Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture

Four Images

This term means the four images, or features of the four images, which are engendered through the division of the two modes in the process of the formation of the eight trigrams. As explained in The Book of Changes, “Changes involve taiji (太极 the supreme ultimate), which produces two modes. The two modes generate the four images, and the four ima…

Have a Complete Image of the Bamboo Before Drawing It / Have a Fully Formed Picture in the Mind’ Eye

This term means to have an image of the art in one’s mind prior to artistic creation. It describes the use of mental imagery in the course of artistic creation, and also sets a requirement for both artistic creation and for design in craftsmanship. For the creator of an artwork, concepts, feelings, intentions and objects should be integrated in the…

Music Conforming to Virtue

Music conforming to virtue reflects the standard of social morality and the high levels of people’s moral character. It is thus the ideal type of music for music education upheld by Confucianism. When the state was stable and orderly, sages established six different rhythms of huangzhong (黄钟), taicu (太簇), guxian (姑洗), ruibin (蕤宾), yize (夷则…

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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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