While our world is facing various challenges and great difficulties, what can we learn and borrow from the history, tradition and culture? Many potential ways and resources have been indicated and provided by different countries and philosophies. However, this paper focuses on the insight and wisdom from Chinese philosophy and culture.

1、 The Unity between Sky and Earth  (天人合一)

The idea on the unity of Humanity and Heaven (the Nature) is one of the key points of Chinese culture. Now our entire world is facing the sharp contradiction between human being and Nature. Various challenges, such as environment pollution, weather problems, different natural disasters and so on, are inceasingly threatening the safety of our world and gradually damaging the existence of Human beings. Superficially, it seems that they are created and induced by nature itself. However, in fact many of them are man-made disasters, or at least the side effects of human behaviors. From the guiding idea, this results from the absolute rationalism. Concerning these emergencies, the basic topic of Chinese philosophy is to find out the possible ways to achieve the unity between human beings and nature, to harmonize Sky and Earth. Chinese philosophers always stressed that nature is not the slave of human beings but the equal companion of human life. Man should stay with the nature on good terms. Human beings should respect and protect nature. To protect nature is to protect the necessary environment of human life. To potect nature is to protect and care about human beings themselves. This is not just for single individual, single country or single nationality, but for the planet and the human civilization as a whole. This is not just for sole generation, but for generation after generation in the future. In this sense, we might say that it is Chinese intelligence, which has sustained for thousands of years, that realizes the theory of ecological protection.

2、 The Mean or the Golden Rule （中庸之道）

The Mean (Zhong Yong, also be called as Golden Rule) is one of the most important perspectives and approaches in Chinese Philosophy. In the daily life, people always un-consciously tend to be involved in a model of thinking featuring of binary opposition, such as good or bad, god or evil, truth or false, friend orenemy, and so on. However, in fact the real world is extremely complex and comprehensive, which requires a more comprehensive view of world and a wiser way of thinking. The Mean or the Golden Rule is one of the wisest principles of thinking embodied in Chinese philosophy. The Mean, as well as “the Impartiality”, “the golden mean” or “the doctrine of the mean”, indicates to give up the two extremes opposed in the spectrum, but to hold the middle one. From the epistemological angle, it never mean to master an object in a comprehensive and perfect viewpoint, but to avoid any kind of extreme, excessive and partiality. In the social life, it insists that people should sustain their own right judgments for the complex things and reserve the abilities to keep their adequate positions, no matter what others are saying or doing. The Mean is also an important methodology for people to handle those complex matters more suitable and wisely.

3、 Collectivist Spirit and Family Values  (团队精神和家庭价值)

No matter in which society, how to deal well with the relationship between individuals and collective is the most fundamental problem. There is such a long and strange tradition of individualism in the West. It asks for paying most attention to the needs, positions and functions of individuals, as well as passionately encourages the individual development and freedom. It has played an important role in the development of Western civilization, while also has caused so many serious problems and difficulties since then. Now we should learn more from the Collectivism in Chinese philosophy and culture. In Chinese philosophy, an individual is one cell of the whole society. In this sense, every cell can realize its nature and function when becoming an organized part of certain organization. Society is composed and organized by Individuals but has more functions and common needs than every single individual. In the society, such an organized organism, all individuals inseparably rely on each other. So they should learn to respect each other, understand each other, help each other, cooperate with each other, and even more. The society as a whole should be a united integration featuring of Co-laboring, co-living, co-existing and co-sharing.

4、 Social Harmony （社会和谐）

Approaching the harmony among all the people and building a harmony society, constitutes the historical aspiration of Chinese people. Chinese philosophy emphasizes that people should stay on friendly terms, as well as avoid irrational conflicts and injustice wars. It insists that people should respect and help each other. The harmonious relationship is based on the common understanding of virtues. The rulers should treat their people kindly and considerately as if they treat their own children. To show the respect to the old and to protect youth have been regarded as the basic virtues for Chinese from ancient China. In today’s human life, the traditional Chinese virtues, such as diligence and filial piety, have their contemporary meanings for the new era, and should become the intrinsic content of Marxist ethics.