Ancient Chinese Thought of Character Formation & Modern Logo Design

Leonardo ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-185
Author(s):  
Dai Wusan
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Character Formation ◽  
Modern Design ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
The Core ◽  
Chinese Thought ◽  
Logo Design

The pictograph is the core of ancient Chinese characters. In recent years, Chinese characters, especially the ancient oracle-bone inscriptions and seal characters, are often adopted in logo design in China. This article analyzes the concise thought adopted in ancient character-creating, such as “highlighting characteristics”, “simplifying”, and “less for more”, and probes into the application of such ancient thought with modern design cases, in an attempt to establish evaluation standards for the integration of culture and art.

Brook Ziporyn’s (Chinese) Buddhist Reading of Chinese Philosophy

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-267
Author(s):  
Paul J. D'Ambrosio
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Chinese Buddhism ◽  
Classroom Discussions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Chinese Thought ◽  
Core Issue ◽  
Tiantai Buddhism ◽  
Early Chinese Philosophy

This review article defends Brook Ziporyn against the charge, quite common in graduate classroom discussions, if not in print, that his readings of early Chinese philosophy are ‘overly Buddhist’. These readings are found in his three most recent books: Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese Thought, Beyond Oneness and Difference: Li and Coherence in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents, and Emptiness and Omnipresence: An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism. His readings are clearly Buddhist-influenced, but this is not in and of itself problematic. The core issue is rather to what degree these ‘Buddhist elements’ are actually already existent in, and have subsequently been carried over from, early Chinese thought in the development of Chinese Buddhism. Indeed, some scholars of Chinese Buddhism have pointed out that much of the vocabulary, concepts, and logic used in schools such as Tiantai may owe more to Daoist influences than to Buddhist ones. Accordingly, Ziporyn’s ‘overly Buddhist’ approach might simply be an avenue of interpretation that is actually quite in line with the thinking in the early texts themselves, albeit one that is less familiar (i.e. an early Chinese Buddhist or Ziporyn’s approach). The article also aims to show how Ziporyn’s theory concerning the importance of ‘coherence’ in early and later Chinese philosophy is also quite important in his above work on Tiantai Buddhism, Emptiness and Omnipresence. While in this work Ziporyn almost entirely abstains from using the language of coherence, much of it actually rests on a strong coherence-based foundation, thereby demonstrating not Ziporyn’s own prejudice, but rather the thoroughgoing importance and versatility of his arguments on coherence. Indeed, understanding the importance of coherence in his readings of Tiantai Buddhism (despite the fact that he does not explicitly use coherence-related vocabulary) only bolsters the defense against the claims that he makes ‘overly Buddhist’ readings of early Chinese philosophy.

The Moral Education Function and Path Choice of Art Education in Elementary Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 5570-5585
Author(s):  
Wang Kunqi
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
The Core ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
Core Literacy ◽  
Education Courses

Objectives: Since the 21st century, the cultivation of talents has shifted from the "core of knowledge" to the "core of literacy", which is also an emphasis on and attention to the core literacy of students. The elementary education policy represents an important measure in China's comprehensive quality education, and it puts forward higher requirements on the content and evaluation standards of basic art education. Ideological and moral education has always been highly valued in China. Moral education courses are compulsory public courses for students from elementary school to middle school across the country. The contradiction between the development and prosperity of moral education and the ideological and moral problems of students in the compulsory education stage is thought provoking. It is imperative to reform the existing moral education work. Giving full play to the moral education function of art education in elementary education is a popular and effective way for students in elementary and middle schools. The significance of this article's research on the moral education function of art education in elementary education is to infiltrate the moral education of art education, cultivate sentiments, improve students' aesthetic ability, cultivate students' artistic qualities and innovative thinking, to cultivate all-round development of people.

Stroke systems in Chinese characters: A systemic functional perspective on simplified regular script

Semiotica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (218) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Xuanwei Peng
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Point System ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Writing Systems ◽  
Character Formation ◽  
Line System ◽  
Preliminary Attempt ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Chinese Writing

AbstractThis article makes a preliminary attempt to account for the stroke systems of Chinese characters in simplified regular script. The framework utilized is the three meta-functions in Systemic Functional Linguistics. The description observes the cases from the perspectives of the experiential, appraisal (aesthetic), and thematic semiosis of strokes and their constitutional segments to figure out the relevant systems: the line system and the point system. This process witnesses comparisons to seek, in brief though, the traces and origins of stroke development along evolution, and hence the straightening of lines and squaring of character formation. This is the first step towards a rank model of Chinese writing, the whole project of which will highlight a way to study other writing systems in the semiotic respect.

scholarly journals Topological Analysis of the Language Networks of Ancient Traditional Chinese Medicine Books

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Qunsheng Zou ◽  
Yinyan Wang ◽  
Zixin Shu ◽  
Kuo Yang ◽  
Jingjing Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Topological Analysis ◽  
Small World ◽  
Directed Network ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Power Law Distribution ◽  
The Core ◽  
Clustering Coefficients ◽  
Path Lengths

