Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture

Qian(The Heaven Symbol)

One of the eight trigrams, it consists of three yang lines: ☰. It is also one of the 64 hexagrams when it consists of six yang lines: . According to scholars on The Book of Changes, as the qian trigram is composed only o…

Character Endowed by Qi (Vital Force)

The moral characters of humans endowed or influenced by qi (气) stand in contrast with “characters endowed by Heaven” or “characters endowed by Heaven and Earth.” The term encompasses two meanings. First, it refers to the specific disposition of a person under the influence of qi, such as firmness and gentleness, patience and impatience, and wi…

The Origin of Human Culture

This term aims to explain how human culture arose. It stands in contrast to what is known as “heaven’s ways” or “earth’s ways,” the former referring to laws governing the movement and change of heavenly bodies and weather, while the latter to that of topographic features and directions of mountains and rivers. Since humans came into being with…

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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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