——"Jointly Creating a Better Future for Asia and the World: Keynote Speech at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2013" and other articles

■Interpretation

In the long history of human civilization, all countries have found their own "ways to get along" with the world, and various regions have also formed many good experiences and good practices in maintaining stability and promoting development. This is the wealth accumulated by all mankind, inherited and carried forward, which can provide a good mirror for the future world. However, we must also see that everything in the world is constantly changing; The history is long, and it is reluctant to give up day and night. The situation is developing, and the times are advancing. If you want to keep up with the times, you can't physically enter the 21st century while your mind is still stuck in the past. The old era of the Cold War mentality and zero-sum game has passed, and only by abandoning outdated old concepts and breaking through the old frame that restricts development can all kinds of development vitality fully burst out. In this speech, Comrade Xi Jinping also pointed out that Asia has always had the vitality of self-transformation and has the courage to become the trendsetter of the times, so that Asia's transformation and world development can promote and complement each other, which can provide inexhaustible impetus for promoting common development.

■Original text

Literature says: "The wise change with the times, and the wise make with the world." Confucius said: 'Ma crown, etiquette, now also pure, thrifty, I follow the crowd. Therefore, the sages and sages do not deviate from the ancients, and they are not biased. ”

——(Western Han Dynasty) Huan Kuan, "Salt and Iron: The Twelfth Worrying Side"

■Definition

"The wise change with the times, and the knowers make it with things" comes from Huan Kuan's "Treatise on Salt and Iron", and the "made with the world" in the original text is used as "made with things".

In the sixth year of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty (81 BC), the government of the Western Han Dynasty convened the Salt and Iron Conference. Hou Huan Kuan deduced and compiled sixty articles of "Salt and Iron Treatise" according to the records of the Salt and Iron Conference. The book recounts the debates between the imperial historian Sang Hongyang and virtuous literary figures gathered from all over the country on the issues of salt and iron official camps, equal losses, and leveling. At this meeting, the national liquor monopoly and the Kannai iron official system were abolished at that time, and the economic control policy of the Han Wu Emperor era was ended; At the same time, the confluence of Confucianism and law in the early Han Dynasty was terminated ideologically, and the tradition of pre-Qin Confucius and Mencian thought was restored.

"Those who know change with the times, and those who know make things with the world" is the political proposition of virtuous literary people. Among them, "knowledge" leads to "wisdom". It means that wise people will change their strategies as the times change, and wise people will make laws according to the changing circumstances of the world. This sentence emphasizes the importance and necessity of "change", advocates keeping pace with the times, actively making appropriate adjustments according to the requirements of the development of the times, and opposes sticking to the old ways. It should be pointed out that because Huan Kuan is biased towards Confucianism, he agrees with the ideas of virtuous literary figures, and has many derogatory remarks about Sang Hongyang, a representative figure of Legalism, and cannot maintain an objective position. However, "Treatise on Salt and Iron" is still an important historical material for the study of the economic and political history of the Western Han Dynasty.