In order to improve the cartography efficiency and the intelligent level of forestry map,we put forward the symbolization scheme of forestry map based on MapGIS K9 platform.Firstly,the symbol library of forestry map w...In order to improve the cartography efficiency and the intelligent level of forestry map,we put forward the symbolization scheme of forestry map based on MapGIS K9 platform.Firstly,the symbol library of forestry map was constructed according to The Graphic Representation of Forestry Map which was issued by the National Forestry Bureau in October,2010.Then,the symbol configuration rule database was established to realize the expression of symbol configuration rule in the digital environment.Finally,the symbolization module was realized with the support of MapGIS Objects component development technology,and the thematic data of forestry were visualized according to the symbol configuration rule.The practice proved that the scheme could basically satisfy the cartography requirements of common forestry maps which included the forest management inventory map.展开更多
The folk costume in waterside villages of Southern Yangtze in China was notonly daily consumer goods, but also a symbol system of folk-custom culture. This symbol system was directly conveyed by a series medley shape ...The folk costume in waterside villages of Southern Yangtze in China was notonly daily consumer goods, but also a symbol system of folk-custom culture. This symbol system was directly conveyed by a series medley shape signs, many-faceted color signs and decorated craft signs of pleated skirt. Its origination, accumulation, continual process and development were greatly associated with the life style and paddy culture of waterside villages, such as the folk religion, social life, artistic philosophy, regional culture, the landform of waterside villages and the humanity environment. So the folk costume was the significant sign of practical function and also the significative sign of folk traditional culture, both of which composed the costume cultural symbol system of waterside villages of Southern Yangtze called ＂ integration of aesthetic and practical function＂.展开更多
Lantern Festival is at the end of Chinese New Year.People light and hang beautiful lanterns everywhere.Lighting lanterns is a symbol of letting go of the past year's troubles.It also means inviting good luck for t...Lantern Festival is at the end of Chinese New Year.People light and hang beautiful lanterns everywhere.Lighting lanterns is a symbol of letting go of the past year's troubles.It also means inviting good luck for the new year.At night,the lanterns shine and make the streets and parks look wonderful.展开更多
From the mythic tales of ancient China to the spiritual practices of West Africa,and from the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs to the emblematic symbols of healing in Greece,the snake has woven itself into the fabric of hum...From the mythic tales of ancient China to the spiritual practices of West Africa,and from the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs to the emblematic symbols of healing in Greece,the snake has woven itself into the fabric of human culture.Whether as a symbol of fertility,wisdom,healing,or mystery,the snake continues to inspire and intrigue.As 2025 marks the Chinese Year of the Snake,it is an opportune moment to explore the profound and multifaceted roles snakes play in the cultures and myths of civilisations worldwide.展开更多
In Chinese culture,the dragon symbolizes faith,strength,courage,and an air of mystery.In 2024,guided by this auspicious emblem and supported by authors,readers,reviewers,and editorial board members,Zoological Research...In Chinese culture,the dragon symbolizes faith,strength,courage,and an air of mystery.In 2024,guided by this auspicious emblem and supported by authors,readers,reviewers,and editorial board members,Zoological Research(ZR) has successfully completed its annual publishing objectives,achieved significant progress,and secured continued national funding support through its selection for China's Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan (phaseⅡ).As we enter the year of the snake,a symbol of wisdom,renewal,transformation,and growth,we take this opportunity to reflect on past achievements and express our sincere appreciation to all contributors.展开更多
In ancient China,the snake was worshipped as a totem.In Chinese mythology,Nüwa and Fuxi,the deities who created humans,were half human and half snake.Folk art depicts them as conjoined,with interlocked tails.Whil...In ancient China,the snake was worshipped as a totem.In Chinese mythology,Nüwa and Fuxi,the deities who created humans,were half human and half snake.Folk art depicts them as conjoined,with interlocked tails.While in Western culture the serpent is regarded as the tempter who caused the fall of man,in ancient Chinese philosophy,the snake is a symbol of fertility and vitality.As it has the disposition to shed skin,the snake is also emblematic of regeneration and a new beginning.展开更多
With respect to oceanic fluid dynamics,certain models have appeared,e.g.,an extended time-dependent(3+1)-dimensional shallow water wave equation in an ocean or a river,which we investigate in this paper.Using symbolic...With respect to oceanic fluid dynamics,certain models have appeared,e.g.,an extended time-dependent(3+1)-dimensional shallow water wave equation in an ocean or a river,which we investigate in this paper.Using symbolic computation,we find out,on one hand,a set of bilinear auto-Backlund transformations,which could connect certain solutions of that equation with other solutions of that equation itself,and on the other hand,a set of similarity reductions,which could go from that equation to a known ordinary differential equation.The results in this paper depend on all the oceanic variable coefficients in that equation.展开更多
The opaque property plays an important role in the operation of a security-critical system,implying that pre-defined secret information of the system is not able to be inferred through partially observing its behavior...The opaque property plays an important role in the operation of a security-critical system,implying that pre-defined secret information of the system is not able to be inferred through partially observing its behavior.This paper addresses the verification of current-state,initial-state,infinite-step,and K-step opacity of networked discrete event systems modeled by labeled Petri nets,where communication losses and delays are considered.Based on the symbolic technique for the representation of states in Petri nets,an observer and an estimator are designed for the verification of current-state and initial-state opacity,respectively.Then,we propose a structure called an I-observer that is combined with secret states to verify whether a networked discrete event system is infinite-step opaque or K-step opaque.Due to the utilization of symbolic approaches for the state-based opacity verification,the computation of the reachability graphs of labeled Petri nets is avoided,which dramatically reduces the computational overheads stemming from networked discrete event systems.展开更多
