Gao Yao (Xia Dynasty)

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Gao Yao (simplified Chinese: 皋陶; traditional Chinese: 臯陶; pinyin: Gao Yao; Wade-Giles: Kao Yao, lived in the 21st century BCE) was a political advisor of the Yu the Great in China during the Xia Dynasty. His son was Bo Yi (伯益).

He is cited admonishingly saying to his king: "[The] Heaven can see and hear, and does so through the eyes and ears of the people; Heaven rewards the virtuous and punishes the wicked, and does it through the people."[1] This admonition does not promote a democratic idea, as some Taiwanese politicians say. It conforms to the Confucian principle of humane actions.

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  1. ^ http://taiwanreview.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=151&CtNode=119 «New Vitality from Cultural Regeneration», Taiwan Review, Vol.57, No.12, Dec. 2007


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