英文摘要
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The concept of "yin-xun" (following, 因循) is a great concern in the employment of Dao for the pre-Qin Daoists, and therefore there is an abundant description about it in Huai-Nan-Zi, as we know, which is an important collection of pre-Qin Daoism. The article tries first to discuss the possible explanations of "yin-xun" in Huai-Nan-Zi, and then we can find that there are at least three dimensions of it to discuss. First, "yin-xun" means to get the greatest political efficiency by making good use of the characteristics and conditions; the former especially points to the official and the ruled people's temperament and their likes and dislikes. The latter includes the situations of time, space, talent, etc, and the talent is particularly very important. Second, "yin-xun" is the main principle of ruling in the condition of future and tide, so the ruler has to adjust and react to the situations with good flexibility. At last, the third aspect is about one's cultivation of "keep (ing) the nature and put (ting) away the wisdom," which is much related to the political behaviors we mentioned above.
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