It is the first step that is troublesome.

The meaning of Fortress Besieged initially rises from the issues of love and marriage, and then is analogized to all the things of human life.

“围城”最初源自婚恋的含义,再推及人生万事。

,but also developed and revised them as: "the mind is the source of every matter and everything","The dynamic and the static are interdependent" and "Taking nature as the supreme principle".

他不但继承了陈白沙的学说,亦修正和发展了陈白沙的学说,把陈白沙的“心具万理万物”、“虚明静一”、“以自然为宗”的理论,修正、发展成为“万事万物莫非心”、“动静一心”、“以自然为至”。