Governing The People By Means Of Virtue And Control Them With Propriety

Along with the several thousand years of absolutist system's disappearance of the feudalism monarch in China,especially with the abrogation of the late Qing Dynasty civil service exam system, the Chinese traditional ethics based on Confucian ethics lost predominance, even came to a decline. In the modern age several cultural revolutions also gave the traditional ethics one heavy blow after another,which make them lose its former brilliance.However, the influence of the tradional ethics are still in exsistence in our society, and it has very great influence on each realm,especially when there appear the moral slippery in the modern society.The phenomenon has aroused a lot of discussion.More and more scholars try to find out cures from the Chinese traditional ethics to change the present condition .The excellent traditional ethics in China handed down for several thousand year have constituted the Chinese civilization, not only influence the Chinese literary circles ,but also greatly influences the whole world. It spreads to everyone and make people generally accept moral preachment. The thought of the inside vitality factor takes Confucian ethics as the core of traditional ethics and support the feudal dynasties in the rules to govern outside, turning Confucius sage, Confucian class, and make it the only official consciousness, which is the tradition that comes from the ethics systemization directly; in the meantime various concrete systems, such as political law system, ancient clan system, the examination system, place management system, education system, civil service exam, marriage system, etc. have played an important role in the maintenance of the traditional ethics. This is the guarantee to the traditional ethics by compulsive measures. Moreover, traditional ethics still depends on the concept of value, domestic discipline, clan rules, regulations, ethics norm, moral concept, customs and habits, etc., which belongs to incompulsory system that can provide this kind of guarantee. The traditional ethics have handed down through ethics preachment and system guarantee for several thousand years. Although the turn of dynasties had caused the kind of inconsistency, each one of them carried out new systems to guarantee traditional ethics. By doing so, they found some effective mesures to inherit the traditional ethics, like trustworthinesses, faiths, filial pieties, gifts, virtues, industry and thrift and generous etc. Which provide very useful references for modern society which is just poor in such aspects.