Pondering over Confucius' Self-restraint & Returning to Rites and Harmonious Concept

Confucius' concept of harmony is completely for self-restraint returning to rites.It takes benevolence as its core,rite as its external,harmony as human being's target.This shows us that he paid his deep concern on some issues,such as human beings' existence and development,harmonious relationship between human and nature.This paper is to explain the logic connotation of the above three aspects and the content of his harmonious concept,analyzes the positive spiritual values of his concept of harmony,and then obtains some points for the construction of our socialist society.