change humanity by man-made

change humanity by man-made

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Hu à x à ngq à w à I, which means to change the innate nature and rise the acquired human. It comes from Xunzi, evil nature.

The origin of Idioms

Xunzi · xing'e: "therefore, the sage turns his nature into falsehood, falsehood leads to propriety and righteousness, propriety and righteousness lead to legalism."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or attributive; used in writing. Yang Xie's note: "the sage can change his nature, and rise to correct hypocrisy." According to the biography of CAI Yuanding in the history of Song Dynasty, "Liu Li, a scholar of Yuanding bamboo slips, said:" if you change your nature to make a fake, you will not be guilty! " In the near future, he was relegated to Daozhou. " In the source and development of literature, the Confucianists of Song Dynasty had a strong power to eliminate Xunzi's evil nature It teaches people to change their temperament first, and actually uses Xunzi's intention of transforming nature into counterfeiting. "