The expression is from Xunzi (313?-238BC). It aims to raise the status of social norms so that they can fully exert their role. Xunzi believed that social norms regulate human behavior and are a yardstick for judging right and wrong, and they underpin the governance of a country. Humans by nature seek external desires, and do not have the inherent …
This refers to various human emotions and desires. The term “seven emotions” comes from The Book of Rites, referring to happiness, anger, sadness, fear, love, hatred, and desire. The term “six desires” first appeared in Master Lü’s Spring and Autumn Annals, referring to human desire for life, desire against death, and the desires of human orga…
This is one of the traditional Chinese music notation methods. In the Ming and Qing dynasties it was named Gong-che notation, which was derived from the informal-character notation of the banquet music in the Tang Dynasty and the simplified-character notation in the Song and Yuan dynasties, with ten Chinese characters such as gong (工) and che (尺) …
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