Things that are in harmony with each other will not succeed if they are the same." ("Guoyu Zhengyu"), that is to say, only things that are uneven and different can learn from each other and produce new things that are exactly the same. If things come together, they can only stay in their original state forever and cannot continue to develop. "A gentleman is harmonious but different, and a villain is harmonious but not harmonious." "A gentleman can maintain a harmonious relationship with the people around him, but he must deal with everything through his own independent thinking, and never wants to follow others' opinions and blindly agree; but a villain has no independent opinions of his own and only seeks to be consistent with others. , do not pay attention to principles, but cannot maintain a harmonious relationship with others. The idea of ????"harmony between heaven and man, people and everything" means that heaven and earth are like parents, humans and everything are born from heaven and earth, and people are all my brothers. All things are my friends.
People are the foundation of a country, no need to explain. The combined meaning is: people do have and should have differences (with real creatures). We, China, must maintain good relations with your foreign countries, but we will never copy your ideas ( Harmony but not uniformity),
We are all born from heaven and earth, and we are all brothers (heaven and man are one, and people and things are the same). As long as we all put the people first (the people are the foundation of the country), we will All are good. To put it bluntly, it’s still: respect each other and not interfere in each other’s internal affairs. The practical significance is that we will neither follow the path of the West nor the path of Soviet Russia.
What path should we take? There is China The unique path of hierarchical harmony. What is hierarchical harmony? It is the ritual and music culture created by Zhou Gong and others. It is the king, the minister, the minister, the father, the son and the son.