Zhu Xi read the word 'qin', meaning 'being affectionate,' as 'xin,' meaning 'new,' and interpreted 'xinmin' as 'renovating the people', meaning that a man of virtue, who has discoverd his own virtue, spread it to others and renewed them.
まず朱子は「親」を「新」と読み替え、「民を新たにす」（自分自身の明徳を明らかにした君子が、他者にまでそれを及ぼし革新する）という風に解した。