Only one's allotted destiny brings permanence: But the Chinese have transferred the notion of fate to human relationships, and the fate or allotted destiny of which they speak today fits in perfectly with the philosophical viewpoint of Chinese Confucianism.
而中國人把緣移到人際關係，也就是現今我們常用的「緣分」，亦是十足中國儒家的哲學觀。