Analysis of Waterscape Engineering Skills of Classical Chinese Gardens

In classical Chinese gardens,the waterscape has its own unique style of expression,which is to highlight the simulation of the natural water landscape and its combination with the elements of the garden.As a pole of classical garden theory,waterscape plays an important role in organizing space and creating the overall landscape effect.In addition to the landscape concept and water management method,the combination of engineering practices and landscape aesthetics involved guarantees Artistic presentation of water bodies in gardens.Based on the existing research,this study cut in from the perspective of engineering technology,and conducted detailed research on engineering techniques,materials application and artistic expression under different water body functions and forms,and explored the fusion of "making" "technique" and "art" in the waterscape construction.

The Outsider Perspective: Classical Chinese Philosophy in the Narrative Framework of the European Enlightenment

The purpose of this article is to enhance the understanding of how Classical Chinese Philosophy has been interpreted and transferred by Enlightenment thinkers into the narrative framework of European philosophy as a far-reaching source of ideas and inspiration with a driving force for promoting modern European social change. We examine outsider perspectives within the context of Enlightenment thinking that contributed to advances in the cross-cultural understanding of how Chinese stories could be disseminated in the framework of East-West dialogue.

A Comparative Study of Classical Chinese Teaching in Junior High School about Analects of Confucius Chapter 12

“Analects of Confucius”is an important carrier of outstanding traditional culture of our country,and“The Ministry of Education”junior high school Chinese textbook seventh grade volume of the third unit of“<Analects>12 chapters”included 12 chapters as learning content.In the actual teaching,Xiao Pei-dong teacher teaching reading as self-reading,let the Analects of Confucius into the students’hearts.Mr.Xu Jie stimulates students’interest by reading Chinese teaching,teaching with culture and teaching in activities.Teacher Zhu Xingxiang guides students to use the method of mutual verification,to explore“the joy of learning”,“the joy of having friends”and“the joy of gentleman”,and to learn Confucius’s optimistic life attitude.The three teachers have different teaching methods,each with its own characteristics,but all reach the same destination,aiming at improving the core quality of students,which has important reference significance for the teaching of classical Chinese in junior high school under the new curriculum standard.

“One Nanyang,Diverse Identities”:An Approach to Understanding the Classical Chinese Poets in Singapore

Since modern Singapore was founded in 1819,different generations of Chinese immigrants have come to live there.The intellectuals among them established literary societies and composed classical Chinese poetry.Different generations of poets wrote about Singapore in different ways.Sojourner poets wrote about Nanyang(a Chinese word referring to Southeast Asia in general,and Malaya and Singapore in particular)as a foreign land;their poetry reflected a strong sense of homesickness.In contrast,the naturalized first-generation and localized poets considered Nanyang their native land;their poetry focused more on Singaporean stories and experiences.Classical Chinese poetry by Chinese immigrants in Singapore,thus,has its own characteristics even as it draws on the essence of Chinese cultural tradition.

Transmission Routes of Chinese Classical Culture in Cross-Cultural Communication

Chinese classical culture is an organic system shared by Chinese nation for 5000 years,taking Confu-cianism as the base and including various other ideological and cultural contents.This article introduces the transmission of Chinese classical culture from Confucian classics translation,promotion of Chinese cultural spirit,writing academic dissertations on the subject of China,translation of Chinese classical literature,introduction of Chinese painting and cal-ligraphy,and ilustration of Chinese local religions.

Artistic Conception of Chinese Classical Gardens

The artistic conception of the garden is the visual and typical natural environment and the ideological implication of the garden landscape expressed by the designer’s conception and creation.This paper analyzed the artistic conception of Chinese classical gardens from four aspects:the types,functions,creative techniques and contemporary factors restricting the development of artistic conception of gardens.It showed the charm of artistic conception of classical Chinese gardens,the important role of artistic conception of gardens,the current situation and problems encountered in the development of artistic conception of contemporary Chinese gardens.The paper also put forward some thoughts on the development status and problems of garden artistic conception,and explored the fusion method of Chinese classical garden artistic conception and modern garden.

On the Embodiment of Chinese Classical Thought in Whitman's Urban Ecological Poetics——Taking the Riverbank of the Ferry Crossing Last Winter as an Example

Whitman believes that people in cities should establish a harmonious relationship between humans and nature.In his urban imagination,humans are a common link in the entire ecosystem.As a part of heaven and earth,everything is one.Through dialogue with nature,Whitman explored that man and nature should be equal and harmonious.Whitman embodies the unique urban ecological poetics in his essay the Riverbank of the Ferry Crossing Last Winter,which contains Chinese classical thought of harmony between man and nature.

