Succeeding and fusing:A comparison of the national spirits between in Lao zi and Zhouyi

As two classics of traditional Chinese culture, Lao zi and Zhouyi are venerated as a wisdom collection of ancient Chinese society. The national spirits collectively manifested in them have always been exerting influences upon Chinese people's character and sentiments, as well as the cultural tradition and thinking distinction. Succeeding the spirit of Yi jing and inspiring the principles consisted in Yi zhuan, Lao zi, by its particular philosophical mode, established a national spirit conforming to its philosophy of Dao. This spirit was succeeded and fused by Yi zhuan. Complimenting to and developing each other, Lao zi and Yi zhuan jointly established the soul of Chinese national spirits and pushed forward the development and accumulation of Chinese culture and civilization. These national spirits are manifested as the enterprising spirit with the balance of hardness and softness, moral emotion with generosity, concept of harmony, and humanistic ideal of stressing on both righteousness and profit, among which the thinking mode of that man and heaven unite into one thread through, protruding the commonest characteristic and the most profound connotations of Chinese national spirits.