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How to understand the relationship between heaven and man as the program of traditional Chinese culture?

In Chinese culture, the relationship between heaven and man occupies an important position. How to recognize the relationship between heaven and man is a major issue in how one recognizes the universe of heaven and earth and life.

The concept of the unity of heaven and man has been given different meanings in different fields. Some people feel that it is a state of harmony in which people melt into heaven and earth; some feel that it is an intimate way of listening to and feeling nature; and some even feel that it is a mystical experience of dialog between man and God.

The unity of heaven and man is a state of freeing the mind and body by returning oneself to nature, and it is also an ideal state in which there is no difference and one with heaven and earth.

Introduction to Xunzi

Existing Xunzi book, *** thirty-two, the pre-Qin and Qin sons were criticized, and therefore also absorbed, can be said to be the learning of all the scholars, all inclusive. Academics generally believe that Xunzi is the last Confucian master of the late Warring States period, but also generally recognized that Xunzi's Confucianism is different from that of Confucius and Mencius.

Throughout the Warring States period, Confucianism was not taken seriously by the rulers of the time. The three masters, Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi, had all traveled around the states, propagating Confucianism and studying the lords. However, their theories were far from the needs of the times, so they had little effect. Therefore, the Confucianism from Xunzi began, will be determined to revolutionize Confucianism.

To make the new Confucianism adapt to the requirements of the new era and to serve the politics of the new era. In Xunzi's book, from his cosmology and epistemology all the way to his politics.