"Three cardinal guides and eight objectives" constructs a life schema, and its inherent logical and practical significance is that personal accomplishment is a measure of a person's career and provides lofty guidance for a person's career and life direction. Stop at the best, be virtuous and be close to the people are two subcategories, and the two subcategories have eight moral goals: unity, sincerity, integrity, restoration, harmony, governance and equality.

Self-cultivation as the core, step by step. The first few virtues focused on moral clarity, while the last few virtues focused on being close to the people. Around the moral subject-people, the moral purpose is gradually unfolding, pushing inward the moral clarity of generosity, sincerity and integrity, and pushing outward the neat, ruling and flat people.

Personality and ambition are the stage of spiritual cognition, honesty and integrity are the stage of spiritual internalization, and qi, governance and harmony are the stage of externalization of life. Self-cultivation is the central link, and internal and external integration, knowledge and action are integrated, and Ming De is close to the people until perfection.

It is necessary to know things well, to know what is possible and why not, to know what is good and what is not; Honesty and righteousness are to strengthen one's kindness and eliminate evil with righteousness; Qi, Zhi and He are amateurs in life. In ancient times, the family, the country and the world were integrated. The country in the world was based on the country, and the country was at home.

Mingming's virtue is transformed from the inside into "inner saint", and his person is transformed from the outside into "outer king". "If you are poor, you can be good at yourself and the world" is a concise interpretation of this life schema. For more than 2,000 years, generations of literati have paved the life course on this ladder, thus casting the personality psychology of China literati.