piety". This is a misunderstanding. In fact, "filial piety to parents" and "serving the motherland" are glorious. The two can and should be unified. You can have both loyalty and filial piety. Some individuals are restricted by conditions and cannot be unified, but they cannot be generalized. We should try our best to be consistent with the two, so as to fulfill the loyalty of "serving the motherland" and the filial piety of "honoring parents". This is an eternal traditional virtue of the Chinese nation.

Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, loyalty, courtesy and wisdom.

What are loyalty, filial piety and benevolence? What are faith, courtesy, wisdom and courage? Now you can only see them by looking at the street signs in Taipei. The anecdote sequence maintained by the way of "monarch, minister, father, son and son" will not come back, and it will also cut off our connection with "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness" "Faith, courtesy, wisdom and courage" is still a universal philosophy of existence and the basic requirement of all societies, but we have grafted the western values, and under the shell of Confucian discourse, the connotation is no longer.

The ancients once regarded moral cultivation as the ultimate pursuit of life. However, in today's globalization, personal struggle, happiness and freedom are more important than morality. Children nowadays have many other things to do.

The original text is from New Weekly.

How much is left of our traditional culture and lifestyle?

Isn't it a little late for children in the 1990s to get in touch with the beauty of classical poetry from Jay Chou's Direct Answer? "Why did Kong Rong let pears?" Ren Xia, what else? What are loyalty, filial piety and benevolence? What are faith, courtesy, wisdom and courage? Why today's doctoral students in ancient literature are not 15-year-old scholars "well informed" ... how to explain these doubts and where can we find our lost tradition?

10 February 10, Liang Qichao wrote his masterpiece young chinese, which inspired a generation of China people. "Young people are strong, and the country is rich and the people are strong." Today, the temperament that Liang Qichao once hoped for in his boyhood is hope, enterprising, innovative, unconventional, playful, ambitious, heroic and creating the world. "Always thinking about the future" and "always feeling that anything is possible" are faintly visible in this generation. But at the cost, the China tradition on them is getting thinner and thinner, their characteristics and individuals no longer exist, and the taste of China is also weak. Where can we find our lost traditions? How can we write a "new young China people", not just "youth globalization"?

The Four Books and the Five Classics

Once upon a time, as a scholar before the age of 15, he had to learn the four books and five classics by heart, almost all of them were "worshipping classics". Their understanding of classics is enough to make today's doctoral students in ancient literature desperate. 191265438+1October19 when the first minister of education of the national government ordered that "reading classics should be abolished in primary schools", it was a feat of emancipating the mind; As a result, nearly a century has passed, and not many people can answer what the Four Books and Five Classics are. Children are interested in the Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius. China's ancient pillar ideological system, represented by The Book of Changes, Shangshu, The Book of Songs, The Book of Rites and Zuo Zhuan, is in confusion. Now, Yi Shu has established a modern private school in Beijing, which specializes in teaching the Four Books and Five Classics.

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What is Ren Xia? It is where the Tao lies, although thousands of people have gone; When the righteous act is done, the daughter will not regret it; In the heart of love, secular etiquette is like dirt; Where is Xing? Drink 300 cups with Jun "; It is "ten steps to kill one person, thousands of miles away." Say that finish, brushed off clothes, don't show a sound, hidden. Three cups of spit, five mountains are light. Even if you die, you won't be ashamed of the world. "Jing Ke, Nie Zheng, Zhuan Xu and Li Bai are the floating mothers who benefited from a meal and the fishermen who saved Wu Zixu. Today, however, they are all dissipated in the wind. There are no more men who walk alone in Wan Li and make promises to their friends, and no more women who "struggle all their lives and enjoy your life today". Gao wrote so lightly in his book "Youth Without Regret".

I was taught from an early age to be wise and not to trust others. How can we be proud and heroic? Where did it come from? I have never been young and frivolous. Youth is incomplete youth, and it is useless to read more Jin's novels.

