The mother country is the country where your parents are or came from, or where you were born and belong to; it is your homeland; it mostly refers to your own country and motherland, which is similar to sangzi (桑梓 native place). This name connotes the natural emotion of intertwining the sense of community based on kinship and geography with the lo…
This term refers to sounds produced by all things in nature between heaven and earth. Zhuangzi (369?-286 BC) divided sounds into three categories: “human sounds,” “terrestrial sounds,” and “celestial sounds.” According to him, “human sounds” refer to sounds made by a vertical bamboo flute when a person blows air into its top end. “Terrestr…
This term encapsulates the notion of the cyclical disappearance and reappearance of things or states. Primarily, “disappearance and reappearance” signifies the cycle of departure and return pertaining to a journey. Ancient Chinese scholars expanded upon this concept, applying it abstractly to represent the dual mechanisms of transformation in thin…
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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