The word "things with people" comes from Zhang Zai's Ximing.

Source:

Zhang Zai's "Ximing": "People and my compatriots, things are me and also."

Interpretation:

All the people are my compatriots; Everything is my contemporaries. It generally refers to lovers and all things, and is a metaphor for fraternity.

Example:

1. The so-called "love between people and things" means that all the people in the world are my brothers, and everything in the universe is my companion.

2. A gentleman's ambition also has the wealth of the people, the inheritance of being a saint inside and a king outside, and then he is not satisfied with his parents' birth, so he deserves to be a perfect man in heaven and earth.

3. Practitioners adhere to the concept of the unity of all things, so they develop the beliefs of cherishing life, not killing life, and harmony between people and things.

4. The human's belongings are our most precious assets.

5. It is not practical to advocate the harmony between people and things in a class society.

Introduction of Ximing and its author:

Introduction of Ximing:

Ximing is a masterpiece handed down from ancient times by Zhang Zai, and originally it was a part of Ganweigian in Zheng Meng, which was compiled by Zhang Zai's disciples. Its original name was Dingstubborn, and it was hung in the west and east of Hengqu School together with another piece, Bianyu. After seeing it, Cheng Yi, a Confucian in the Song Dynasty, found it easy to cause disputes, so he renamed them Ximing and Dongming respectively.

Ximing not only touches on the "benevolence" pursued by Confucianism since Confucius, but also shows its outstanding contribution to the overall exposition of the universe and the construction of Confucian world outlook.

why moral ethics and natural ethics are not separated from each other in the overall understanding of the world? Ximing gives a Confucian answer to this question, which also positively affects the understanding and positioning of the Chinese nation as a political entity.

Brief introduction of Zhang Zai:

Zhang Zai (12 -177), with a thick word, was born in Hengqu Town, Yangxian County (now Meixian County, Shaanxi Province), and was one of the founders of Neo-Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty. Known as Mr. Hengqu in the world, he is honored as Zhang Zi, and he is a sage, and he is the 38 th in the west of Confucius Temple.

His famous saying "Make a heart for heaven and earth, make a life for the people, learn from the past, and create peace for all generations" is called "Four Sentences in a Horizontal Canal" by contemporary philosopher Feng Youlan. Because of its conciseness and grandeur, it has been praised throughout the ages. Song Shenzong Xining ten years (177), died in Lintong on the way home, at the age of 58.

Zhang Zai, Zhou Dunyi, Shao Yong, Cheng Yi and Cheng Hao are called "the five sons of the Northern Song Dynasty", and there are some works left in the world, such as Zhengmeng and Yi Shuo of Hengqu.