This concept refers to the outcomes of events that have different impacts on individuals, where positive outcomes are considered auspicious and negative outcomes are regarded as inauspicious. This classification is also applied to things that may lead to good or harmful results, or things that are good or harmful in nature. For example, weddings are…
This term refers to the name of a period given by the ruling emperor to indicate and record the years of his period of rule in ancient China. When a new emperor ascended the throne, he would replace the reign title of his predecessor with a new one so as to mark the beginning of a new era. This practice started by Liu Che (156-87 BC), Emperor Wu of…
The term means the primal source from which all things originate, both animate and inanimate, including human beings. Yuan (元) manifests itself in different forms. In the Han Dynasty, it was considered a kind of primal physical material that both produced and made up the myriad things of the world. The Book of Changes divides yuan into two primal s…
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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