The Book of Rites says: "The widowed, the widowed, the lonely and the disabled are all provided for ....."
"Orphan" is a child who lost his father in childhood, and we also say "orphan" in modern Chinese.
"Independence" means the elderly who have no children, and now we often say "the elderly who live alone".
"Loneliness" and "independence" are both people who have lost the care of their loved ones. These two words also have the meaning of compassion, sadness and sympathy. In China culture, we don't like loneliness.
In the western context, the meaning of "loneliness" is very different. The root "sol" in "loneliness" means "sun" and in Greek it means "only".
The word "loneliness" is developed from the western "sun" and "the only one", which produces a kind of conceited loneliness, similar to Zhuangzi's philosophy of "being alone with the soul of heaven and earth".
The development of the word "loneliness" in Chinese from the lack of Confucian interpersonal ethics always makes people feel sad.
Loneliness makes us stronger.
Loneliness is the beginning of a happy life.
You won't know how to get along with others without being alone with yourself. It seems that only loneliness can make life rich and gorgeous.
You have to be complete enough to love, take care of and bear others healthily.
The core value of loneliness is to be with yourself.
Confucian culture is a kind of group culture, which discusses the "five ethics", that is, "monarch, minister, father, son and son".
Teacher Jiang Xun divides "loneliness" into six types: loneliness of desire, loneliness of language, loneliness of revolution, loneliness of violence, loneliness of thinking and loneliness of ethics.