What is the golden mean? Cheng Zi is "impartial"; It is not easy to call it mediocrity "; Success is the right path of the world, mediocrity is the theorem of the world; The nature of fate; Those who are honest are the way to say it; Cultivation is called teaching; If you are a Taoist, you can't leave for a moment; Separable, non-Tao; Therefore, a gentleman is wary of not seeing it, fearing that it is unheard of; Don't hide it, don't show it; A gentleman is cautious and independent; Happiness, anger, sadness, and joy are not sent, which is called; Sent in the festival, for and; If you are in the middle, you are the biggest in the world; And also, the world is also; Neutralization, the position of heaven, the education of all things; Gentlemen respect morality and seek knowledge, making it broad and subtle, extremely clear and moderate; Review the old and learn the new, with trepidation.
The above is an excerpt from the content of The Doctrine of the Mean, which basically summarizes the essence of The Doctrine of the Mean. Among them, what I appreciate most is that "a gentleman respects morality and seeks knowledge, making it profound and extremely clear and moderate; I think this is the fundamental reason why the Chinese nation can constantly strive for self-improvement and tolerate everything.
Although the golden mean emphasized by the ancients is a wise saying, from the perspective of Marxist philosophy, the golden mean of the ancients is still static, one-sided and single. Although ostensibly pursuing the golden mean and emphasizing its function, it only passively and statically adheres to the rules and maintains the basic "zero boundary", without dynamically and kinematically thinking about the positive significance of the golden mean, resulting in one-sided and one-sided understanding.