Basic interpretation: change the old atmosphere and customs. [Anti] conformism.

Detailed interpretation: shift: change; Yi: Transformation. Change old customs and habits.

Source "Rites and Music": "Therefore, I am happy and bright; Smart eyes and ears; Blood and gas peace; Change customs; The world is peaceful. "

Example:

"The Original Road of Huainanzi": "It is idealistic for a husband to manage three seedlings, face feathers, move to a naked country, be cautious, and change customs without giving orders."

Sima Qian's Historical Records Le Shu: "Changing customs will make the world better." Zhang Tang observes justice: "The upper refers to the wind, and the lower refers to the vulgar."

Biography of Yan Hanshi Ladan: "Today, I want to suppress evil and prevent it, and I want to comfort the people and change the customs."

"filial piety and Taoism": "changing customs and customs, not good at music."

Preface to the Biography of Officials in Southern History: "As for morality, it is inevitable to change customs."

The Biography of Sui Shu Volume 57 and Xue Daoheng: "Hanging politics and religion in Wei Que, facing the public and then in Tang Ming, getting rid of the old cloth and changing customs."

Song Fan Zhongyan's Book of the Dynasty: changing customs is empty talk, and attaching importance to feelings is learning. "

The Qing Palace treasured the "Countermeasures": "If you keep the order for a long time, you have the right to change customs."

Idiom allusions:

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the social order was very unstable. Although the national strength has been restored to a certain extent, the social atmosphere has not changed much. Jia Yi was deeply worried about this issue, so he wrote to Emperor Wendi: Although the regime has changed, the social customs and customs still exist, and the mission of changing customs and customs can not be shirked, and people can not rely solely on letters.

Confucian aesthetic terms. It means that literature and art have the aesthetic function of changing social atmosphere and customs. Language "Xunzi Music Theory": "Therefore, the music is bright, the ritual trip, the eyes and ears are smart, the blood is peaceful, the customs are changed, and the world is peaceful." Xunzi believes that music can make people feel happy, deeply move people and change social atmosphere and customs. Therefore, the combination of ceremony and music can make the society stable.