People can't live without courtesy, people can't succeed without courtesy, and the country can't be at peace without courtesy.

This sentence comes from Xunzi's "Cultivation"

The level of goodness is the rule of qi and health after Peng Zu, and the self-cultivation after Yao and Yu is equally famous. We should keep pace with the times, help the poor and be polite and trustworthy. Where blood, will and care are used, it will be cured with ceremony, and it will be chaotic if it is not used; Eat, drink, wear, live and move, from ceremony to festival, if you don't obey the ceremony, you will get sick; Appearance, attitude, advance and retreat, tendency, courtesy is elegant, rudeness is conservative, unconventional and mediocre. If an old friend is rude, there will be no life, if something is rude, there will be nothing, and if the country is rude, it will be uneasy. "Poetry" says: "Courtesy is measured, and laughter pays off." This is also called.

Introduction:

Self-cultivation means self-cultivation and striving to improve one's ideological and moral cultivation. Taoism, Confucianism and Mohism all emphasize self-cultivation, but their contents are different. Since Confucius, Confucianism has attached great importance to self-cultivation and regarded it as one of the eight purposes of education. The Confucian standard of "self-cultivation" is mainly the principle of loyalty and forgiveness and the three cardinal principles and five permanents, which is essentially an idealistic method of self-cultivation divorced from social practice. They believe that the process of self-cultivation is: respecting things, knowing and doing, being sincere and being upright. Self-cultivation is the foundation, and family, country and the world are the goals. Therefore, through the method of "introspection", individual behavior is consistent with feudal morality, and talents are cultivated for the consolidation of feudal rule and political power. Taoist self-cultivation requires conforming to nature; Mozi called for "unity of ambition and merit" to promote the benefits and eliminate the evils and level the world.

Author:

Xunzi (about 365438 BC+03-238 BC), Ming Qing, Han nationality. It is also called "Xun" because it is taboo to announce the Emperor in the Western Han Dynasty, and because the two words "Xun" and "Sun" are homonyms. During the Warring States Period on weekends, Zhao people. A famous thinker, writer, politician and one of the representatives of Confucianism, he is known as "Xun Qing". He went to Gong Xue, Xia Ji, the State of Qi for three times, and was later ordered by Lan Ling of Chu (now Lan Ling of Shandong). Xunzi developed Confucianism and advocated the theory of evil nature, which is often compared with Mencius' theory of good nature. It has also made considerable contributions to the collation of Confucian classics.