The Relationship and Difference between the Symbols of "Virtue" and "Empathy"

"Bide" simply means comparing the characteristics of natural objects such as mountains and rivers, flowers and birds, symbolizing people's moral personality, and comparing the natural attributes of natural objects with people's social attributes. Tracing back to the source, the theory of "Bide" comes from the thinking of taking images in Zhouyi and the application and extension of "Bixing" in the Book of Songs. It was first put forward by Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, in The Analects of Confucius, and Xunzi was named in Xunzi Faxing. Since then, it has been supplemented, developed and perfected by post-Confucian scholars for more than two thousand years, even in Confucianism. The theory of "Bide" and Confucianism have influenced people's aesthetic concept of natural landscape, the overall appearance of landscape poetry and painting, and elegant and popular culture for more than 2,000 years. According to the ancients. ...