Confucian sense of hardship represented by Confucius.
The sense of hardship refers to people's worries and thoughts arising from the hardships encountered by nature, society and life. Confucius is a thinker who systematically discusses the sense of hardship. His worries began with a miserable life. He pointed out: "If you don't practice virtue, you don't talk about learning, you can't migrate if you smell righteousness, and you can't change if you are not good, it's my worry." "If you don't suffer from what you don't know, you don't know who you are." "If you don't have long-term concerns, you will have near worries." This is all about life and the relationship between people. From this point of view, Confucius focused on caring for others, society and the country. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the feudal lords dominated, and social contradictions intensified. The actual sufferings made people pay more attention to the existing world society. hundred schools of thought was "worried about the world with his eyes closed", but each had his own worries. The main concern of Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi is not the change of social reality, but the pursuit of personal spiritual liberation. Mohism advocates universal love, and requires people with lofty ideals to strive for the benefit of the world and eliminate the harm of the world, while Mohism itself, day and night, is extremely bitter. On the one hand, Confucius put the interests of the country and society in the first place, and pursued the social ideal of bring peace and stability to the country and the world. On the other hand, the personal destiny is closely linked with the destiny of the whole society, and the personal sense of social responsibility is emphasized, so as to complete the task of self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world. Confucius said, "A gentleman worries about Tao but not poverty", "A gentleman seeks Tao but does not seek food" and "If he hears Tao, he will die in the evening." It is more comprehensive and systematic than other families to regard Tao as more important than people's wealth and life and advocate the spirit of sacrifice for Tao's benevolence.