Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture

Sage

It refers to a person of consummate virtue. Sages were regarded by the ancient Chinese as having the highest level of character and integrity. They knew the way of heaven and the hearts of people, and could thus make rules and regulate human ethics. With their exemplary statements and behavior, they were paragons of virtue. But scholars have differe…

Banquet Music

This term referred originally to the music used by emperors, dukes and princes when they held rituals and feasts. Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, it had come to refer to various kinds of popular music played during feasting and entertainment at court. The term “banquet music” was first seen in The Rites of Zhou, at which time such music generall…

Zhen（Vibration）

Zhen is one of the eight trigrams. Its diagram is ☳. It is also one of the 64 trigrams and composed of two trigrams like this

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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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