Good reputation is spread through writing, as is great accomplishment. Here, both teng (腾) and fei (飞) stand for “soar high” and “spread far.” Sheng (声) alludes to “fame achieved through virtue,” while shi (实) refers to “accomplishment, especially that made by pursuing the correct way.” Liu Xie (465?-520? or 532?) of the Southern Dyna…
The term means to understand how we should conduct ourselves through our contact with things. “Studying things to acquire knowledge” comes from The Great Learning, a section of The Book of Rites. Together with “being sincere in thought,” “rectifying one’s mind,” “cultivating oneself,” “regulating one’s family well,” “governing the state…
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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