A Tentative Study of Translation Evaluation System of Chinese Classical Poetry Form: From the Perspective of Functional Linguistics

Chinese classical poetry is the special form of literature. The translated texts of various qualities hinder the foreign read-ers from appreciating of CCP and even from correctly understanding of the Chinese unique culture, which presents obstacles to thetransmission of Chinese great culture. Tentatively establishing an evaluation system of CCP from the perspective of functional lin-guistics,based on three meta-functions proposed by Halliday, by applying the translation evaluation system, the quality of six trans-lated versions of 清明, a poem by Du Mu are assessed. By this case study, it is intended to prove the feasibility and practicability ofthis translation evaluation system, and then provide the suggestions on bettering the translated versions.

A Study of the Impact of the Dissemination of Ancient Chinese Primer Classic in the United States

Carrying the roots of Chinese civilization to its origins,the Chinese Primer classic has received considerable attention in the international community’s cultural diffusion.The spread of the Chinese Primer class studies in the United States,aided by missionaries such as E.C.Bridgeman,Samuel Wells Williams,and William Alexander Parsons Martin,sinologists such as Witter Bynner and David Hinton,has been characterized by unidirectionality,permeability,and pluralism.

Thomas Cleary's Translation of Chinese Military Classics & Its Implication for Translation Teaching

No research has been done to explore how the Chinese military classics have been studied and translated in the west.In order to fill the void,this paper tries to study Thomas Cleary’s translation of Chinese military classics.

Reception of Translated Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Spanish-speaking World:A Survey of Seven Spanish Versions of Huangdi Neijing(The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic)

Previous studies on translations of Huangdi Neijing(The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic)have focused on English versions;little attention has been given to non-English translations.The present study is the first investigation of the reception of the seven Spanish versions of Huangdi Neijing in terms of three parameters:collection records in libraries worldwide;book reviews and citation counts in international journals;and customer reviews on Amazon.The results revealed four features of Spanish translations and communication of Huangdi Neijing in terms of reception of academia,reception of general readers,the center of translation and communication,and the role of Chinese scholars.These factors demonstrate the marginal status of Spanish translations of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)classics.The implications are summarized in hopes of promoting the translation and communication of TCM classics in the Spanish-speaking world and to provide insights into the communication of TCM culture in the non-English-speaking world.

Discussion on the Translation of Chinese Classics

Since the 16th Party Congress,the central government has put forward in several situations that Chinese culture must spread to other countries,and as the essence of Chinese culture,Chinese classics become the major carriers for the completion of the task.Translation is an important tool for the communication of culture,and some scholars have published some theoretical articles discussing the topic,which has promoted the development of it.This article summarizes the theoretical articles on translation of classical works(especially about English translation)in recent years and discusses who must take the burden of translation and how to translate them.Finally,the article puts forward the principles of translation on Chinese classics.

Interpretation and Translation of Chinese Ancient Primer Classics in China Review

China Review was an important medium for cultural exchange between China and the West in the late 19th century.China Review was first published in Hong Kong.It mainly reports on languages,literature,local customs,and geography in the Far East,known as“the first genuine sinological journal in the Western World”.There are many translations and comments on Chinese Ancient Primer classics in China Review.Representative sinologists such as James Legge and Herbert Giles have and primer classics and published many research works.It had played a significant role in the overseas dissemination of primer classics in the century dissemination.

5 Chinese Classic Must Reads

The canon of Chinese literature is so huge and intimidating that it’s hard to know where to start. And thanks to the difficulty of the Chinese language, only the most serious scholars can read the classics in their original form.Luckily there are some excellent English translations of great Chinese novels,offering you the chance to widen your reading horizons and learn about the culture of the country you’re living in.Here are five classics

SA-Model:Multi-Feature Fusion Poetic Sentiment Analysis Based on a Hybrid Word Vector Model

Sentiment analysis in Chinese classical poetry has become a prominent topic in historical and cultural tracing,ancient literature research,etc.However,the existing research on sentiment analysis is relatively small.It does not effectively solve the problems such as the weak feature extraction ability of poetry text,which leads to the low performance of the model on sentiment analysis for Chinese classical poetry.In this research,we offer the SA-Model,a poetic sentiment analysis model.SA-Model firstly extracts text vector information and fuses it through Bidirectional encoder representation from transformers-Whole word masking-extension(BERT-wwmext)and Enhanced representation through knowledge integration(ERNIE)to enrich text vector information;Secondly,it incorporates numerous encoders to remove text features at multiple levels,thereby increasing text feature information,improving text semantics accuracy,and enhancing the model’s learning and generalization capabilities;finally,multi-feature fusion poetry sentiment analysis model is constructed.The feasibility and accuracy of the model are validated through the ancient poetry sentiment corpus.Compared with other baseline models,the experimental findings indicate that SA-Model may increase the accuracy of text semantics and hence improve the capability of poetry sentiment analysis.

