Great Unity

Great Unity
Chinese name
Chinese大同
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyindàtóng
Bopomofoㄉㄚˋㄊㄨㄥˊ
Wade–Gilesta4t'ung2
Tongyong Pinyindàtóng
Wu
Romanizationda don
Hakka
Romanizationtai55 tung11
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingdaai6 tung4
Southern Min
Hokkien POJtāi-tông
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetĐại đồng
Hán-Nôm大同
Korean name
Hangul대동
Hanja大同
Transcriptions
Revised Romanizationdaedong
McCune–Reischauertaedong
Japanese name
Kanji大同
Kanaだいどう
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburndaidō

The Great Unity (Chinese: 大同; pinyin: dàtóng) is a Chinese vision of the world explicitly based on the past period of "three dynasties"[1] as understood by the Confucian tradition. In this ideal historical model, everyone and everything was at peace and this model must be restored. It is found in classical Chinese philosophy as a model based on the past but beginning with Kang Youwei (1858 – 1927) it was often combined with utopian ideas.[2]

  1. ^ The Book of Rites: Li Yun (Chinese and English, James Legge's 1885 translation) - Chinese Text Project
  2. ^ Wang, Ralph (September 12, 2017). "Great Unity". Kid Spirit. Vol. 10, no. 1. Archived from the original on March 12, 2021.

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