Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture

Practice in Person

This term first appeared in The Analects. Gong (躬) means in person and xing (行) refers to the cultivation of morals. According to Confucianism, one should cultivate his morals in everyday life to develop personal integrity. This term embodies the view that knowledge and action should be closely integrated with each other. Confucianism is against t…

Cultivating Qi

This term suggests cultivating one’s moral spirit and improving one’s physical and mental well-being to achieve the best state of mind in order to write excellent works. “Cultivating qi (气)” has three implications: 1) in the pre-Qin period Mencius (372?-289 BC) emphasized that the virtuous and the capable should foster a “noble spirit” cond…

Nothing That Disappears Fails to Reappear.

This concept stems from The Book of Changes. “Disappearance and reappearance”signifies the cycle of departure and return pertaining to a journey, but is also extended to the abstract meaning of disappearance and reappearance of things or states of things. In the hexagram context of The Book of Changes, tai (泰) hexagram has qian (乾heaven) at the …

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: 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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