On the Cultivation of the Gratitude Consciousness of Contemporary College Students

Thanksgiving is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, and is an important part of contemporary college students' ideological and moral quality. In the era of the information explosion, in China where the family planning policy is earnestly implemented, the gratitude consciousness of more and more college students is slowly cut, but is more focused on the surface form. Therefore, in this paper the author puts forward some constructive opinions and suggestions on the lack the sense of gratitude of college students. The Chinese nation has given birth to many outstanding traditional virtues in the history of five thousand years, especially advocating gratitude, for example, "Gratitude for the source of benefit", "Little help brings much return", "Such maternal love can't be repaid by the inch-long grass", "who knows every grain of the food comes from the hard work", "It is inhumane to forget a generous act". Thanksgiving should be the due basic moral criterion and the basic literacy of everyone especially the college students, and should become a common social morality. However, due to the prevalence of the utilitarian concept during the period of the social transformation, some college students are emotionally indifferent and "ungrateful", and their self-consciousness expands and they have other undesirable phenomena. Therefore, cultivating their awareness of thanksgiving should be imperative.