CHANGES AND CONTEMPORARY WISDOM OF ROLE MODEL CULTURE IN ANCIENT CHINA
CHANGES AND CONTEMPORARY WISDOM OF ROLE MODEL CULTURE IN ANCIENT CHINA

Summary/Abstract: In the ancient Chinese society of political ethics, role models, as an important carrier of moral education in ancient China, were respected by successive rulers because of their vivid and intuitive image, their value of guiding the people into a common practice, and their power of indoctrination. In the top-down active promotion, upward and downward effect of the dissemination of practice, and gradually formed a unique Chinese characteristics of the role model culture. The ancient Chinese role model culture has a long history, whilst containing a rich ideological and practical system: that is, what a role model is, what a role model is for, what a role model can do and what is the use of the role models. With the help of deities, bright kings, saints and other role models, the role model culture realizes the function of correcting people’s hearts and beautifying customs; relying on official indoctrination and spontaneous learning of civil organizations, it penetrates deeply into the levels of political governance, family education, school education, as well as personal cultivation, and spreads to the fields of politics, economy, society and culture, so as to realize the function of penetrating and regulating through imperceptible influence and, finally, forms the network system of role model indoctrination practice combining central government and local government.

• Details
• Contents