First of all, we should attach great importance to the significance of China's history and culture in building a harmonious society. No matter how people understand the meaning and standards of a harmonious society, from the perspective of history and culture, the concept of a harmonious society not only inherits the reasonable connotation of China traditional culture, but also gives it new significance of the times. China has a long history. In the course of thousands of years of social development, it has formed a unique cultural tradition, values and behavior norms. Today's China is the development of historical China. To build a harmonious socialist society, we should not ignore China's historical and cultural traditions, but build a harmonious society on the basis of China's history and culture. Only in this way can the construction of a harmonious society have a historical and cultural foundation, and the China characteristics of a harmonious society can be highlighted.
Secondly, we should understand the connotation of a harmonious society from the historical and cultural aspects of China. What is a harmonious society is often explained from a modern perspective. However, we should be soberly aware that since we are building a harmonious society on the basis of China's history and culture, it is an essential perspective to understand the connotation of a harmonious society from the perspective of traditional culture. "Harmony" is the core concept of China traditional culture and the important cultural connotation of a harmonious society. As a category of traditional philosophy, the golden mean includes two aspects: the golden mean and harmony. "China" refers to adopting the correct method, and "harmony" reflects the realization of the ideal goal. "The Doctrine of the Mean" said: "To achieve harmony, the status of Heaven is not good, and everything is nurtured." The so-called "persistent harmony" is to realize a beautiful ideal and achieve the best state of things development through the right methods. Therefore, a harmonious society should be a society in which all social elements are coordinated, the social structure is reasonable, the social operation is orderly, and all kinds of things in society have a good growth and development environment. Third, we should pay attention to many brilliant expositions and thoughts put forward by ancient thinkers in China on the establishment of an ideal society. In the history of China, there are many ideas of social harmony, such as the Confucian theory of "the world is public", the theory of "the world is one", the Taoist theory of "a small country with few people" and the theory of "the world is virtuous". They provide ideological resources for building a harmonious socialist society today from different aspects. In the final analysis, the problem of social harmony is the relationship between people, and the problem of interpersonal relationship is exactly what China traditional culture tries to solve, so the modern value of this part of China traditional culture is worth digging deeply. In the Confucian concept of harmonious society, man is the subject of social life and social harmony. Without human communication, social harmony is impossible. The relationship between man and nature is another important issue of social harmony. The Taoist thought of harmony between man and nature provides an ideal living space for a harmonious society. Laozi regards "a small country with few people" as his ideal of a harmonious society. In the harmonious society conceived by Zhuangzi, there are "the world of supreme virtue", "the country of Jiande" and "the world of supreme governance". In the ideal and harmonious society of Laozi and Zhuangzi, human cultural nature has also been fully deconstructed, leaving only human natural nature. The main purpose of life is to return to nature. People get rid of the fetters of all cultures, live in harmony with nature and blend in with everything. In this way, in the Taoist view, a harmonious society is the unity of man and nature, and it is man's obedience to nature. He regards self-consciousness as the root of disharmony, resulting in the opposition between himself and nature. This kind of harmony that cancels self-awareness and integrates things is not true harmony.