This term means high aspiration and moral principles. Aspiration refers to the powerful innate drives such as beliefs and courage that underpin one’s ambition and enables its realization, whereas moral principles guard and sustain one’s moral and righteous behavior. Today, the term in a general sense means to uphold justice as well as an undaunted…
When feelings surge up in people's hearts due to inspiration from external objects, they will find expression in poetry and music. This is stated in “Introductions to Mao’s Version of The Book of Songs,” echoing the idea that “poetry expresses aspirations” documented in The Book of History. In pre-Qin China, poetry, music and dance were all clo…
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 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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