Leonid Sergeevich Vasiliev. Ethics and ritual in traditional China (№ 451902)

Everyone must strictly know his place and the corresponding scope of rights and privileges, the number and nature of obligations. And not only to know, but also to be strictly guided by this, taking into account also the fact that everything in the world is in dynamic equilibrium, that is, it fluctuates depending on circumstances, conditions of time and place. But fluctuations are fluctuations, and the foundations are unshakable.