The reason of people-oriented thought

People-oriented is simply people-oriented, which is embodied in what Mencius said: "The people are the most important, the country is the second, and the monarch is the light!"

First of all, from the viewpoint of the origin of monarch and people, most people-oriented thinkers in China think that the relationship between monarch and people is predestined, and only a few people think that kings should be freely elected by the people or produced from them in other ways. The vast majority of Democrats in the west believe that rulers are produced by the people and should be produced by the people through contracts.

Secondly, traditional people-oriented thinkers in China generally believe that monarchs are designed for the people to "comfort" and "nurture". But God's duty to the king is to care for and support the people. Therefore, the king is first responsible for the sky, not the people. On the other hand, western democrats advocate "owned by the people, governed by the people and enjoyed by the people", and think that rulers should be responsible to the people first.

Thirdly, China's people-oriented thinkers emphasized that people are the basic elements of a country, mainly from the perspective of political rule. In other words, without the people, rulers can not only rule, but also can not guarantee their own food, clothing, housing and personal safety. When western democratic thinkers say that people are the constituent elements of a country, their main focus is the natural composition of a country, that is, a country must have three basic elements: land, population and sovereignty.

People-oriented theorists presuppose that the people are the object of the king's rule when they regard the people as the foundation of the country, and there is no king's rule without the people. The people are the foundation of the whole political system, and the king is the sovereign of this political system.

Traditional people-oriented thinkers in China often emphasize both "people" and "monarch". Therefore, in terms of its ideological essence, China's traditional people-oriented is also a monarchist.