The Textual Research On Harmonious Thought In Ancient China

Harmonious thought in ancient China is the classic in the history ofthought. It obtained much commendation.Daringly speaking; thebeginning of Chinese harmonious thought can be traced back to the startof Chinese civilization. With the great civilization, it has been developedconstantly. Chinese harmonious thought comes down in a continuous line;such thought is seldom in Chinese history. It is enough to prove thatChinese harmonious thought itself has good quality and great value whichpeople can not be denied. However, Chinese harmonious thought is acrystallization of the wisdom of Chinese people in ancient, of course, ithas long history, and in plentiful books or historical objects. We need toexcavate deeply and tease systematically different historical records, sothat we can reveal the profound dimension and show a picture ofharmonious thought in ancient China completely.Harmonious thought in ancient is the wisdom of upholding andpursuing “harmony”. The key word is “harmony”, which determines thework of researching on harmonious thought in ancient China. Frommultidimensional visual angle, we got a historical verification about“harmony”, which is a values and methodology. It is an ordered, balance,stable, harmonious and unified existence which is made up of differentmulti elements; they can help and cooperate with each other. And also itis a best state of pluralism. It mirrors the value orientation and mode ofthinking, and guides people how to cognize and deal with matters.Based on understanding of “harmony”, lots of historical recordswere researched, at last, we found that harmonious thought in ancientChina is not only in the filed of humanities and social science, but also inthe filed of natural science. We can say harmonious thought is a kind ofexpression. Also it is an idea about development for human being himself. So we can research harmonious thought form four parts: nature;society;life; science and technology.Human are always curious about nature. During a long explorationprocess, ancient Chinese tried to explain creation and function of nature,and constantly summarized how to get along with nature better in dailylife. Such explanation and summary which contain harmonious interesthad been spread by books or word of mouth, and the view of nature withChinese characteristics was established. Ancient Chinese claimed thatnature is a harmonious system; everything was produced fromconsistency of Yin and Yang and the five elements. The view of naturewith Chinese characteristics is a logical dialectical materialism, because ittells us nature is unified substance and related substance. Based on suchview, to live together better was advocated by ancient Chinese, and it wasmade perfect with time. At last “nature and man” played a leading role inChinese traditional culture.Visions of society in ancient Chain can not break away from existingharmonious view of nature. Wonderful ideas were poured into vision ofsociety, Such as balance, orderly, stable, unified, smooth and so on. Thevision of society that was offered by Confucian, Taoists and Buddhismfor human differ from each other. If the one named Pure Land whichoffered by Buddhism is too wonderful to believe, and the one named asmall utopian society which offered by Taoists is too peaceful and gentle,than the one named great harmonic universe and well-to-do society whichoffered by Confucian is really near to life. It can make people to believethat it will become true some day. It is not only showing depth of humannature and height of politics. And what’s more, viable intensity ofeducation. All of these could do the best to guarantee society goes well.Everyone needs ideology to guide his life and to adjust his mood.Luckily, in the history of Chinese thought, although we can hear differentsounds about life, they studied from each other, and then formed view oflife with Chinese characteristics. Generally speaking, there are three ideasabout life. The first is to life with a centrist attitude. The Second is lifewith a natural attitude. The third is to life with an aloof attitude. Inancient China, they are powerful guiding, but the purpose of them is same, that is trying to make a harmonious life from values and methodology.Thanks to these, one could keep well when he is in troubles.The birth and development of technology is always in a certaincultural background. Chinese technology in ancient which was moreadvanced than others’ in same age was produced from Chinese traditionalculture. As the essence of Chinese culture, harmonious thought has greatinfluence on Chinese technology in ancient. It is a true. The brilliantachievements of Chinese medicine, architecture, agriculture and so onhave an important position in history of human civilization. Harmoniousthought was deeply embedded in these traditional technologies, and werespread until now. They are in our real life and trying to tell us the historyof harmonious thought, so they are living carriers of thought. It is notstubborn to think of traditional skills, on the contrary, it shows us thattraditional skills are bearing the initial dream of human. The fast mordenttechnologies develop, the farthest the dream away from. The importantthing is not to improve the speed of development, but to clear the reasonof development.Harmonious thought in ancient China is not only a timeless andsilent precious heritage, but also is a valuable resource which canenlighten us. To human being,“harmonious” is a dream forever, becauseof this, it is can be doomed that harmonious thought in ancient China willbe suspended and updated and inherited in history. From this point ofview, it offers courses of action from the microscopic and theoreticalbasis from the macroscopic. In new age, Chinese harmonious thought willtill play an important part in historical process of human scientificdevelopment.