中华民族拥有五千年的灿烂文化,在源远流长,浩如烟海,博大精深的文化遗产中蕴涵着优秀的传统美德。在改革开放的新形势下,加强青少年的传统美德教育,仍是新时期中学德育内容的组成部分。李岚清同志指出:“我们要在进行马克思主义教育同时,也要用五千年来形成的优秀伦理道德规范 The Chinese nation has a splendid culture of 5,000 years. It has a long history, a vast expanse of water, and a profound cultural heritage containing outstanding traditional virtues. Under the new situation of reform and opening up, strengthening young people’s traditional virtue education is still part of the content of high school moral education in the new period. Comrade Li Lanqing pointed out: "We must carry out Marxist education, but we must also use the excellent ethical code that has been formed over the past five thousand years.