And thus can be kings over the valley streams.

Thus the sage rejects the excessive, the extravagant, the extreme."

Perhaps Confucius could elicit useful advices to the emperor to settle these governing problems. According to historical evidence, Kong Qiu was one of the most crucial and influential philosopher in Chinese ancient history. He was perhaps the first private thinker in China and had created a school of Confucius. He was born in the Eastern Zhou dynasty, where government was still unstable and non-unified. This political situation had evoked many philosophical thinking, including Confucius. In the thinking of Confucius, he was focused on Dao, which define the truths about the universe and human nature. His whole theory was mainly categorized by three major moral codes: benevolence, filial piety, and rites. His studies seemed to be focusing on the aspects of human relationship. Therefore, his ideas also had applied on how to govern a state, since politics is a complicated form of human relationship. His thinking of using family as a model of state was crucial and conservative. His ideas for how to govern a state were also based on these codes. From his point of view, following social order ranking is like following the Mandate of Heaven. Confucius said, "Let a father to be a father, a son to be a son, a subject to be a subject." He suggested that Heaven has planned everything in advance; therefore, everything on earth should follow this pattern of life and be responsible for their duties. And a good ruler should also have this kind of virtue when governing the state. "The noble person has three objects of awe: he is in awe of the ordinances of Heaven (tianming); he is in awe of he great man; and he is awe of the words of the sages. The small man, not knowing the ordinances of Heaven, is not in awe of them; he is disrespectful toward great men; and he ridicules the words of the sages." Therefore, a noble person must follow and understanding Mandate of heaven, and should not deny the truth of its existence, and more importantly he should show respect to the past.

From this text of Daodejing, Lao Zi claimed that water is flexible and soft, so even the huge and heavy object like mountain and land also are surrounded by water. And if think in a biological perspective, isn't human also made with water? The weakness of water is the strength of it, and its strength can last long. When facing the problem of conflicts between people or any creatures on earth, the above example can act like a metaphor which explains fighting desperately for something will not make you have it, but will make you losing it. In contrast, remain still and to be submissive will make you calm and everything will come to you.

And because he contends with no one,

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