Abstract The “Humanity” expressed in the Xing-Zi-Ming-Chu text excavated at Guodian is paved on (human) nature, emotion and mind. The key to grasping the text is to heed the propositions that the “destiny” is the provenance of human nature and “heaven” is the source of the “destiny”. The text does not assert that “value” is derived directly from (human) “nature”, but that “value experience” comes from factors of the activity of the “nature” in concrete “emotion”; this activity is the origin of the “Humanity”. Probing deeper, according to the text, it is the implementation of “mental arts” that gives rise to the “Humanity” by the mind’ s concretely expressing the values of “nature” through the emotions. Therefore, we may infer that the text presents a human nature value perspective that explicates (human) nature and emotion on the basis of mind. For the text, the relevant contents of mind are to be reinforced through instruction in the Book of Odes, the Book of Documents, the Records of Rites and the Book of Music. The text regards this instruction as crucial to the formation of the moral order according to the standard of justice (yi).