The idea can be seen as early as 1946 in the poem that has already been quoted, where he sees Chung and Hsi; China and Europe, as symphonies with the same basic melodies but with different scores. The same poem finishes with a quote from The Book of Rites that, "All under Heaven shall be One Community."
他這樣的想法早在一九四六年發表的一首詩裡，已然出現，此後一生的投入，毋寧是步步求證的工作。他在詩中表示，中與西，中國與歐洲，是在相同的旋律上，譜寫出不同的交響曲罷了；詩的最後一段則引用了禮記的「天下大同」作結。