Physical law lies in preserving the body, and vice versa. An exploration of the conception of integrity of knowledge and conduct in Chinese culture dissolves the issue of integrity of soul and flesh in Western philosophy. The original Confucian civilization of ceremony and music presented thoroughly the mode of physical law and principle of body preservation in which the soul, the flesh and the world are mutually sensible,which offers a corrction to the pre-modern partiality for the spirit of conventionality. The view of integrity of heaven and man in which the soul, the flesh and the world are all in aesthetic one means an alert to people in this age of consumption.

physical law; the flesh; physical body; resonation; original Confucianism; civilization of ceremony and music