在古汉语中,忠、诚独自成词,至唐代后才有忠诚的合用。从词源学来看,忠、诚二字各有其基本涵义。忠的道德观念的演变,在原始社会中萌芽,随着自然经济的发展及其阶级关系的变化而发展,在人格不平等的基础上,围绕忠的对象“君主”展开的,经历了否定之否定的辩证发展过程。古代的“忠”观念具有欺骗性、强制性和枷锁性。现代意义上的忠诚,以认同作为其理性基础,以服从作为其实现条件,以奉献为价值取向,是处理人际关系的基本的道德规范,己经成为一种群体意识和共同心理,成为民族凝聚力的精神要素。 In ancient Chinese language, loyalty and honesty were used independently, and only after the Tang Dynasty became loyal ones. From the etymology point of view, loyalty, honesty has its own basic meaning. The evolution of loyalty to moral notions has sprouted in the primitive society, developed with the development of the natural economy and changes in the class relations, and underwent a change based on the inequality of personality and around the loyal object “the sovereign” Negative negation of the dialectical development process. Ancient “loyalty ” concept has the deceit, compulsion and shackles. In the modern sense of loyalty, taking identity as its rational foundation, taking obedience as its realization condition and dedication as its value orientation are the basic moral norms that handle interpersonal relations and have become a kind of group consciousness and common psychology and become national cohesion Spiritual elements.