Cultural China: "All people are my brothers and sisters"


Winter is comingAn aerial view of the National Speed Skating Oval, also known as the ‘Ice Ribbon’, the venue for speed skating events at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games. The ‘curse’ of Olympic overspending looks set to strike again at the Beijing Games, with stringent Covid-19 measures and loss of ticket sales pushing up the cost of hosting the Winter Olympics. — AFP

BEIJING: "All people are my brothers and sisters, and all things are my companions" reflects typical Confucianism in China.

This idea was first put forward by Zhang Zai (1020-1077) of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), who held that people and things are all created by the vital force of heaven and earth, and thus have the same nature.

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