Professor Yeh Chi-cheng of Taiwan University's Sociology Department believes that for Chinese people, fate is a system for explaining human beings 'relationship with the universe, and allows one to glimpse a special facet of Chinese culture: humanity's position is one of co-existence with and tolerance of nature, and not of one-sided subjugation and possession.
台大社會系教授葉啟政認為，緣對中國人而言，是一套人與萬物間關係的詮譯體系，剔透出中國文化的特殊性，在人的位置上，對萬物採取共生相容的態度，而非單向的征服、擁有。