Cultivation means cultivating the body and mind, and striving to improve one's own ideological and moral cultivation. Taoism, Confucianism, and Mohism all talk about self-cultivation, but the content is different. Since Confucius, Confucianism has attached great importance to self-cultivation and regarded it as one of the eight objectives of education. The Confucian standards of "self-cultivation" are mainly the way of loyalty and forgiveness and the three cardinal principles and five constant principles. They are essentially idealistic methods of self-cultivation that are divorced from social practice. They believe that the process of self-cultivation is: investigation, knowledge, sincerity, and righteousness. The foundation of self-cultivation is to organize the family, govern the country, and bring peace to the world. Therefore, through the method of "reflection and seeking within", the individual's behavior is consistent with feudal morality, and talents are cultivated for the consolidation of feudal rule and political power. Taoism's self-cultivation requires conforming to nature; Mozi requires "the combination of will and work" to promote benefits, eliminate harm, and bring peace to the world. Nutritional health terminology. It refers to the cultivation of spiritual emotions and moral cultivation. See "Huainanzi·Chu Zhenxun": "Quietness and tranquility are the reason for cultivating one's nature." Taoism and Taoism advocate indifference and inaction to cultivate human nature. It is also another name for health preservation. For example, Volume 27 of "Essential Prescriptions for Emergencies": "Daolin Nurturing Nature" is a special chapter on health preservation. Investigating Things 1: Investigate the truth of things 2: Correct people's behavior to manage the family. The quote comes from "Book of Rites·Da Xue": "Those who want to harmonize their families must first cultivate their own bodies." Li Yu's "Kite Mistakes·Bouice Couple" of the Qing Dynasty: "If you don't know how to harmonize your family, you will be an official, just because of the strictness and leniency of love and law." Chapter 1 of Part 5 of Kang Youwei's "Book of Datong": "Isn't it absurd for husbands to live together with those who are different from each other, and to use this to unite the family?" The last article of the basic program of Neo-Confucianism in governing the country and managing society.

There is a saying in "Book of Rites University": "In ancient times, those who wanted to bring virtue to the world first governed their country; those who wanted to govern their country, first regulated their families (6); those who wanted to regulate their families, First cultivate the body (7); if you want to cultivate the body, you must first rectify your mind; if you want to rectify your mind, you must first be sincere in your intention; if you want to be sincere in your intention, you must first develop knowledge (8); to achieve knowledge is to study things (9) After knowing things well, one can be sincere in one's mind; one can be sincere in one's mind, and then one can cultivate one's mind; one can cultivate one's body, and then one can cultivate one's body; one can cultivate one's body, and then one can have a harmonious family; one can have a harmonious family, and then the country can be harmonized; and if the country can be harmonized, then the world can be at peace. . Generally it can be interpreted as "pacifying the world". Others believe that "pacifying the world" refers to appeasing the people of the world so that they can have enough food and clothing, live and work in peace and contentment, rather than using force to pacify the world.