This term has a two-fold meaning. Firstly, it refers to the need to rid an essay of banal wording. Secondly, it encourages authors to discard mediocre, derivative ideas when writing. It is a term raised by the Tang Dynasty man of letters Han Yu (768-824) about prose writing. Han emphasized that essays should be written in an innovative way. He guard…
The greater seal script is a form in the evolution of Chinese characters. Standing in contrast to the lesser seal script, it has two meanings. The narrow meaning specifically refers to the pre-Qin script engraved on stones (zhouwen籀文), modeled after stone-drum script in the Kingdom of Qin during the Warring States Period. It features heavy strokes…
The term yilun (彝伦), which corresponds to constant relations, first appears in The Book of History. In Chinese antiquity, it was believed that the relations of human life followed certain constant laws or yilun, which were derived from the imitation of and compliance with the heavenly way, and thus reflected the authority of Heaven. Yilun regulate…
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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