Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture

The Best Strategy in Warfare is to Foil the Enemy’s Strategy.

Foiling the enemy’s strategy is an important principle proposed by Sunzi the ancient military strategist. In his view, war is waged at different levels, all of which have a significant impact on the outcome. Armed attacks will do great damage to both sides, so they should be avoided if at all possible. Those who are good at leading armies should be…

Li (The Fire Symbol)

Li (离) is one of the eight trigrams, represented by the diagram ☲. It is also one of the 64 hexagrams and composed of two trigrams like this . Li symbolizes fire, which implies drying up all things. Since fire depends on combustible material to sp…

Constant Laws of Nature

It refers to the constant nature or regular pattern of natural laws. The ancient Chinese believed that phenomena in the universe and life in human society are governed by constant laws in their movement. People characterize these laws as being "constant" and sometimes call them "constant ways" or "constant principles." "Constant" is in contrast to "…

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: The purposes of the Project are to select the concepts in Chinese culture and thought that reflect the characteristics of the country's traditional culture and the Chinese people's way of thinking, and that embody the core values of China.
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