Self-cultivation refers to self-cultivation and efforts 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. The foundation of self-cultivation, family, country and world is the purpose. Therefore, through the method of "introspection", individual behavior is consistent with feudal morality, and talents are cultivated for the consolidation of its 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. Nourishing health terms. It refers to spiritual and emotional care and moral cultivation. See "Huai Nan Zi Zhen Xun": "Quiet and desert, so cultivate temperament." Taoism and Taoism advocate indifference and inaction and cultivate human nature. It is also another name for keeping in good health. For example, in case of emergency, volume 27: "Daolin repairs nature" is a special article on health care. Wu Ge 1: Exploring the Truth 2: Correcting People's Behavior and Managing Families. Language "Book of Rites University": "If you want to get together, cultivate yourself first." Li Yu's kite mistake and boudoir cajoling: "No family will be an official, just because there is Yan Kuan in love." The first chapter of Kang Youwei's Book of Great Harmony: "Isn't it strange that the husband forces different people to live together and make the family and the day harmonious?" The last article of the basic program of governing the country and leveling the world.

"Book of Rites University" has a cloud that "the ancient desire is obviously higher than the world, governing the country first; If you want to govern your country, get your family together first (6); If you want to keep your family together, you should take physical exercises first (7); If you want to cultivate yourself, you should be upright first; If you want to be correct, be sincere first; If you want to be sincere, let them know first (8); Know in the case (9). Things are known; Knowing it is sincere; Sincerity before righteousness; Put your mind right and practice again; After the body is repaired, the family is clean and tidy; Family harmony, and then national governance; After governing the country, the world is peaceful. " This is the origin of "leveling the world". It can generally be interpreted as "pacifying the world". Some people think that "leveling the world" means leveling the people all over the world so that they can live and work in peace and contentment, rather than leveling the world by force.