This study aims to explore the topological regularities of the character network of ancient traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) book. We applied the 2-gram model to construct language networks from ancient TCM books. Each text of the book was separated into sentences and a TCM book was generated as a directed network, in which nodes represent Chinese characters and links represent the sequential associations between Chinese characters in the sentences (the occurrence of identical sequential associations is considered as the weight of this link). We first calculated node degrees, average path lengths, and clustering coefficients of the book networks and explored the basic topological correlations between them. Then, we compared the similarity of network nodes to assess the specificity of TCM concepts in the network. In order to explore the relationship between TCM concepts, we screened TCM concepts and clustered them. Finally, we selected the binary groups whose weights are greater than 10 in Inner Canon of Huangdi (ICH, 黄帝内经) and Treatise on Cold Pathogenic Disease (TCPD, 伤寒论), hoping to find the core differences of these two ancient TCM books through them. We found that the degree distributions of ancient TCM book networks are consistent with power law distribution. Moreover, the average path lengths of book networks are much smaller than random networks of the same scale; clustering coefficients are higher, which means that ancient book networks have small-world patterns. In addition, the similar TCM concepts are displayed and linked closely, according to the results of cosine similarity comparison and clustering. Furthermore, the core words of Inner Canon of Huangdi and Treatise on Cold Pathogenic Diseases have essential differences, which might indicate the significant differences of language and conceptual patterns between theoretical and clinical books. This study adopts language network approach to investigate the basic conceptual characteristics of ancient TCM book networks, which proposes a useful method to identify the underlying conceptual meanings of particular concepts conceived in TCM theories and clinical operations.

The Study on the Philosophy of Green Design in Modern Design

2011 ◽  
Vol 308-310 ◽  
pp. 1720-1723
Author(s):  
Ru Shan Yan
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Green Design ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Modern Design ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Impact

Green Design, as an advanced designing thought, is a design progress that takes the protection of environment and resources as the core philosophy. Nowadays, the global economy develops rapidly, and the material civilization of human beings has reached an unprecedented level, yet we have to face a series of serious consequences caused by the ignorance of the impact of environment, resources and misunderstanding of the concept “Green Design”. This paper will explore the different cognition on “Green Design”, expound what is real “Green Design” and reexamine modern design, and hope that the design will play an important role in the allocation of resources and energy.

Festival Design and Programming

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kelly ◽  
Jennie Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Design Stage ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
The Core ◽  
Logo Design ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Core Questions ◽  
The Many ◽  
Clear Idea ◽  
Central Factors

In this chapter we set out the principles, the possibilities, the processes and the practicalities of designing your festival. We start from the principle that festival design is first and foremost the artistic creation of the event, mentally and physically. That is, first the festival is conceived in the designers’ mind: it is imagined, reflected on and desired. Second, the designer works through the possibilities and practicalities of what they want to do, including the key area of programming, before moving on to the process of festival production. As we shall see the increasing necessity of designing a good festival ‘experience’ is all important. There is, however, no shirking the many physical and practical considerations, such as venue size, utilities, and duration, all of which have to be considered at this design stage. This chapter assumes you are starting from scratch, because that ensures we cover all of the bases. If you are designing or redesigning a festival that already exists, the main difference is that you will need to know what your audiences and other stakeholders value about the festival’s current design so you don’t alienate them. This chapter defines what festival design includes and stresses the importance of being clear on why you want to produce a festival. It looks at the central factors that sustain a festival. What is the festival’s rationale? What is its vision? What makes for a good programme? You may already have a clear idea of what you want to do and why, in which case this chapter will be a good means of testing it. Alternately you may know you want to stage a festival but may not be clear on the theme or rationale. This chapter will help you focus on that. Finally, festivals are a combination of vision and detail. It is often easiest to start with the details such as logo design or decor, but don’t let that distract you from the core questions of why you want to undertake this difficult, tiring and risky project, and who you are producing it for. The chapter starts with the vision and rationale as this will inform the all-important detail that will follow. You don’t build a house without first laying the foundations. Festival design can involve a wide range of rationales and motivations. These can include personal motivators including beliefs and philosophy, aesthetic and artistic rationale, place and spatial issues and of course finances. We will examine all of them in this chapter.

Comparing the Core Evaluation System for Green Building at Home and Broad

2014 ◽  
Vol 507 ◽  
pp. 163-167
Author(s):  
Bin Fan ◽  
Xue Yi Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
Evaluation Standard ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Evaluation ◽  
At Home

Based on the Evaluation Standard for Green Building in China, this paper compares evaluation standards of other countries and finds some disadvantages in domestic evaluation system by analyzing their advantages.

Principles to Actions: Mathematics Programs as the Core for Student Learning

2014 ◽  
Vol 107 (9) ◽  
pp. 656-658
Author(s):  
Daniel Brahier ◽  
Steve Leinwand ◽  
DeAnn Huinker
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Common Core ◽  
Common Core State Standards ◽  
State Standards ◽  
National Council ◽  
Core State ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Common ◽  
Systemic Improvement

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) launched the “standards-based” education movement in North America in 1989 with the release of Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics, an unprecedented action to promote systemic improvement in mathematics education. Now, twenty-five years later, the widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) by forty-five states provides an opportunity to reenergize and focus our commitment to significant improvement in mathematics education (CCSSI 2010).

A Core Curriculum in Geometry

1992 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-303
Author(s):  
Martha Tietze
Keyword(s):  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Developmental Level ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Mathematically Talented

What do a course for mathematically talented geometry students and a course for the non-college-bound have in common? Concepts and learning activities! I teach both courses and have found that many of the same activities can be used to develop concepts. Both the depth and breadth of the activities need to be adjusted to the developmental level of the students—a good example of the core curriculum as described in NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards (1989). The focus of this article is the use of hands-on activities in the third year of an integrated sequence for the non-college-bound. Reference is made to variations and extensions for an honors geometry course.

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