On the Construction and Practice of Ideal Personality from Scholar's Family Discipline during the Weijin and South-North Dynasty

The scholars in the Weijin and the South-North Dynasty often truly expressed in their family discipline their moral beliefs and pursuits to their ideal personality. The construction mode of their ideal personality was mainly to create the ideal personality by becoming the moral models and setting good examples. The basic features of their ideal personality were as follows: First, they owned lofty aspirations; Second, they were loyal to their moral beliefs; Third, they had strong consciousness about the society. A variety of factors, such as times, social situation and personal experience, made it extremely difficult to shape the ideal personality. The following were its specific aspects: The ideal scholars stuck to their ideal personality; The practical scholars lost their ideal personality; Scholars who wavered between ideal personality and real personality found it hard to make a choice.