The Book of Great Harmony consists of 30 volumes, with about 200,000 words. It is divided into 65,438+00 parts, part A, the audience suffering from the world, part B, the ethnic group, part D, the ethnic group, and part E and part B, the ethnic group.
With the spirit of democracy and equality and certain socialist fantasy, Kang outlined a beautiful picture of the future society of mankind-the blueprint of the Great Harmony World, which has progressive significance and far-reaching influence. Liang Qichao summed up the contents of Datong Book in the Academic Introduction of Qing Dynasty as follows:
1. There is no country, but there is a general government in the world, which is divided into several regions.
2. The general government and the district government are elected by the people.
3. Without a family, men and women must live together for no more than one year, and the term must be changed.
4. Pregnant women enter the prenatal education center, and the born children enter the nursery.
Every year, children enter nursing homes and schools at all levels.
6. When they come of age, the government will assign them to engage in agricultural and industrial production.
7. Go to a nursing home if you are sick, and go to a nursing home when you are old.
8. Institutions and facilities such as prenatal education, baby care, foster care, recuperation and old-age care in each district are the highest, and those who enter the park enjoy the highest.
9. Adult men and women must serve in these hospitals for several years, if they serve in this life.
10. Set up public dormitories and public canteens, with equal wages, and everyone can enjoy them freely according to their work.
1 1. The laziness of the police is the most severe punishment.
12. There are new inventors academically who have made special achievements in five hospitals, including prenatal education, and will receive special awards.
13. cremated after death, and the crematorium is next to the fertilizer plant.
Although Kang Youwei put forward many original and incisive ideas in The Book of Great Harmony, which made him shine brilliantly in the history of modern thoughts in China, his unique ideas could only become utopian fantasies due to the social conditions at that time and the limitations of Kang's insistence on improvement in political practice. As Mao Zedong pointed out, "Kang Youwei wrote the Book of Great Harmony. He didn't and couldn't find the way to Datong. "