A Research On The Value Of Thought Of Housheng In Contemporary Ideological And Political Education

Housheng, which recorded in Chinese classical literature The Book Of History-The Counsels Of The Great Yu means, meant letting people’s livings be well-off in the past. Ancient wise men in pre-Qin period considered that common people are the foundation of the state, whether in the aspect of legislation or national governance, sovereigns must put common people in an important position, though the ultimate aim was consolidated power. The thought of Housheng, as a part of the traditional culture, reveals the internal criterion and value proposition of human’s basic survival and universal development, and has been inherited critically by personages with breadth vision for centuries. Nowadays, the thought of Housheng is integrated into education, administration, and some other fields, with social progress and broadening of thoughts gradually. The ideological and political education is the important way of human spirits. It shows kinds of communications between human beings and nature, society and ego, etc. CCP and state leaders attach great importance to ideological and political education that make human spirits’ life adapts to objective world, that prompt to introspect and modify the relation between human’s life and spirit world endlessly, that let people gain significance of living and developing on the balance of sense and sensibility. Our leaders point out emphatically to inherit and carry forward splendid Chinese traditional culture, assimilate and utilize preeminent foreign culture actively to serve contemporary ideological and political education when they tell about strengthening and improving the Party’s ideological and political work. People emphasized that virtue drived the development of wisdom in Chinese traditional culture that contained various educational resource and unique function of educating people.It is rather a important ting that we should exert the educational function of the thought of Housheng which is as a significant element of ideological and political education. People foremost, foundation of a harmonious society, and realization of China Dream, which have been focused and researched by scholars, are people’s common appeals. In the essay, we expect to interpret the connotation of Housheng, analyze its source, development, and main content, at last, find the combination between the thought of Housheng and ideological and political education. Researching the thought of Housheng under the vision of ideological and political education, the effective resource will be distilled from educational ideas, contents, methods, etc., by the way of interdiscipline(ideological and political education combined with other subjects), and the basic of thought of humanity could be tamped down for ideological and political education through describing the value of Housheng in contemporary ideological and political education. Meanwhile, the thought of Housheng, which is the expression of China’s kind character, and the source of human’s spirit in global era when solving the crisis, has practical value for improving civics’ s qualities.