On“Keeping Equal Is Not Fair”and Social Stratum Relations

The thought ofKeeping Equal Is Not Fairis a national and social governance philosophy advocated by Xun Zi,and it has great practical reference to the contemporary social stratum problems caused by social class differentiation.The content implied by the thought includes the unity of social differentiation and harmony,maintaining social equity as basis,and taking rule by rites and rule by law as protection,which is all beneficial to the reasonable division of contemporary social class and promotes flow between different social classes,and coordinates the class contradictions.This thought could improve people's livelihood to achieve the goal ofKeeping Equal,and the justice during the allocation process,and narrow the gap of classes.It is also helpful to establish the courtesy behavior criterion,to take the law as the baseline for strata behavior,and to regulate behavior of classes.And it is conducive to achieve the goal of building harmonious class relations.