How do college students cultivate themselves in a civilized way?

1. 1 the traditional connotation of civilized accomplishment

China's traditional culture has always attached importance to the cultivation of personal morality and virtue. "University" said: "After knowing, knowing is sincere, honesty is correct, mind is correct, body is repaired, home is neat, home is governing, and country is peaceful." This progressive level from the individual to the country and the world is exactly the purpose that traditional intellectuals follow to realize their life ideals. As the "cultivation" of personal development, it is undoubtedly the starting point of this progressive level of "managing the family, governing the country and calming the world". What is "cultivation"? The "golden mean" in The Book of Rites simply quoted Confucius as saying: "Learning is close to knowing, doing is close to benevolence, knowing shame and then being brave, and knowing three things is self-cultivation." Translated into vernacular Chinese, it means "cultivation" includes three aspects: first, learning and storing knowledge; Second, we must practice and practice; Third, we must be ashamed and have a sense of honor and disgrace. Ancient people called knowledge reserve "knowing by doing", but the most taboo was "knowing" but not doing it, so they emphasized "doing". Knowing shame is an important part of personality cultivation for thinkers and educators in China. Confucius' famous saying "shame" is common in daily life, and Mencius regards "shame heart" as one of the four purposes of human beings.

University is an important stage in the formation of people's world outlook, outlook on life and values. Nowadays, the diversification and disorder of social values is a major problem we are facing. At present, most college students were born after 1995. They are active in thinking, quick in accepting new ideas and new things, and flexible. The values based on China's traditional culture are still applicable today. Taking its essence and combining with reality will undoubtedly provide a way of thinking for the value reconstruction of contemporary society.

2 Civilization cultivation under the current situation

In the new era, talents are required to have healthy psychology, sound personality and solid practical ability [1]. However, young intellectuals, mainly college students, are easily influenced by unhealthy social atmosphere and multicultural thoughts. Although they have high cultural knowledge and professional quality, their social practice ability and innovation ability are weak, their personal interests are heavy, their interpersonal relationship is indifferent, and some college students' values are imperfect and their integrity is lacking, which greatly damages their image.

In the new era and new situation, Hu Jintao's important exposition on "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" brilliantly expounds the basic content of the socialist concept of honor and disgrace, conforms to the connotation of "knowing shame" in China's traditional culture, is an organic combination of Chinese traditional virtues and the spirit of the new era, embodies the essential requirements of socialist basic moral norms and the clear orientation of socialist core values, and points out the direction for ideological and moral construction in colleges and universities, especially ideological and moral education for young people. Educator Ye Shengtao said: "What is education? Simply put, just one sentence is to develop good habits. " As a college student, if you want to become a talent, you must first develop good civilized habits, practice and "practice", which is the basis of success. Only by strengthening the study of cultural knowledge; Cultivation of civilized habits and manners; Modesty and courtesy, civilized manners, a sense of honor and disgrace, and comprehensive improvement of their own quality can show the elegance of contemporary college students and meet the standards of talents in the new era.

2 Research on the background and present situation of college students' civilized accomplishment