First, the concept of "eight honors and eight disgraces" is a new development of the revolutionary concept of honor and disgrace and the socialist concept of honor and disgrace. Why do you say that? This is mainly because, in all historical periods of revolution, construction and reform, our party has always attached great importance to the important role of the correct concept of honor and disgrace. In the revolutionary war years, Mao Zedong pointed out: "At any time and anywhere, party member should not put personal interests first, but should subordinate personal interests to the interests of the country and the people. Therefore, selfishness, slacking, corruption, showing off the limelight and so on. Is the most despicable; The spirit of selfless dedication, active efforts, self-denial and hard work is admirable. " Under the guidance of this revolutionary concept of honor and disgrace, our party and its people are proud of the revolution, ashamed of betraying the revolution, proud of being brave in sacrifice, proud of being afraid of death, proud of being in close contact with the masses and ashamed of being divorced from the people. Thousands of revolutionary martyrs, such as the Eighteen Warriors of Dadu River and Zhang Side, have emerged, which has promoted the victory of the China Revolution. After entering the new era of reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping vigorously advocated emancipating the mind and reform and opening up, emphasizing: "The people of China have their own national pride and pride. It is their greatest glory to love the motherland and contribute all their strength to building the socialist motherland, and it is their greatest shame to damage the interests, dignity and honor of the socialist motherland." Under the guidance of this socialist concept of honor and disgrace, party organizations at all levels and the broad masses of cadres and the masses are proud of ideological emancipation, ashamed of rigid thinking, proud of reform and opening up, proud of being conservative and closed, proud of getting rich first, and ashamed of being content with poverty, and a number of reformers and doers have emerged, which have made great achievements in promoting socialist modernization. Hu Jintao's "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" inherited and developed our party's traditional revolutionary and socialist concept of honor and disgrace under the new historical conditions, clearly answered the important question of what is the concept of honor and disgrace in the process of building a well-off society in an all-round way, set a benchmark for the moral construction of the whole party and society, and raised the socialist concept of honor and disgrace to a new level.
Second, the concept of "eight honors and eight disgraces" is a concentrated expression of the organic combination of the excellent cultural tradition of the Chinese nation and the spirit of the reform and opening up era. "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" is the main content of socialist concept of honor and disgrace, which belongs to the category of moral concept. In ancient China, the role of morality was attached great importance as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty. One of the main characteristics of Confucianism is to emphasize the role of morality and advocate "ruling the country by virtue", which is an important content of the excellent cultural tradition of the Chinese nation. Influenced by the Confucian concept of honor and disgrace, our traditional moral education emphasizes teaching people to know shame, and the idea of knowing shame is deeply accumulated in the hearts of China people. In socialist society, under the new historical conditions of reform and opening up, the role of morality is still very important. While emphasizing "ruling the country according to law", the CPC Central Committee has clearly put forward the requirement of "ruling the country by virtue", which are the two basic strategies for our party to lead and govern the country. Hu Jintao's "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" expounded the basic content of the socialist concept of honor and disgrace, which not only inherited the excellent cultural tradition of "ruling the country by virtue" of the Chinese nation, but also adhered to the Marxist moral outlook, adapted to the new requirements of China's reform and opening up and the development of socialist market economy at the present stage, and adapted to the new requirements of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and was a concentrated expression of the organic combination of excellent cultural traditions and the spirit of the times.
Third, the concept of "eight honors and eight disgraces" is a banner that leads the fundamental improvement of social fashion. Social fashion refers to the prevailing social customs and habits and is an important yardstick to measure the degree of social civilization. With the deepening of reform and opening up and the development of socialist market economy, the social morality in China has undergone gratifying changes, showing a positive, healthy and upward trend. However, due to the influence of many factors, there are still serious phenomena such as low moral level, even confusion between good and evil, and distinction between honor and disgrace. Therefore, we must vigorously advocate the socialist concept of honor and disgrace as the consensus of the whole society, as the criterion for everyone to be a man, and promote the gradual transformation of social customs into good and healthy aspects. Hu Jintao's concept of "eight honors and eight disgraces" highlights what kind of thoughts and behaviors should be affirmed and praised, and what kind of thoughts and behaviors should be denied and condemned in our society. This has indeed set a banner for the whole party and society to lead the fundamental improvement of social atmosphere, which is conducive to encouraging people to strengthen their ideological and moral cultivation, prompting people to despise and abandon the "eight disgraces", and then gradually form an atmosphere of promoting good and restraining evil, resisting ugliness and resisting rape.
Fourth, establishing the concept of "eight honors and eight disgraces" is an important premise and foundation for combating corruption and promoting honesty. Anti-corruption mainly includes two aspects: one is to rely on self-discipline of moral norms, and the other is to rely on heteronomy of legal norms. Among them, self-discipline is the premise and basic work; Heteronomy is a compulsory and supportive work, and both aspects are indispensable. In practical work and life, to play a role, especially for a long time, moral norms need to start five links, namely, moral understanding, moral emotion, moral will, moral belief and moral habits. Among these five links, the first and second links are the most important, but also the prerequisite and foundation. Only when we clearly realize that it is good, just and glorious to act according to moral norms, and vice versa, can we grasp the moral yardstick to measure our behavior and overcome those "immoral consciousness" and "anti-moral consciousness". The importance of Hu Jintao's "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" lies in that it is first of all a kind of moral understanding, the first step towards the socialist moral threshold and the most important basis for observing the socialist moral norms. The first thing to do to fight corruption and promote honesty is to let people know about the relevant moral norms through publicity and education, and earnestly abide by them. If you don't even have a basic moral understanding, the so-called anti-corruption and honesty can't be discussed. Establishing the consciousness of "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" actually includes establishing correct socialist moral feelings and establishing correct political conscience of citizens, party member, especially leading cadres.
Fifth, establishing the concept of "eight honors and eight disgraces" is the fundamental requirement for cultivating new socialist "four haves". Cultivating new people of the times is related to the prosperity of the nation and the country. As early as the founding of New China, Mao Zedong put forward the strategic task of cultivating successors to the socialist cause with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique. In the early days of reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping not only summarized the basic requirements of socialist successors in the new period as "four haves", but also attached great importance to the ideological and moral education of teenagers. Hu Jintao's concept of "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" is a new requirement for the ideological and moral construction of the whole party and the people of the whole country, as well as for the ideological and moral construction of teenagers. As the old saying goes, "the shame of teaching comes first" and "the shame of enlightenment comes first". The concept of honor and disgrace is an important psychological mechanism to cultivate teenagers' moral quality. The sense of shame of teenagers and social citizens is not innate, but formed through acquired education and training. Let the education of "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" enter the school, the classroom and the students' thoughts, and we can achieve good results as soon as possible in cultivating young people to establish a socialist concept of honor and disgrace.