Said by: Huai Nan Zi, a philosophical work written collectively by Liu An, king of Huai Nan of the Western Han Dynasty and his disciples.

Original: Governing the country is regular and benefiting the people; Politics and religion have classics, which make behavior.

Meaning: there are unchangeable laws in governing the country, but the most fundamental thing is to make people profit; Political education also has a fixed model, but the most important thing is to make government decrees smooth.

Extended data:

Huai Nan Zi is a collection of essays written by Liu An, the king of Huainan, at the turn of Emperor Jing and Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. Liu An (BC 179 BC 122) was the son of Chang Lu, the youngest son of Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu.

Li, the king of Huainan, was convicted of "conspiracy" and died of hunger strike during his migration. After that, the fief of Li, the king of Huainan, was divided into three parts, and Liu An was made the king of Huainan. Liu Anzeng treat people dry, * * * book Huainanzi.

Among them, the inner part is 2 1 chapter, the outer part is 33 chapters, the middle part is 8 volumes, and the abstract is the preface of the whole book. Judging from the outline, the writing of the whole book has a unified plan and arrangement. But from the content point of view, it is not completely unified.

It is reasonable to list it as a "saint" in History of Han Arts and Literature. In addition to Taoism, the contents of the book also include Confucianism, Legalism and Yin and Yang.