Photographer Gangasso Rambabu

Responsible for the family, the people, the country, the nation, and the intangible social atmosphere ... This is the N mountains on the shoulders of the ancients. Today, we have neither the obligation to contribute to others nor the right to ask for it from others. We can only be responsible for ourselves. The "ancient desire is obviously superior to the world" mentioned at the beginning of "University" has become a mirage today, and Gu's "every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the country" is more like an empty talk in peacetime. So we insist on not growing up, watching Japanese comics, listening to twins, playing with pupae or Hello Kitty, wearing wide-leg pants, and our pockets are full of slogans, "I like it, why not" ... Aggressive freedom is rampant, and the sense of responsibility is falling everywhere. 10 children are exposed to this generation's laissez-faire and infinitely prolonged adolescence. How do they know what a sense of responsibility is?

Poetry, Music and Fu

Isn't it a little late for children in the 1990s to get in touch with the beauty of classical poetry from Jay Chou's Direct Answer? There are 42,863 poems in Tang Dynasty, 19990 poems in Song Dynasty, more than 900 poems by Li Bai and more than 6,000 poems by Lu You, which are just a fraction of China's poems. However, until we graduated from middle school, what we were carrying was just such small feelings as "Xiao He just showed its horns" and "February spring breeze is like scissors". How can we love our vast sea of poetry?

It is not that classical poetry should be widely used, but that it has retreated and disappeared from our field of vision in a large span, which is the loss of aesthetic ability of this society. A child nourished by such romantic feelings as "wading for hibiscus", "wandering in the courtyard" and "watching the sword after drinking" may not be so numb and indifferent when he grows up.

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Nowadays, the image of promising young people is that they are young, rich, highly educated, well-paid and expensive. He knows how to make money and how to spend it. He is no longer the good son who is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting in Nalan Rong Ruo. The value orientation of adults is copied or even strengthened in the next generation. Learning piano (referring to piano instead of guzheng) must be graded. Unless you want to be a national player like Chang Hao, calligraphy and painting is a regular item in the Children's Palace. In order to get extra points when entering a higher school ... The original elegance has been distorted under the pressure of parents' feather dusters and grading examinations, and it can no longer maintain a beautiful appearance.

Kong Rong gave up the biggest pear.

"Why did Kong Rong let pears?" "Because big pears are not good." Kong Rong, who is old-fashioned, will jump into the coffin with anger if she hears the children's answers now. Yes, the traditional moral paradigm is losing. Children in the 1990s were taught that people who don't work can't eat. They have been competing almost since they were sensible. They are born Darwinists. Children in Grade Three have 40 classes a week and practice piano for 3 hours every day. Children in grade six do their homework until midnight 12 every day. The second-grade children will take part in math contest, English speech contest and student union election after class ... How can he say: classmate, I don't want the first place, let you have it?

No one will thank Kong Rong. However, when the whole society began to agree with the values of industrial civilization, such as "modesty makes people lag behind", the once gentle personality charm of China ancients was lost.

imperial examination system

In the third year of the great cause of the Sui Dynasty (607), the Millennium cold door jumped into Longmen through the imperial examination. From "after having obtained the provincial examination" to "palace examination", the imperial examination once every three years makes you a hero in the world. 1300 years later, abolishing the imperial examination and promoting learning became an inevitable trend of historical development. The western education system has entered the classroom. Private schools have become old and dusty with history, and science has become a new favorite.

Although private schools exist sporadically as news today, we can no longer hear children's endorsements. Under today's value orientation, children are not interested in things that have no practical function.

folk custom

Touching doornails and setting off firecrackers in the New Year, eating glutinous rice balls and putting lanterns and dancing yangko in Shangyuan, holding moxa sticks and hanging incense symbols for dragon boat races in the Dragon Boat Festival, and driving firecrackers in the Central Plains ... With the total ban on setting off firecrackers in big cities, these festivals are gradually drifting away from us, and the intangible interests of children are gradually diluted. How many children still know Gone with the Wind? How many children still know about Tiger?

People born in the 1990s began to believe in Santa Claus and celebrate their birthdays at McDonald's Pizza Hut. They don't know Ah Fu, they haven't let go of kites, they haven't seen longevity locks, they haven't been to the square table, and they haven't climbed the big threshold. So traditional things are dull and pale in their eyes.