The term "litigation-free" is derived from Confucius' words: "To hear lawsuits, I must also make it litigation-free.

The term "litigation-free" originates from the words of Confucius: "To listen to litigation, I am like a human being, and I must also make it litigation-free." The Analects of Yan Yuan (顏渊), meaning that I judge cases no differently from others, but my goal is to make people free of litigation. The phenomenon of non-litigation is a very influential concept of legal proceedings in ancient China, and even today it is still prevalent in the vast rural society. In short, it means that people do not advocate the use of lawsuits to resolve disputes, but rather utilize traditional concepts of ethics and morality to mediate and harmonize.

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Non-litigious nature

Contradictions do not necessarily have to be tit-for-tat, but can be resolved. Today you won the lawsuit, I am not happy, tomorrow another thing to retaliate against you, so when is the revenge. As the saying goes, it is better to settle a dispute than to tie it up. It is better to resolve a dispute than to create a new one. If mediation fails, it is not too late to litigate again.

Just like the "Zhouyi" in the "litigation trigram" after the "division trigram", if the lawsuit can not, then I will go out to fight you, this is for the contradiction between the state. This is for the conflict between countries. The reasoning is the same as the conflict between people, and if they can't reconcile, then they will sue again.

Sun Tzu also said, without war and give up the army, the good of the good. So litigation and war are to the situation of last resort can be used, encountered contradictions first mainly mediation.