This refers to the concept of the five basic elements, each in turn giving rise to the next. The five basic elements are: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. All things in the world are composed of these five elements or possess their properties. According to this concept, wood produces fire; fire produces earth; earth produces metal; metal produc…
This term refers to natural, unadorned beauty. “Pure” means untainted, unadulterated or containing no impurity. Su (素) originally means “undyed raw silk.” Later it came to mean“ the quality of being white, authentic, unspoiled or undecorated.” Daoist thought, represented by Laozi and Zhuangzi (369?-286 BC), held that Dao is the ultimate orig…
This refers to prejudice a person has developed towards a particular person or thing. The concept is from Zhuangzi. The author Zhuangzi (369?-286 BC) believed that people will develop biased views about other people or things when they only look at other people or things from their own perspectives. Such bias caused by different points of view or 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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