The Three People's Principles consist of the principles of nationalism, democracy and people's livelihood. The Three People's Principles is the program of democratic revolution advocated by Sun Yat-sen and the essence and high generalization of his democratic thought.

In the early days, Sun Yat-sen's understanding of "people" was more about sympathy, valuing people, loving people and saving people. He wants to seek the way of national prosperity by attaching importance to the people, because the people are rich, the country is rich, the people are poor and the country is weak.

During the Revolution of 1911, Sun Yat-sen's understanding of "people" rose to a new height, and the League was established. He took the "people-oriented" Three People's Principles as the guiding ideology of the Revolution of 1911, and also achieved a leap from the traditional people-oriented thought to modern democracy in political philosophy.

After the founding of the Republic of China, he advocated uniting the people of the whole country and "building the most prosperous and happiest country in the world by the people, by the people and for the people."

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In the late Qing Dynasty, society gradually degenerated from feudal society to semi-feudal and semi-colonial society. Undoubtedly, great social changes have had an extremely important impact on the formation of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary democratic thought.

Various national salvation schemes of the Qing government failed one after another. The bourgeois idea of democratic revolution spread further. They took the western bourgeoisie's natural human rights, freedom and equality theory as ideological weapons, the American and French democratic thoughts as political thoughts, and combined with China's national conditions, put forward the revolutionary program of the Three People's Principles to guide the practice of the Revolution of 1911, which was also related to Sun Yat-sen's ideological transformation.

In fact, the Three People's Principles are the summary and high generalization of a series of thoughts and practical experiences of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in saving the nation from peril and exploring China's modernization. After these thoughts and experiences rose to theory, they played a very important role in guiding and promoting the revolutionary actions of Sun Yat-sen himself and his followers.

The Three People's Principles are the spiritual heritage of the people of China and a great force to inspire the people of China to revive China. Then the Three People's Principles have its inevitable limitations of the times.

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