"Man can conquer nature" is a theory of Xunzi, which was first put forward by Yin Jifu in the Western Zhou Dynasty. From the second chapter of the History of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty: "Bo Yang's father said:' Watching the dry elephant at night, the demon star hides the purple wall, the country has changed, and the king's body is not enough.' Yin Jifu said, "Heaven will conquer man, and man will conquer heaven." . But you talk about heaven and waste people. Where are the three officials and six ministers? "Say goodbye to each other."

"Man can conquer nature", an idiom in China, pinyin is Ré ndü ngshè ngtiā n. Broadly speaking, human beings can overcome and change nature through their own strength; In a narrow sense, everyone can change his own destiny. The key to human conquest of nature lies in the word "determination", which is broadly expressed as unity and cooperation; In a narrow sense, it is manifested in the stability of the people.

Xunzi (about 365438 BC+03 BC-238 BC), whose real name was Qing (called Qing when he said it), was a native of Zhao at the end of the Warring States Period, and was called "Sun Qing" in the Han Dynasty because he avoided the name of Emperor Gaozu. He was a famous thinker, philosopher and educator in the pre-Qin period, a representative of Confucianism and a master of a hundred schools of thought contending.

Xunzi summed up hundred schools of thought's theoretical achievements and his own academic thoughts, and founded a complete simple materialist philosophy system in the pre-Qin period. His thoughts had a subtle influence on the development of feudal society for more than two thousand years.