The Junzi’s Personality Thought in Confucian and its Exemplary Signifi cance

Abstract

As early as in the pre-Qin period, the word “Junzi” has appeared in people’s vision. At the beginning, most of the em-phasis was placed on people with high status such as “the son of the monarch” and “aristocrat”. The word “personality” originated from the West, with its original meaning similar to “mask” and “role”, and has since become one of the core concepts of psycholo-gy and other disciplines. Later, in classics such as the Book of Songs and the Analects of Confucius, the word “junzi” was endowed with moral and self-cultivation meanings, and the junzi personality gradually became an ideal personality pursued and inherited by the Chinese people from generation to generation. Chinese traditional culture believes that beauty is the highest realm of life, and this realm of life is embodied in the construction and pursuit of a gentleman’s personality. Therefore, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the strategic task of “cultivating new people to assume the great responsibility of national rejuvenation”, among which “having a sense of responsibility” is one of the characteristics of a gentleman’s personality,while “new people of The Times” requires people to develop in all aspects of thought, morality, behavior and so on. The personal-ity of a gentleman not only continues the excellent traditional Chinese philosophical thoughts of “inclusiveness” and “harmony is the most precious”, but also embodies the thoughts of love, loyalty, prudence, unity of knowledge and practice, which have certain demonstration signifi cance for the present. Therefore, we can look at the Confucian defi nition of the gentleman’s personality from the level of aesthetic culture, sort out the methods and ways to shape the gentleman’s personality, and understand the role of the gentleman’s personality in the traditional world, scholars, offi cials, and even the whole society, and its exemplary signifi cance to the current society.