How to Understand the School Motto "Health, Responsibility and Harmony"

The etymology and concepts of 1) "He" and "He" can be found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions on bronze. Harmony, in terms of meaning itself, "harmony" means harmony, tranquility and harmony; "Combination" means combination, cooperation and integration. "Harmony" is the way to achieve "harmony", the ideal realization of "harmony", and the ideal relationship between nature, society, interpersonal relationship, body and mind, civilization and many other factors that human beings have been fighting for since ancient times. The consciousness of attaching importance to and advocating harmony in China's traditional culture is manifested in two aspects: first, "harmony between man and nature" refers to the harmony between man and nature; The second is the "golden mean", which refers to interpersonal relationships, that is, the harmony between people and society. "The unity of man and nature" aims at recognizing the unity of man and nature and opposing their separation. The "golden mean" emphasizes a degree in dealing with the relationship between things to avoid opposition and conflict. Advocating the harmonious consciousness of "harmony is the most important" and "China is the most important" is conducive to dealing with various contradictions in modern society and maintaining social stability. In China, the idea of pursuing social harmony based on profound and harmonious culture has a long history. Laozi put forward that "all things are negative and embrace yang, and they rush to think that they are harmonious" (Chapter 42 of Laozi), arguing that Tao contains two opposing aspects of yin and yang, and everything contains yin and yang, and yin and yang interact to form and merge. This is the essence of all things in the universe and the foundation of the existence of all things in heaven and earth. The Analects of Confucius: "Harmony is the most important thing in courtesy." Harmony is the most important thing, and it is the highest state of doing things. Other pre-Qin philosophers such as Mozi, Guanzi and Xunzi also discussed "harmony" or "harmony". The concept of "harmony" was basically formed in the pre-Qin period. With the formation of the concept of "harmony", China's primitive culture, after a hundred schools of thought contended, gradually formed two prominent schools of Confucianism and Taoism, and accepted the Indian primitive Buddhist culture that advocated "harmony by reason" and "harmony without difference" in the Han Dynasty. The theory of causal harmony has become an important theory of Buddhism and has also had an important influence in history. Since then, the concept of "harmony" has been widely used by Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism in China's traditional culture and has become the core concept of its own purpose. At the same time, it is also widely accepted and widely used by thinkers of other cultural schools. In the Western Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu put forward the idea of "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" in order to meet the needs of the development of "unified Du Hui". In fact, he took Confucianism as the standard, accepted Taoism, law, Yin and Yang and other ideas, and advocated the combination of etiquette and law, which was obviously influenced by Yanqi culture. Mr. Qian Mu said: People in China often hold a great ideal of harmony between man and nature, and feel that all novel and fresh things in the outside world can be integrated and coordinated. This is one of the most important features of China's cultural spirit: cultural conflicts are only temporary changes, and it is common to ask for reconciliation. People think that western culture seems to be more conflicted, while China culture is more conciliatory. The greatness of China's culture lies in that it can best reconcile, so that all parties to the conflict can tolerate, coexist and adjust to each other. The love of westerners is close to his sexual desire, while the love of China is also close to his sexual desire. Paying attention to harmony is the characteristic of China culture and even China people.