Dong Zhongshu (179- 104), a native of Dadong Guzhuang, Guang Chuan Town, Jingxian County, Hengshui City, Hebei Province, was a thinker, philosopher, politician and educator in Han Dynasty. Dong Zhongshu's two articles "Three Strategies for Heaven and Man" and "Fu for Scholars" are still of high value, especially the book "The Story of the Spring and Autumn Period". On the basis of profound knowledge, Mr. Dong Zhongshu's testimony absorbed the cognitive essence of "Huang Lao" and other hundred schools with the essence of yin and yang and five elements, and combined with verification, he knew the subtle words, the way of righteousness and the state of celestial changes, and wrote the glory of traditional culture. Also known as a great scholar by later generations.

In the first year of Yuanguang (BC 134), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued a letter to seek a general plan for governing the country. Dong Zhongshu systematically put forward the epoch-making thought of the unity of heaven and man, which pushed the traditional culture's way of employing people to an unprecedented height, especially praising the Six Classics. Dong Zhongshu believes that the greatness of Tao originates from heaven, and nature and personnel are entrusted by destiny, and they are all integrated into the understanding of the unity of all things. Dong Zhongshu's thought laid a foundation for the inheritance of traditional culture, and clearly expounded the traditional culture of the motherland and even the way of governing the country.

Born in heaven, people also make life righteous and beneficial, let them keep fit, and keep their hearts righteous. The mind can't be right, can't be happy, can't benefit the body, can't be safe, and can be raised with the heart. The body is not expensive in the heart, so nurturing is more important than righteousness, and righteousness is more important than profit. Do you know that?/You know what? Today, people are righteous, which is very unprofitable. Although poor and mean, I am still proud of my actions, and I am also a member of Yuanxian, Zeng and Min. People are very beneficial and meaningless. Although they are rich, they are humiliated, what goes around comes around, and the disaster is serious. Those who die innocently are suffering from injury and sorrow, so they can't end their lives happily, and those who die will also be punished. An honest wife can live happily even if she is poor; And big nonsense, although rich, can't live; In my opinion, maintaining this true health is more important than profit and heavier than wealth. People can't help but know, but often on the contrary, they die for profit and forget righteousness, ignore it and do evil, steal their bodies and harm their homes. It's not their own affair, so they can't know what they know. Today, I show the baby dates and wrong gold. The baby will take dates instead of gold, and show a catty of gold and thousands of pearls to the savage. The savage will take gold instead of pearls. Therefore, things are different, the small ones are easy to know, but the big ones are hard to see. Today, those who benefit the little are for the people, and those who are righteous are for the people's congress. No wonder people are pursuing interests instead of justice and consolidating their darkness. The sage is honest and upright, so the people are not sleepy. The poem says, "Show virtue by virtue." This is also called. First, Wang Xiande showed people by virtue, and folk music was regarded as poetry, but what he said became vulgar, so he stopped doing it. From top to bottom, he didn't want to make it, so it was logical to say: a saint who moved heaven and earth and modernized the four modernizations must have him, so he saw righteousness, so he moved, moved and changed, so he could move greatly, but the law did not move much. Today, if you don't show virtue, the people can't shine in the dark, and if you stick to the Tao, you can't solve it. If you want to be strict, you want to be strict, you want to be strict, you want to destroy thieves and the people, and you want to be weak. Zhong Ni said, "The state-owned road has no punishment, although it is aggravated; The country has no way, although it is killed, it cannot be won. " The so-called Tao has no Tao, which shows virtue and does not show virtue.

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Heaven and earth give birth to people, which makes life beneficial. Nourish the body and the spirit with righteousness. The spirit will not be happy without righteousness; If the body is not nourished by interests, it will not be comfortable. Righteousness is spiritual cultivation. Benefits nourish the body. Body is not as valuable as spirit, so nothing is more important than righteousness. Therefore, it is much more important to support people's spirit with righteousness than to support people's health with money. How did you know? Now some people's thoughts are just right, but there is no benefit, so that despite their poverty and humble, they can still feel glorious for their actions, lead an honest and clean life, and enjoy it, such as Yuan Xian, Zeng Shen and Min Loss. Some people have many benefits, but they lack righteousness. In this way, although they are rich and noble, they bear great humiliation, deep resentment and serious disasters. They either die of crime immediately or suffer disaster immediately, and they can't be happy all their lives. This is the kind of person who was slaughtered and died early. Honest people, despite poverty, can still enjoy themselves; And people without righteousness can't live even if they have money. Based on this, I prove that it is more important to support people with righteousness than to make money.

Ordinary people don't know this truth, and often do the opposite. They forget benevolence and sacrifice for the benefit, and go astray for morality, unfairly hurting themselves and their families. This is either because he didn't try his best to benefit himself or because his wisdom is not clear enough. If someone shows the baby dates and coins, the baby will definitely take dates instead of coins; If you show the savage a catty of gold and jewels worth 10 million, the savage will definitely take the gold instead of the jewels. So ordinary people's things are easy to understand, and big things are hard to understand. Now, profit has little to do with people, but righteousness has a lot to do with people. No wonder people tend to be righteous. This point was originally unknown to ordinary people.

The sage clarifies righteousness and makes people understand the relationship between righteousness and benefit, so that people will not commit crimes. The Book of Songs says, "Show me my virtue." That's what it means. The ancient holy king showed the people with mingde, praised it by folk music, and pretended this poem; Sincerity is in my heart and influenced by others, forming a custom. So they don't have to be ordered to do good, they will do good themselves. They don't have to be forbidden to break the law, they won't break the law automatically. They obey the will of the rulers above and wait for no one to drive them, so they naturally do so. Therefore, the reason why a saint can move heaven and earth and change the four seasons is not because he knows the great righteousness, so he can be moved; Can be moved, so it can be changed; Can be changed, so education is universal; Education is universal, so people don't break the law; People don't break the law, so there is no need to use punishment; No punishment, it is the merit of Yao and Shun. This is the rule of the world, which was handed down by the ancient holy king, so Confucius said, "Who can go out without entering the door?" Why govern the world but follow this truth! "

Now, if we don't show the obvious virtues to the people, the people will not understand justice, and they will be confused by reason and unable to get rid of justice. Therefore, if we want to use cruel and cruel methods to correct them, it will only harm the people in heaven and make the monarch's virtue shallow, which will not work under the circumstances at that time. Confucius said, "The government of the country is clear. Although you want to kill people, you should not kill them." By political clarity and impurity, he means that the people who show virtue are obvious or not.