Aesthetic style transferring method based on deep neural network between Chinese landscape painting and classical private garden's virtual scenario

Most of the existing virtual scenarios built for the digital protection of Chinese classical private gardens are too modern in expression style to show the aesthetic significance of their historical period.Considering the aesthetic commonality between traditional Chinese landscape paintings and classical private gardens and referring to image style transfer,here,a deep neural network was proposed to transfer the aesthetic style from landscape paintings to the virtual scenario of classical private gardens.The network consisted of two parts:style prediction and style transfer.The style prediction network was used to obtain style representation from style paintings,and the style transfer network was used to transfer style representation to the content scenario.The pre-trained network was then embedded into the scenario rendering pipeline and combined with the screen post-processing method to realise the stylised expression of the virtual scenario.To verify the feasibility of this methodology,a virtual scenario of the Humble Administrator’s Garden was used as the content scenario andfive garden landscape paintings from different time periods and painting styles were selected for the case study.The results demonstrated that this methodology could effectively achieve the aesthetic style transfer of a virtual scenario.

Letter to the editor: Comment on the Regulatios of the Simplified Registration and Approval Management for Compound Recipe of Classical Prescription of Traditional Chinese Medicine

To the Editor:On Oct 9,2017,China Food and Drug Administration announced1~ the Regulations of the Simplified Registration and Approval Management for Compound Recipe of Classical Prescription of Traditional Chinese Medicine(Exposure Draft)which has been stirring up intense debate in the West.The article China to Roll Back Regulations for Traditional Medicine Despite Safety Concerns lately

Mechanism of Yinchenhao decoction in the treatment of jaundice based on network pharmacology

Objective:This study aimed to examine the mechanism of classic ancient prescription of Chinese medicine Yinchenhao decoction in treating jaundice based on network pharmacology.Method:An oral bioavailability of≥30%,a drug likeness of≥0.18,and literature studies were used to screen for Yinchen(Artemisiae scopariae herba),Zhizi(Gardeniae fructus),Dahuang(Rhei radix et rhizome)in the Chinese Medicine System Pharmacology Database and Analysis Platform.The active ingredient was introduced into the PubChem database to collect drug component targets and import into the Uniprot database for gene standardization.The target gene of Yinchen(Artemisiae scopariae herba)was screened via Human Gene Database(GeneCards).Then,use the Cytoscape 3.7.2 software was used for network visualization analysis,and the R3.6.1 software was used for gene ontology functional and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway enrichment analyses.Results:We collected a total of 47 active constituents of classic ancient prescription of Chinese medicine Yinchenhao decoction,of which 17 were related to jaundice;189,9 targets of jaundice were screened,of which 41 were interdigitated with the targets of classic ancient prescription of Chinese medicine Yinchenhao decoction.Gene ontology functional enrichment analysis revealed 111 biological processes,14 cellular components,and 28 molecular functions,and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway enrichment analysis showed 34 Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathways including hepatocellular carcinoma,PI3K-Akt signaling pathway,HIF-1 signaling pathway,prolactin signaling pathway,and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.Conclusion:Based on the network pharmacology,the analysis of jaundice and classic ancient prescription of Chinese medicine Yinchenhao decoction provides a novel idea and direction for the study of classic ancient prescription of Chinese medicine Yinchenhao decoction in the treatment of jaundice.

The New Result of Studies in the History of Medieval Calligraphy:A Review of The Manual of Calligraphy by Sun Guoting of the Tang:A Comprehensive Study on the Manuscript and Its Author

The Manual of Calligraphy by Sun Guoting of the Tang:A Comprehensive Study on the Manuscript and Its Author is one of the representative monographs by the Italian sinologist Pietro De Laurentis,which includes the textual and historical research of Sun Guoting(a famous calligrapher and calligraphic theorist in the Tang Dynasty)and his calligraphy.The integrity and circulation of Shu pu(one of Sun Guoting’s most famous calligraphic works,which is an important work of traditional Chinese calligraphic theory)and its textual content and visual form,featuring meticulous historical analysis and unique insights,have created a dialogue with the existing studies of Shu pu in China.The English translation of Shu pu and historical records regarding Sun Guoting are presented in this monograph,with informative notes in the translation that convey Sun Guoting’s aesthetic ideas and experiences while learning calligraphy.This book enriches the studies of calligraphy history in China by presenting a new perspective and approach,and the research-based translations provide inspiration and reference for the transmission of Chinese calligraphy in the West.

On the Translation of Iconography of the Decorated Writing-Paper of the Ten Bamboo Studio Based on the Theory of Translational Action

Based on the theory of translational action of the functionalism,this paper selects three aspects,translation as an inter-cultural and communicative action,a purposeful text-processing action and an inter-personal action,to analyze the important issues as well as the translation strategies,methods and techniques adopted in the translation of Chinese allusions.The study shows that the theory of translational action is important for the translation of allusions and that it helps to modify the target text.The translator,also the author of this paper,hopes that this study will be useful for the translation of allusions and the publicity of traditional Chinese culture across the world.