Three-Fold Path of Cultivating the New Generation Based on Confucian Gentleman's Personality Concept
The Confucian gentleman's personality concept is ancient yet vibrant,enduring yet rejuvenating.The gentle-man embodies the unity of benevolence,wisdom,and courage,possessing the important quality of"not being a mere vessel"and pursuing the values of"cultivating oneself,managing one's family,governing the state,and bringing peace to the world".The ideal personality for contemporary Chinese people in this new era encompasses qualities such as morality,ideals,abilities,and responsibilities.It requires comprehensive development in ethics,intelligence,physicality aesthetics and labor skills while shouldering the great mission of national rejuvenation.The concept of Confucian gentleman's personality aligns perfectly with the cultivation of individuals in this new era in terms of concepts,goals,and content.Researching on how to cultivate contemporary individuals based on this concept through three aspects—"why","how",and"what"—is not only an inevitable requirement for revitalizing the concept of Confucian gentleman's personality in this new era and an innovative proposition within traditional cultural education field,but also a practical demand to create individuals who embody both gen-tleness and modernity by combining it with socialist practices with Chinese characteristics while fulfilling our mission for this era.
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