Mencius said: “Favorable timing is not as good as favorable terrain. Favorable terrain is not as good as harmony among people.” In the original: 天时不如地利，地利不如人和.
The Song statesman Fan Zhongyan wrote in his Record of Yueyang Tower: “In the following year, the government ran smoothly and the people lived in harmony (政通人和), and all neglected tasks were taken up again.”