What is the golden mean and what is its essence?

The doctrine of the mean refers to an impartial and eclectic attitude towards life.

The golden mean is the avenue of life, and the fundamental theory of career success and life health basically includes three theories:

The first theory: neutrality and impartiality, mediocrity is not easy. It means not to deviate from one's life goals and opinions. This is a persistent road to success.

The second theory: refers to benevolence and peace. People need to maintain justice and peace. If they lose justice and peace, they must be too happy, angry, sad and happy. Only joy can cure anger, and it is not too polite to cure happiness. The way to be polite lies in respect. As long as we maintain a heart of respect or awe, justice and peace will always exist and people's health will be guaranteed.

The third layer of theory: refers to goodness and righteousness, common use and Chinese use. Refers to a person who has a skill and becomes a useful talent; It also means that people should stick to their posts and work in their posts.

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Introduction:

The Analects of Confucius is one of the classic works of Confucianism and a collection of recorded essays, which mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples in the form of quotations and dialogues, and embodies Confucius' political, aesthetic, moral and utilitarian values.

The Analects of Confucius covers politics, education, literature, philosophy and ways of living. As early as the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, when Confucius set up an altar to give lectures, its main contents were initially established.

After the death of Confucius, his disciples and re-disciples passed on his remarks from generation to generation, and gradually recorded the words and deeds of these oral quotations, so it was called "On"; The Analects of Confucius mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, so it is called "language".

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