China’s Festivals Xinhuanet 2003-02-26 17:46:56 Spring Festival | Lantern Festival | Qingming | Lantern Festival | Mid-Autumn Festival | National Day | Spring Festival The most important festival in China is the Spring Festival. It is said that the Spring Festival evolved from an activity known as the Winter Sacrifice. It was a custom practiced by the people of primitive society. The Spring Festival marks the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year‚so the first meal is
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with the Tao. The Tao is a fundamental idea in most Chinese schools; in Taoism‚ however‚ it denotes the principle that is both the source‚ pattern and substance of everything that exsists. Confucianism is the philosophy based on the teachings of Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)‚ who was an important Chinese Philosopher. Confucianism has a complete system of moral‚ social‚ political‚ and religious thought‚ and has had a large influence on the history of Chinese Civilization. However‚ there remains some
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REL/133 NOTES CHAPTER 1 agnosticism: “Not know” (Greek); a position asserting that the existence of God cannot be proven. animism: From the Latin anima‚ meaning “spirit‚” “soul‚” “life force”; a worldview common among oral religions (religions with no written scriptures) that sees all elements of nature as being filled with spirit or spirits. atheism: “Not God” (Greek); a position asserting that there is no God or gods. deconstruction: A technique‚ pioneered by Jacques Derrida
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Chinese MYTHOLOGY A TO Z Jeremy Roberts Chinese Mythology A to Z Copyright © 2004 by Jim DeFelice All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means‚ electronic or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ or by any information storage or retrieval systems‚ without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact: Facts On File‚ Inc. 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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As we continue to discover and invent new technologies and sciences‚ people have progressively become mentally confined and have lost the ability to individually think and analyze. A particularly deleterious trend that has been plaguing our society is the decline of questioning and analysis of our world – what we hear‚ what we see‚ what we learn‚ etc. The American populace is thinking and analyzing less; they are now used to having the media feed them not only current information and news‚ but also
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complex rituals‚ and revealed scriptures in classical Chinese"(The Encyclopedia of Religion volume 3 1993 Macmillan Publishing Company New York‚ NY pg. 272). Taoism as a philosophy appears in two books‚ the Lao-tzu which was later renamed Too Te Ching‚ and there was Chuang-tzu. The
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The quote I chose for Siddhartha Gautama is “A wise man‚ recognizing that the world is but an illusion‚ does not act as if it is real‚ so he escapes the suffering.” I chose this quote for him because he was born to a mother who was part of the tribal ancestry and a father who was a wealthy king. He had the means to live a life of luxury; however he instead devoted his life to understanding balance and suffering. Though he didn’t have to live the effects of the suffering of humans‚ he always set
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Taoism and Confucianism‚ respectively‚ while their fellow poet T’ao Ch’ien expressed both‚ through their poetry. Confucianism is based on the ideas of Confucius‚ the man who gave the school of thought its name. The main goal of Confucianists was to return a gentlemanly society to China. The core of Confucianism concerned social structure. Confucius taught that a man should respect and obey those of higher rank than himself‚ whether they be the father of a family‚ or the emperor of a nation. But
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CONFUCIANISM REPORT KAS2 FOUNDER: Kong Qui or K’ung Fu-tzu or better known as Confucius was born August 27‚ 551 B.C. in Tuo‚ China (during Zhou Dynasty‚ Feudal Era). [1] In the Analects‚ he is said to be born in an aristocratic family but there are those who claim that he was born into poverty. Believes in Taosm but does not teach about his faith. Some say that he is not the founder of Confucianism due to Confucius awareness that he himself is only a transmitter of his teachings which has
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Lit. 103 World Literatures Preliminary Examination Reviewer ------------------------------------------------- Indian-Chinese-Japanese Indian Literature Aryan race- invaded India from North West * Brahmanism‚ Hinduism‚ and Jainism were their religions Gautama Buddha- made many changes in the old religion; his teachings later became the basis for one of the five major religions Sanskrit- oldest extant Aryan language‚ used in most Ancient Indian literature 2 Periods of Indian Literature
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