Civilian Ethics Guide

Author: Hao Jingquan
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: China has a history of 5,000 years of civilization. It is "a land with a long history, a large population, vast territory, and abundant resources." China boasts the strength and prosperity of a great nation and is renowned as a "country of etiquette." Thousands of years of civilized history have endowed the Chinese nation with many excellent traditional virtues: benevolence, filial piety, humility, politeness, integrity, gratitude, loyalty to the motherland, self-restraint, serving the public, self-discipline, self-sacrifice, diligence, frugality, pragmatism, magnanimity, and emphasis on integrity, among others. These virtues have allowed the Chinese nation to thrive and endure, and they have made the Chinese people upright and resilient. These virtues are a precious spiritual wealth for all of humanity and serve as the guiding principles for how to live.