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Ancient Chinese Ideas of Harmony and its Modern Inspiration

Jian-You Guo

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As a core issue of traditional Chinese culture,the idea of harmony has rich implications,including the harmonious relationship between one's physical life and spiritual life,between human beings and between human beings and nature,which can be summarized as inner harmony,social harmony and universal harmony.This idea is still important in theory and practice.To build a harmonious socialist country,all relationship should be coordinated to suitably solve all social contradictions,which will help to attain the ideal of inner harmony,social harmony and the harmony between human beings and nature.

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As a core issue of traditional Chinese culture,the idea of harmony has rich implications,including the harmonious relationship between one's physical life and spiritual life,between human beings and between human beings and nature,which can be summarized as inner harmony,social harmony and universal harmony.This idea is still important in theory and practice.To build a harmonious socialist country,all relationship should be coordinated to suitably solve all social contradictions,which will help to attain the ideal of inner harmony,social harmony and the harmony between human beings and nature.

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As a core issue of traditional Chinese culture,the idea of harmony has rich implications,including the harmonious relationship between one's physical life and spiritual life,between human beings and between human beings and nature,which can be summarized as inner harmony,social harmony and universal harmony.This idea is still important in theory and practice.To build a harmonious socialist country,all relationship should be coordinated to suitably solve all social contradictions,which will help to attain the ideal of inner harmony,social harmony and the harmony between human beings and nature.

Key concepts: Harmony (color), Social harmony, Aesthetics, Harmonious Society, Environmental ethics, Sociology, Social life, Chinese culture

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