Chinese traditional virtues are expressed in twelve words: benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faithfulness, loyalty, filial piety, chastity, forgiveness, courage and concession.
Benevolent people love others, which is also the theoretical core of Confucius' thought, the highest standard of Confucius' social and political ethics, and embodies Confucius' philosophical views. Righteousness originally means "righteousness", and Confucius used "righteousness" to judge everyone's ideological and moral behavior norms.
Rite refers to the political and ethical category of Confucius, which plays an important role in the spiritual cultivation of the Chinese nation, mainly as the moral norms and norms of feudal society. Wisdom, like knowledge, is also the basic category of controlling epistemology and ethics, mainly to understand the nature and source of knowledge, as well as its content and effect.
Faith means keeping your word, that is, people's honesty and consistency between words and deeds. It is one of the five permanent members of Confucianism. Loyalty is what Confucius thought was loyalty and honesty in interpersonal communication. Filial piety is filial piety, but on the one hand there is respect for elders and parents. Here, I mean having love for my brother, which is very important. Festival mainly refers to moral integrity and moral integrity.
Forgiveness is an ancient ethical concept in China, which mainly includes the idea of not doing to others what you don't want others to do to you. If you don't want to do it, don't impose it on others. Courage here refers to courage and decisiveness. Be brave when something happens. Concession mainly refers to humility and comity, which is also one of the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation.
The traditional virtues of the Chinese nation refer to the outstanding moral heritage handed down from China's 5,000-year history, which is influential, can be inherited and continuously innovated and developed, and is beneficial to the next generation. To sum up, it is the sum of the excellent quality, excellent national spirit, lofty national integrity, noble national feelings and good national habits of the Chinese nation. It marks the "shape" and "soul" of the Chinese nation. It is also the crystallization of China people's practice in dealing with interpersonal relationships, the relationship between people and society, and the relationship between people and nature for more than 2,000 years.