If you lose money, you are not a loser, because the value of life is not in the purse.
If you lose civilization, you are a complete failure, because you have lost the true meaning of being a man.
Civilization covers the relationship between people, people and society, and people and nature. Its main functions are: first, to pursue the perfection of personal morality; Second, safeguard public interests and public order.
Speaking of the virtues of civilization, I thought of a story. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, there was a man named Ji Bu. He kept his word and had a very high reputation. Many people have established a strong friendship with him. At that time, there was even a proverb: "It is better to get a hundred pounds of gold than to keep a promise." (This is the origin of the idiom "A promise is as good as a gold") Later, he offended Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu, and was offered a reward for his capture. As a result, his old friends not only were not confused by the heavy money, but also risked the extinction of Jiuzu to protect him from disaster. A person who is honest and trustworthy will naturally get a lot of help and gain everyone's respect and friendship. On the other hand, if you covet temporary comfort or petty advantages and lose trust in your friends, you will get "benefits" on the surface. But for this benefit, he ruined his reputation, which is much more important than material things. Therefore, breaking a promise to a friend is tantamount to losing a watermelon and picking up sesame seeds, which is not worth the loss.
I think honesty is the greatest virtue. The word honesty is both strange and familiar to people. Many years ago, our teachers and parents taught us to learn to be honest. As time goes by, more and more dishonest enterprises appear, including fake cigarettes, fake wine and fake drugs. "Honesty" is the foundation of a person's life, just like Lu Bu's "keeping a promise and keeping a promise".
The civilization degree of a society can reflect the civilization degree of a society and a country. A person's failure to observe social civilization will have a small impact on his own image and a big impact on the national reputation. During the Qing Dynasty, Minister Li Hongzhang went to Russia. In public, he had a bad habit of spitting everywhere, which was greatly exaggerated and ridiculed by foreign journalists and humiliated China people. This is a historical lesson of not obeying social civilization.
Public civilization is the embodiment of social consciousness, and public civilization is based on the level of personal moral cultivation. Imagine, if a person does not pay attention to his own civilization, will he have a good civilization? Don't! Personal civilization etiquette is the root and foundation. If people want to have a good civilization, they must start from themselves and start from the side. Therefore, Mr. Lu Xun said: "If China wants to survive and compete in the world, its first thing is to establish people, and then people will do everything." "Educating people" means improving people's thinking and civilization. Man's civilization is not innate, but constantly improved the day after tomorrow. To improve one's self-cultivation, one must first concentrate on studying and improve one's cognitive level; When cognition reaches a certain level, there is the ability to distinguish right from wrong; With the ability to distinguish right from wrong, good and evil, we must correct our mentality, not violate our conscience, and strive to make our words and deeds conform to moral standards, so that our self-cultivation will be improved. This is what the ancients said: being realistic, knowledgeable, sincere, upright and self-cultivation. Only by perfecting personal moral cultivation can there be a basis for promoting social civilization.
The civilized atmosphere of a society also has a great influence on its people. Why do you say that? I believe that some students have been to Europe or Japan and have personal experience. Not to mention the big ones, I have seen such a small thing as the road. As long as the red light is on, foreigners will never cross the road even if there are no cars on the road. They think this is a public civilization that must be observed. Excuse me, in such an atmosphere, who will run a red light unscrupulously? This is the power of social atmosphere. But think again, if we don't start from ourselves, where does this social atmosphere come from?
We have been educated in civilized manners since childhood, and many students can talk about civilized manners at length. However, seeing lunch boxes and beverage bottles discarded everywhere on campus and hearing some students' swearing words, how can we not teach people grief! Are we all "giants of language and dwarfs of action"? Wang Shouren, a great scholar in the Ming Dynasty, said: "Knowing is the idea of doing, and doing is the kung fu of knowing; Knowing is the beginning of doing, and doing is the achievement of knowing; Knowing and doing is noumenon and kung fu. Knowing and not doing it is just unknown. " We receive the education of civilization and etiquette, but we are stingy with it or even do the opposite, which is different from never receiving social education! Therefore, if we want to practice social civilization, we must work hard from this "unity of knowing and doing", work hard from our own words, and bid farewell to uncivilized behavior.
The road ahead has been paved for us, and the next step is for us to persevere. Let our campus bloom beautifully from now on, let our society produce spark civilization, and let civilization and virtue go hand in hand.