What is the positive significance of Mencius' people-oriented thought?

First, conform to public opinion and restrict authoritarianism. Second, it has maintained social order and national stability. The third is to strengthen cultural identity, consolidate national unity and promote national unity. Fourth, to satisfy the people materially, politically and spiritually. Economically, we implement various policies to benefit the people, politically love and forgive the people, and ideologically educate and educate the people.

China's ancient people-oriented thought only attached importance to the people in values, which could play a role in easing class contradictions and reducing the burden on the people to a certain extent. The "people" in people-oriented thought is relative to monarchs and rulers, and its essence is to maintain the ruling position of feudal rulers. The "people-oriented" advocated by our party insists on putting the interests of the people first, which embodies the status of the people as masters of the country.

People-oriented information expansion thought is an extremely important ideological resource in China traditional culture, which originated at the turn of Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The ancient people-oriented thought has gone through the development process from respecting heaven and ghosts to respecting morality and protecting the people, from attaching importance to the people and the king.

Since the country came into being, China has entered a new stage of development, and its social nature has also changed from primitive society to class society, which is manifested in later slave society, feudal society and centralized autocratic society. People-oriented thought has always existed and played an important role in the development and change of national political system.

At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, with the fierce class struggle and the emergence of new factors of production relations, the ancient people-oriented thought was greatly exerted, and progressive thinkers represented by Huang Zongxi, Gu and Wang Fuzhi profoundly exposed and criticized the autocratic monarchy.

He accused the monarchy of being "a great harm to the world", opposed the monarch to regard the world as private property, and put forward that "the world is the mainstay and the monarch is the guest", and the monarch's responsibility lies in "doing things for all people in the world". This kind of social and political thought is progressive and can be regarded as the enlightenment of early democratic thought.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-People-oriented Thought