On Dongzhongshu Harmonious Concept

The harmony is one of the key value standards of the Confucianism, and also is the highest value tropism of Chinese traditional culture. Dong Zhong-shu, regarded as the head of Confucianism, integrated diversiform thoughts of earlier Chin and reconstructed the operation models of harmony society as his own manner. With great political influence, his harmony theory had been impenetrate in peoples' political life, and established a deep theory and practice foundation for the stability and development of Chinese traditional society.Dong Zhong-shu presented an opinion of dismissing other thinking and only canonizing Confucianism, and also provided a series of state managing and safeguarding theories for west HAN dynasty. From the view point of interpersonal harmonious, to expatiate these precious culture sources the foundation of Dong Zhong-shu's interpersonal harmonious theory has been briefly cast back. After an analyzing of the foundation of theology and human and the combination of human and nature, the rationality of emperor's authority, the foundation of society rank and moral standard have been shown. And the humanity theory of either goodness or wickedness emphasized the necessity of humanizing populace by sage. Then, types of interpersonal harmonious and moral rules are presented. The interpersonal harmonious can mainly divide into the ruler-minister relationship and the blood relationship. Thus with the god's restricting, it requires that the emperors should love and appease the people, also the people and ministers should cleave and dedicate to the emperor. In a family, sons are dutiful for parents and wives perform responsibility to maintenance the feudalism governs. Thirdly, the interpersonal harmonious methods such as humanity duty otherselves, etiquette limited, to have humanity also wisdom, loyalty and honesty have been discussed. Finally, the flaw and the modem value of Dong Zhong-shu's interpersonal harmonious theory are discussed. Dong Zhong-shu's interpersonal harmonious theory has one side which serves for the feudal hierarchy, unavoidably it has the time limitation. Therefore, we should study it with a historical and scientific attitude, and inherit its reasonable content critically. Regardless of person's self-perfection, the construction of socialism harmonious society, or the promoting nationality's fusion, all these are playing the positive role.