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What is the meaning of "Harmony", "Virtue", "Good Neighborliness", "Faith" and "Harmony"?

The concepts of "Harmony", "Virtue" and "Good Neighborliness" are y rooted in the traditional culture of the Chinese people, and reflect the spirit of the Chinese people's love of peace.

Speaking of faith and cultivating harmony is from the Book of Rites, the original text of which reads: "The way of the world is public, the world is fair, the virtuous and the capable are chosen, and faith and harmony are cultivated. The meaning is that we should seek trust and harmony. Harmony with all nations is from the Yao Code of the Book of Changes, which reads: "The people are clear, the nations are harmonized, and the people are in the time of change". The meaning is that Yao's government was brilliant and he harmonized with his vassals, and the people were influenced by him to become friendly.

The core idea of "Speak Faith, Practice Harmony, Harmonize with All Nations" is to seek honesty and integrity, and to live in harmony and good-neighborliness. It encompasses the traditional virtue of honesty of the Chinese nation, eloquently summarizes the ideological essence of the excellent Chinese culture of peace, and also reflects the important proposition of China's independent, peaceful and friendly foreign policy.

With words rich in Chinese cultural heritage, it has brought China closer to its neighbors and countries around the world in terms of equal exchanges and cooperation, demonstrated its sincere, firm and persistent belief in peace, and conveyed the world vision of the Chinese people as peace-loving, respecting cultural plurality and civilizational diversity, and advocating openness and tolerance as well as exchanges and mutual understanding.

China's neighboring countries vary greatly in their degree of economic and social development, and have rich and diverse histories, cultures and religions. How to make different civilizations ****exist and develop, in the final analysis lies in and, that is, peace between countries, harmony between people, and harmony between people and nature. Harmony is an intrinsic gene of Chinese culture, which embodies the Chinese people's cherishing and yearning for peace and harmony since ancient times, and reflects the basic connotation of peace-loving and harmony in the spirit of the Chinese nation.