The First Exploration of Connotation of the Chinese Chivalrous Personality in Chinese Culture Background and its Contemporary Practical Significance
The Chinese chivalrous personality is one of the Chinese traditional cultural personality which was born in the Chinese chival-rous culture and deeply influenced by it and other ideological schools.It contains the content of xia(Chinese knight-errant)'s con-cept of human nature,values and attitudes,moral code,behavior characteristics and so on.It was integrational,came from critical inher-itance and has epochal character.Through summarizing,Sorting and extracting from the text content of the representative ancient histori-cal records,modern research works and literary works about xia,six fundamental connotations of the Chinese chivalrous personality are preliminarily obtained:Justice & Principle,Generosity & Helping,Courage & Adventurous,Freedom & Rebellion,Indulgence & Hedon-ism,and Valuing reputation & Competitiveness.In today's society,the Chinese chivalrous personality has its unique value and signifi-cance in promoting self-actualization and humanity liberation,stimulating traditional cultural confidence and influencing rule of law and social moral construction.It is the main way to guide and carry forward the Chinese chivalrous culture and chivalrous personality in a reasonable way to combine the Chinese chivalrous culture and confucian culture,and integrate it into hero culture.
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