Traditional Chinese Family Ethics And Its Modern Transformation

"Family ethics " has the glorious historical tradition in our country. The Chinese tradition society is an agricultural society, with the family as the most important production and the expense operation unit, which has inevitably formed the characteristics.Of the Chinese social life, such as "family standard", "the family supreme". On the basis of the politics, economy and culture, which are derived from the Chinese traditional family ethics, the thesis has systematically elaborated the characteristics of the Chinese traditional family ethics. The Chinese traditional family ethics may briefly summarized as the following: the father and the children should jointly strive for proper family relationships, with the father as the sub-outline; brothers should commonly build a harmonious family, with the young respecting their elder brother; couples should be loyal to each other, with the husband as the wife's outline; every member of the family should take thrifty as an honor, and manage a household with diligence and thrift; all members should unit together as to build a prosperous country, with a good combination of family and country. After fully understanding the Chinese traditional family ethics, the thesis has summarized main characteristics of the Chinese traditional family ethics. Like any other traditional culture, there exists the historical limitation and the universality which has surpassed time. So, as for the traditional family ethics, we must inherit it critically and help it obtain the formidable vitality again in the realistic family life. The thesis has also summarized the positive factors of the spirits of the Chinese traditional family ethics, and proposed its modern transformation by combining with the characteristics of the time.At present stage, the structure of the Chinese family is changing day by day. Various family problems, contradictories and conflicts appear suddenly and unceasingly. The change from family standard to humanist standard, the change of people's understanding towards the marriage and the family, all sorts of modern value are attacking the traditional family ethics unceasingly. When we seek the resources of the Chinese traditional family ethics, suddenly we look back on and discovered that the Chinese tradition family ethics are still splendid, the fine humanities resources which think highly of human relations are still continuously and subtly playing an important role. In the high tech time people need more love from the family members. A harmonious family, keeping benevolent and courteous, filial to the parents, loyal to love, growing old together, showing affection and cooperation and so on will become the subject of the Chinese family. The standard of traditional family ethics still hold the extremely high practice value and still have an extremely vital universal significance now.