Every citizen is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. This is the social proposition of Gu Yanwu, a famous Confucian in the early Qing Dynasty. It means that the survival of the nation is the responsibility of every citizen. At that time, the Ming Dynasty had perished and was followed by the establishment of the Qing Dynasty. Gu Yanwu believed that the fall of the Ming Dynasty was only due to the change of an emperor. The original way of life and the way of governance guided by Confucianism did not change. This was called country subjugation. However, the rule of the Qing Dynasty not only required the change of an emperor, but also the change of the original To change the way of life and even to change the political rule with benevolence and righteousness at its core, this is called subjugating the world. Therefore, the world that Gu Yanwu talked about actually mainly refers to the Han nation and its original way of life.

However, because Gu Yanwu separated the world from the country, he called on people not to fight for the rise and fall of a certain royal family, but to fight for the survival of the nation