What does it mean to conduct one's life in a golden mean and to conduct one's mind in a free and easy way?

Deal with things with the golden mean that is impartial and unbiased, and purify your heart with the Lao-Zhuang way of being free and easy and self-cultivation. Only by dealing with the golden mean of Confucianism and achieving inner detachment with Taoism can you enter the world as a Confucian and emerge as a Taoist.

It even melts Confucianism and Taoism into one furnace, complementing each other and advancing and retreating freely.

Confucianism and Taoism have completely different basic characteristics in their attitudes towards life.

One is vigorous and promising, the other is pliable and obedient; one is enterprising and enterprising, while the other is hidden and retreating, but this is precisely the real prerequisite for them to achieve similarity and complementarity.

In fact, Confucianism and Taoism are not completely isolated and unrelated, but they blend with each other and complement each other internally and externally.

Confucianism and Taoism complement each other and are an ideal life model.

Confucianism dominates the external worldly progress of life, while Taoism dominates the internal psychological comfort of life.

Therefore, Confucianism is manifest and Taoism is hidden, Confucianism is external and Taoism is internal, Taoism is within Confucianism, and Confucianism is within Taoism. This is also the most common life attitude among ancient Chinese scholars.