重友传统的源流、表征及当代意义

The History, Feature and Contemporary Role of the Friendship Valuing Tradition in Chinese Culture

朋友是家庭之外的一种社会关系,中国人对于朋友的认识经历了从"五教"到"五伦"的发展过程。春秋战国时期,儒家的先哲们对交友的目的、原则、方法进行了详细而全面的思想探索,这些思想在后世人们的交友实践中表现为真诚守信、相携互助、心志相通、惺惺相惜的光辉事迹,并被不断地丰富与发展,成为中国传统文化核心价值中非常重要的一种精神。古人重友的精神对当今时代人们的行为实践亦有着重要的指导意义。

Friendship is a relationship out of the family. The Chinese have experienced the process moving from ＂five teachings＂ to ＂five cardinal relationships＂. During the Spring-and-Autumn Period, Confucianism Philosophers explored thoroughly the purposes, principles and ways of making friends. These thoughts are embodied as honesty, faithfulness, mutual help, similar interest, and mutual admiration by later generations in theirs’ practice, and enriched and developed as a very important thought of traditional Chinese cultural core value. The ancient thought about friendship also plays an important role in guiding people to make friends nowadays.