This self-control and emotional restraint can be directly related to the cultural tradition of maintaining a "cool heart" (jai yen) and controlling or suppressing one's emotions for the benefit of a harmonious society – a concept children learn at an early age, but do not really master until they have matured.
Visit MAD Architects' website to find more harmonious structures and concepts.
The move away from traditional Marxist attitudes evolved from Hu's campaign for what he calls "a harmonious socialist society". The concept, in effect an appeal for good behavior, was designed to replace the moral void left when the party long ago jettisoned historical Chinese values and, more recently, loosened the zipped-tight social strictures of communism under Mao Zedong.
President Hu Jintao of China has made the Confucian concept of a harmonious society a cornerstone of his ruling ideology.
These contradictions are one reason Mr. Hu has promoted the amorphous concept of a "harmonious society" as a rhetorical tent encompassing policies intended to soothe, if not necessarily resolve, a range of tensions.
We hope to take advantage of the twenty-first Century Maritime Silk Road to disseminate China's cultural concept of "being harmonious but different" to Southeast Asia and even to other regions and nations around the world, in a bid to establish a mindset that values cultural symbiosis and creates "harmonious but different" cross-regional social systems.
Revision of the conservation-oriented zoning concept to a harmonious conservation-development zoning approach might be the only solution to retain part of the greenbelt (Lee & Kumata 1998).
At the largest scale, many of the dialogues have total numbers of lines that are multiples of 12. Dividing whole texts by 12, Kennedy found "positive concepts" in the dialogues coinciding with harmonious intervals of Pythagoras's scale, and negative concepts at dissonant intervals.
Rigor is obtained by combining Ernst Mach's principle of the economy of thought with the concept of harmony, that is, thanks to "the fortunate inventions of language" that introduce an order-structure, the complexity of a domain of objects is made more harmonious by the introduction of an invariance (see Poincaré 1908: 23 30; 1913b: 371–375).
Positive concepts are lodged at the harmonious third, fourth, sixth, eight and ninth "notes", which were considered to be most harmonious with the 12th; while negative concepts are found at the more dissonant fifth, seventh, 10th and 11th.
