Personal dignity means that citizens' qualifications and rights as equal persons should be recognized and respected by the state, including inviolable rights such as reputation, name and portrait, which are closely related to citizens' personal life. The legal expression of personal dignity is the citizen's personality right.

Article 38 of the Constitution stipulates that "the personal dignity of the people and citizens of China is inviolable, and it is forbidden to insult, slander or falsely accuse or frame citizens in any way." This is the first time that China's constitution has written the inviolable content of personal dignity into the constitution, and this provision has been realized through the general principles of civil law, criminal law and other ordinary laws.

There is no provision or explanation in legislation and judicature, because personal dignity is abstract. In the theory of civil law, some people think that personal dignity is the right with ethical character, the unity of the subject's respect for himself and being respected by others, and the combination of subjective and objective evaluation of personal value.

Some people think that personal dignity is one of the contents of general personality rights, and it is also the most important content of general personality rights. It refers to the lowest social status that the civil subject should have as a "person" and be respected by others and society. It is the combination of the civil subject's understanding of their own value and the minimum respect they enjoy in society.

These understandings basically agree that personal dignity is basic and subjective and objective values are compound. Therefore, to judge whether a natural person's personal dignity has been violated, we should not only consider the natural person's subjective self-esteem feelings, but also consider from an objective point of view whether the most basic respect he enjoys as a "person" has been derogated; If so, his personal dignity will be violated.

Personal dignity refers to the self-esteem of citizens, which is the minimum right that society and others should respect. Article 38 of our Constitution stipulates that the personal dignity of the people and citizens of China is inviolable. It is forbidden to insult, slander, falsely accuse or frame citizens in any way.