Tiānxià wéi gōng.*

天下為公。

Lit [Everything] under heaven is public [business].

Fig The world (and political power) belongs to everyone. Everyone should be concerned with public affairs.

Note [Originally a line from the Confucian Lǐjì (Book of Rites): Lǐ Yùn; later quoted by Sun Yatsen as a slogan expressing his concept of mínquán, “people's rights”; this is sometimes presented as a chengyu.]

Topics Book of Rites chengyu GOVERNMENT Lǐjì Lǐ Yùn mínquán POLITICS POWER PUBLIC Sun Yatsen tiānxià-wéigōng