Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture

Exploit Favorable Situation to Pursue the Goal

In this concept, shi (势) means how things exist, change and evolve, which is objective and primary; and li (利) is the goal set by people, which is subjective and secondary. A goal should be reached through interactions between the objective and the subjective, not by imposing subjective desire on the objective. As the initiator of action, people m…

Charm of Spontaneity

This term means poetry creation should present the unembellished beauty of nature and the genuine sentiments of human beings. The original meaning of yingzhi (英旨) is good taste. Used as a literary term, however, it refers to charming content and aesthetic conception in poetry. In The Critique of Poetry, Zhong Rong（？-518？） of the Southern Dynas…

History

In ancient inscriptions on tortoise shells and ox scapula, together with inscriptions on ancient bronze objects, the pictographic Chinese character shi (史) represents a hand holding a writing brush or a hand holding a bamboo slip, referring to a court official in charge of keeping historical records. Explanation of Script and Elucidation of Charact…

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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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