Originally, this term referred to universal ways and the texts in which they are recorded. Later, it came to refer to written texts that set standards. Jing (经) here describes the warp yarns on a loom. Because warp yarns have to be steady for the weft to go through and thus create a woven fabric, it has come to signify underlying norms. Subsequentl…
First formulated by Wu Qi (440?-381 BC), a far-famed statesman and military strategist of the Warring States Period, the concept refers to either armed forces fighting for justice or morally justified wars. In this context, yi (义) specifically means “forbidding violence and eliminating chaos,” denoting acts generally regarded as righteous. As an…
“Designation” is the provisional naming that refers to things that lack any intrinsic nature. In Buddhism, some schools argue that nothing in the universe exists. The reason why things appear to be different from each other is that as soon as they are designated by different names, what the names refer to are mistaken as the distinctive objects t…
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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