Moral Education And Its Value In Chinese Traditional Family Instruction

The traditional family motto is originated in ancient China,which took ethical standard as the mode of national governance,and its core essence is "cultivate one’s morality,regulate the family,govern the country and make the world peaceful".As an ethical culture centered on morality cultivation,traditional family motto abide by the basic principles of abiding by etiquette and law,living in harmony with the family,hating and loving,and nurturing in the family according to the particularity of the environment and the needs of family governance,and took them as the code of conduct and behavior to regulate the family members.The main contents of the traditional family motto include the personal morality which is determined to cultivate one’s morality and strive to learn to be rational;To rule the family by etiquette,the father is kind and filial,the brother being loving,the spouse being supposed to virtuous,the husband being righteous and the woman being obedient,the aid to the widows and orphans,and the neighbor is good,the royal under the strict family virtue;Words will be chosen,actions will be careful,good virtue,benevolence,careful friends,the end of the moral conduct of the world and when the occupation of diligence,when the occupation of morality.After enlightenment practice and experience of the past generations of ancestors,the cultivation and morality of enlightenment regarding to Chinese traditional family motto formed the main path of the formation of details of life,good family style,the influence of hall ancestral culture,etc.as well as example demonstration,emotional stimulation,reward and punishment,environmental fumigation and other practical methods.The traditional family instruction descendant in a special historical environment and existed in order to bring up the children and grandchildren.Its connotation,ways and means played a positive role for the Chinese family,society and country at that time.The main performance is to promote the family children to develop good moral character and create a good social atmosphere,further maintain social stability and promote the Confucian moral secularization and socialization.However,because of the particularity of the background of the Times,the traditional family motto also has certain historical limitation,and some even becomes the moral behavior norm which constrains the human nature and the social development.The main performance is that some family instruction requires the family members to abide by the feudal code and conduct the education of "enslavement",publicizing the philosophy of life and idealism,advocating male superiority and female inferiority,the feudal thought of three obedience and four virtues,etc.The rich thought contained in the cultivation and morality of enlightenment regarding to Chinese traditional family motto provides a valuable reference for the contemporary socialist moral construction,based on the reality of the contemporary moral construction,learning from the essence of the cultivation and morality of enlightenment regarding to Chinese traditional family motto in terms of contents and methods,which can provide theoretical guidance for the cultivation of the current New Comers in Modern Times,nourishing the contemporary family virtues,and provide valuable reference for the construction of the Party and government style in the new era.