1. The meaning of personal morality: Personal morality is a stable psychological state and behavior habit formed through personal conscious moral cultivation and social moral education. It is manifested in the individual's strong recognition of certain moral requirements, the full expression of moral feelings and the persistent practice of social moral norms.

2. Characteristics of personal morality: 1. Practicality. Second, comprehensiveness. Third, stability.

3. Functions and functions of personal morality: In real life, the functions and functions of personal morality are mainly reflected in two aspects. First of all, personal morality plays an important role in promoting the development and reform of social morality. Secondly, personal morality is the internal basis for individuals to achieve self-improvement.

4. Ways to temper personal character:

(1) To temper personal morality, we must first strengthen the consciousness of personal moral cultivation. In terms of moral consciousness and behavior, the activities of self-examination, self-education, self-exercise, self-transformation and self-improvement that individuals consciously carry out according to the moral requirements of a certain society or class are called moral cultivation.

A high degree of consciousness is an inherent requirement and an important feature of moral cultivation. College students should strive to improve their consciousness of moral cultivation according to the following requirements: first, they should have a strong motivation to carry out moral cultivation, so that they can study, think and experience enthusiastically and voluntarily, thus enhancing the realm of moral cultivation; Secondly, we should actively carry out self-education, self-discipline, self-motivation, persevere, down-to-earth, and persevere in moral cultivation; Finally, we should correctly understand and evaluate ourselves, carry forward our achievements and overcome our shortcomings.

(2) To strengthen moral cultivation, we should also learn from all kinds of positive and effective moral cultivation methods put forward by thinkers in history, and take some effective methods to avoid moral cultivation in combination with the needs of today's social development and the practical experience of contemporary people's moral cultivation. First, the method of paying equal attention to learning and thinking, that is, by learning with an open mind, being good at thinking, distinguishing good from evil, learning good and abstaining from evil, in order to cultivate good morality; Secondly, the way to check and treat diseases is to discover and discover the bad tendencies and thoughts in one's own thoughts and behaviors through introspection, and to suppress and overcome them in time; Third, the method of self-discipline, that is, in the absence of anyone knowing or external supervision, adhere to their own moral beliefs, consciously act in accordance with moral requirements, and not act rashly because of unsupervised; Fourth, the method of accumulating goodness into virtue is to consolidate and strengthen through accumulating goodness or virtue, thus gradually condensing into excellent morality; Fifth, the method of combining knowledge with practice is to unify the improvement of moral consciousness with the practice of moral practice, so as to promote the internalization of moral requirements into personal moral quality and externalization into actual moral behavior.