On The Spirit Of Mencius's Independent Personality Y

Independent personality is the personality which the individual dare to defy external authority and express himself in all social relations and their own experiences. He/She can despise reputation, status, money. And also he/she can exceed life and death, poor and rich. But Chinese traditional culture has always been criticized because of lacking of independent personality. But I believe that this view is biased. In the Warring States Period, Mencius demonstrated a strong and prominent independence spirit in his extraordinary experience of traveling around. When facing the king, he dared to defy the king. He was upright and respect. He determined to defend his independence and human dignity by his indomitable tolerance.Although Mencius advocated the theory of fate which believes a man's fate was given by the Heaven, he also affirmed the people's initiative. He advocates overcoming the constraints of objective conditions by the power of people himself. And it creates the conditions for him to overcome the difficulties and setbacks and finally complete the mission of a Confucian.Mencius'independence spirit is based on the "Goodness of Nature". He believed that each person's nature and personality are all equal and independent and will not be different because of external factors such as political status, wealth, and living area. So, not only can everyone have an independent personality, but also can achieve the lofty realm of sages Yao and Shun through the painstaking cultivation。This kind of thought laid a theoretical foundation for Mencius to disdain for kings and maintain his independence and dignity of the personalityHowever, independent personality cannot be form in a short time. It needs a long time and worked tirelessly. Mencius believes that the formation of an independent personality needs self-cultivation. By cultivating, we can realize a person's good nature. Then he can resist the external adverse environmental impact. The "Cultivating the moral spirit" can raise the pursuit of positive life and cultivate personal independence character. Mencius'independent personality has a good effect on shaping the character of the Chinese nation unyielding national psychology, training Chinese people's uprightness and forming perfect culture of personality psychologyWe use the independence spirit of Mencius as the essence of Chinese thinking and culture. It has a bad effect on the later development, and also on the modern development. In modern society, the spiritual world, independent personality, entrepreneurial spirit of people are destructed and corroded by various negative factors. And they have bad quality of life. Mencius independent personality has extremely important for the modern people to reconstruct their Spiritual world. It also trains the positive enterprising spirit of modern people and improves their personality traits.