Today, our understanding of the word "virtue" has evolved into morality and character, morality, civility, politeness, and etiquette are "virtue", and this understanding is the weakening of the word "virtue". Evaluate the quality of a person's moral level, this evaluation is only carried out at the level of character, in fact, the word "virtue" is more important refers to behavior, and virtuous behavior is the real "virtue". Why?
At night, when we look up at the starry sky, we can feel that each star is independent and has its own path, that is, its orbit. The rising and setting of the sun brings us light, and the rising and setting of the moon brings us the light of the night to guide us in the direction of our walking.
The path of these suns, moons and stars in the sky is the path they originally took, and by extension, it is the nature and heart of man. In life, when we see certain things, we will reveal our true nature and heart, and we will empathize with sadness or joy, so the word "de" in the oracle bone inscription we see is a person standing at the center of the road and observing the operation of the seven yao of "gold, wood, water, fire, sun, moon and earth" with his eyes. The meaning of the word "virtue" tells us to do things and behave according to nature.
Now we have heating in cold weather, air conditioning in hot weather, and eat out-of-season fruits and vegetables grown in greenhouses. The development of science and technology is also accompanied by a lot of violations of the laws of nature, which is reflected in the natural environment is the frequency of extreme weather, global warming, a large number of Arctic glaciers are melting, many islands are disappearing, and the reason for the change of the earth is that we do not follow nature.
For people's original heart, "at the beginning of man, nature is good", and the kindness that follows the heart is virtue. Put this word "virtue" into our lives, that is, whether a person's behavior and behavior conform to nature, the environment, whether it follows the natural development, and whether it is "virtuous", can be called a person with "moral conduct".