Respecting the Elderly Is a Traditional Chinese Virtue

The elderly have accumulated a lifetime’s worth of experience. However, many young people often regard them as irrelevant, embarrassing, and out of touch. As far as I am concerned, the traditional Chinese virtue to respect the old people needs to be emphasized.
老年人積累了一生的寶貴經(jīng)驗。然而，許多年輕人把它漠不關心，感到為難并且與老人失去聯(lián)系。就我個人而言，尊重老年人是中華民族的傳統(tǒng)美德這種觀念應該加強。
Firstly, the elderly deserve the respect due to their effort in bringing up their children and their contribution to society. We should always bear in mind that what we have and enjoy now was created by the aged people in the early days, as the old Chinese saying goes,” One generation plants trees under whose shade another generation rests.” Secondly, family is one of the best places for learning values, therefore, to set an example at home by taking good care of the elderly members, so that children learn to adopt this same practice. In this way, families will exemplify the right values, and young members will learn first-hand on how to respect the elderly.
首先，由于老人在撫育他們的孩子和對社會的貢獻上來看，他們要受到尊重。我們應該一直記住我們現(xiàn)在擁有和享受到的東西是老一輩在早年時期創(chuàng)造出來的，正如中國的古語所說：“前人栽樹后人乘涼”。第二，家是學習價值觀最好的地方，因此給家庭成員樹立一個照料家人的好榜樣，孩子也會這樣做。如此，家人就會作為正確價值觀的典型榜樣，年輕的成員就會直接學習到如何尊重老年人。
Perhaps the most important test of a society is the way individuals behave towards one another. If young people do not respect the elderly; the whole of society will be a mess without respect. Therefore, the elderly should be respected by all of us.
也許社會中最重要的測試就是個人對另一個人的表現(xiàn)，如果年輕人不尊重老年人，整個社會缺乏尊重就會一片混亂。因此，老年人應該受到我們的尊重。