修しゅう身しん斉せい家か治ち国こく平へい天てん下か

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cultivate oneself, regulate the family, govern the state, and bring peace to the world

A Confucian maxim from the Book of Rites (Da Xue) describing the sequential path from personal cultivation to world peace. Used as a proverb or classical reference.

• 「修しゅう身しん斉せい家か治ち国こく平へい天てん下か」は、儒じゅ教きょうの基き本ほん的てきな政せい治じ思し想そうを表あらわしている。

  "Cultivate oneself, regulate the family, govern the state, and bring peace to the world" expresses a fundamental political idea of Confucianism.