What is the meaning of "Xiaokang"?
Pinyin: xiǎo kāng Comment: (1). A little bit of peace. Poetry - Daya - Minlao (《诗-大雅-民劳》):"Minlao also stops working, and the car can be slightly prosperous." Zheng Xuan 笺:"Kang,安也。 This week the people strike labor carry on, the king a few can be a small peace of it?" Tang Bai Juyi "old and sick still to poetry self-interpretation": "Yesterday because of the wind Gan long hair to, today meet the sun and small Kang." (2). The Confucian ideal of a society in which the government and religion are clear and the people are affluent and happy refers to the rule of Yu, Tang, Wen, Wu, King Cheng, and the Duke of Zhou. It is lower than the ideal of "commonwealth". See Rites of Passage, Records of Rites. Later, it refers to a peaceful and better socio-economic situation in the country. Jin Shu - Sun Chu Zhuan (《晋书-孙楚传》): "The mountains and hills are solid, and Zhongxia is well off." Zizhi Tongjian - After the Tang Dynasty Mingzong Changxing four years: "In the reign of the years of cereal repeated abundance, military and leather rarely used, school in the Five Dynasties, roughly for the well-being of the small." (3). Today it refers to the goal that China's socialist economic development is required to achieve in a specific period of time. Lookout, 1985, No. 37: "Deng Xiaoping said that after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, we explored how to develop socialism in China. In the final analysis, it was to develop the productive forces and gradually develop China's economy. The first step was to reach the level of moderately prosperous by the end of the century. From the end of 1979, when this goal was put forward, to the end of this century ...... to realize a quadrupling of the GNP, from US$250 to US$800 to US$1,000 on a per capita basis, including the factor of population increase." (4). The family has a little capital to live comfortably. Song Hong Mai, "Yijian A Zhi - Wulangjun":" 庠不能治生,贫悴落魄......然久困於穷,冀以小康。" Qing Pu Songling, "Liaozhai Zhiyi - Dingqianxi": "Yang sense not self, thus a small fortune, do not care about the old business carry on." The Fifteenth Episode of The Outer History of the Confucian Forests: "If you get this 'silver mother', your family will be able to get by." Yu Dafu, "Late Gui Hua": "Although my family is not rich, it is a well-off family." (5). Form refers to the economic situation of the family can maintain a medium level of life: family road ~ | ~ people Above from the Commercial Press Modern Chinese Dictionary [编辑本段]小康的来由 "小康 "一词,古代***有三种解释。 First, as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, the term Xiaokang has appeared. "Poetry" on the "Daya - people labor" in the "people also labor stop, car can be well-off" sentence. Here, Xiaokang is the meaning of a more stable life. Second, Confucianism than the "cosmopolitan" idea of a lower level of society called Xiaokang. The Book of Rites - The Rites of Passage says, "Now that the Great Way is hidden, the world is a family. Each person has his own relatives, each person has his own children, and each person's goods are his own. The great men of the world and the nobles (hereditary) were held together by rites, and the cities and towns were held together by ditches and pools. Rites and righteousness are for discipline, so as to correct the ruler and ministers, to be faithful to father and son, to be harmonious with brothers, to be harmonious with husband and wife, to set up a system, and to set up (set up) the fields and miles ...... is called Xiaokang." What is depicted here is the prosperous world that emerged under the governance of Xia Yu, Shang Tang, and the Zhou Dynasty's King Wen, King Wu, King Cheng, and the Duke of Zhou. Thirdly, it refers to a relatively well-off family economy. For example, Hong Mai of the Song Dynasty wrote Yijian Zhi, Volume 1, which has the words "(Liu) itch ...... long stuck in poverty, hoping to be well off". (The material is taken from "Applied Writing" magazine, Issue 9, 2003, Writing Miscellany Column)