As the risks associated with air turbulence are intensified by climate change and the growth of the aviation industry,it has become imperative to monitor and mitigate these threats to ensure civil aviation safety.The ...As the risks associated with air turbulence are intensified by climate change and the growth of the aviation industry,it has become imperative to monitor and mitigate these threats to ensure civil aviation safety.The eddy dissipation rate(EDR)has been established as the standard metric for quantifying turbulence in civil aviation.This study aims to explore a universally applicable symbolic classification approach based on genetic programming to detect turbulence anomalies using quick access recorder(QAR)data.The detection of atmospheric turbulence is approached as an anomaly detection problem.Comparative evaluations demonstrate that this approach performs on par with direct EDR calculation methods in identifying turbulence events.Moreover,comparisons with alternative machine learning techniques indicate that the proposed technique is the optimal methodology currently available.In summary,the use of symbolic classification via genetic programming enables accurate turbulence detection from QAR data,comparable to that with established EDR approaches and surpassing that achieved with machine learning algorithms.This finding highlights the potential of integrating symbolic classifiers into turbulence monitoring systems to enhance civil aviation safety amidst rising environmental and operational hazards.展开更多
Dear Editor,This letter concerns the development of approximately bi-similar symbolic models for a discrete-time interconnected switched system(DT-ISS).The DT-ISS under consideration is formed by connecting multiple s...Dear Editor,This letter concerns the development of approximately bi-similar symbolic models for a discrete-time interconnected switched system(DT-ISS).The DT-ISS under consideration is formed by connecting multiple switched systems known as component switched systems(CSSs).Although the problem of constructing approximately bi-similar symbolic models for DT-ISS has been addressed in some literature,the previous works have relied on the assumption that all the subsystems of CSSs are incrementally input-state stable.展开更多
We consider dual Toeplitz operators on the orthogonal complements of the FockSobolev spaces of all nonnegative real orders.First,for symbols in a certain class containing all bounded functions,we study the problem of ...We consider dual Toeplitz operators on the orthogonal complements of the FockSobolev spaces of all nonnegative real orders.First,for symbols in a certain class containing all bounded functions,we study the problem of when an operator which is finite sums of the dual Toeplitz products is compact or zero.Next,for bounded symbols,we construct a symbol map and exhibit a short exact sequence associated with the C^(*)-algebra generated by all dual Toeplitz operators with bounded symbols.展开更多
Software security analysts typically only have access to the executable program and cannot directly access the source code of the program.This poses significant challenges to security analysis.While it is crucial to i...Software security analysts typically only have access to the executable program and cannot directly access the source code of the program.This poses significant challenges to security analysis.While it is crucial to identify vulnerabilities in such non-source code programs,there exists a limited set of generalized tools due to the low versatility of current vulnerability mining methods.However,these tools suffer from some shortcomings.In terms of targeted fuzzing,the path searching for target points is not streamlined enough,and the completely random testing leads to an excessively large search space.Additionally,when it comes to code similarity analysis,there are issues with incomplete code feature extraction,which may result in information loss.In this paper,we propose a cross-platform and cross-architecture approach to exploit vulnerabilities using neural network obfuscation techniques.By leveraging the Angr framework,a deobfuscation technique is introduced,along with the adoption of a VEX-IR-based intermediate language conversion method.This combination allows for the unified handling of binary programs across various architectures,compilers,and compilation options.Subsequently,binary programs are processed to extract multi-level spatial features using a combination of a skip-gram model with self-attention mechanism and a bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory(LSTM)network.Finally,the graph embedding network is utilized to evaluate the similarity of program functionalities.Based on these similarity scores,a target function is determined,and symbolic execution is applied to solve the target function.The solved content serves as the initial seed for targeted fuzzing.The binary program is processed by using the de-obfuscation technique and intermediate language transformation method,and then the similarity of program functions is evaluated by using a graph embedding network,and symbolic execution is performed based on these similarity scores.This approach facilitates cross-architecture analysis of executable programs without their source codes and concurrently reduces the risk of symbolic execution path explosion.展开更多
Cultural symbols,a manifestation of cities’cultural resources,are not only signs that frame concepts but also forms that express meanings.Exploring the international communication of cities from the perspective of sy...Cultural symbols,a manifestation of cities’cultural resources,are not only signs that frame concepts but also forms that express meanings.Exploring the international communication of cities from the perspective of symbols,this paper analyzes in depth how cities create their cultural symbols in the dynamic process of international communication in an era of symbol-based digital media,and how they develop their narratives and explain meanings through the dissemination of symbols when telling their stories to international audiences,thus enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of their international communication efforts.展开更多
William Butler Yeats ranks among the most widely admired and intensively studied poets of the 20th century.This paper intends to explore the women who have exerted the most critical influences upon Yeats,namely Gonne,...William Butler Yeats ranks among the most widely admired and intensively studied poets of the 20th century.This paper intends to explore the women who have exerted the most critical influences upon Yeats,namely Gonne,Lady Gregory,and Georgie Hyde-Lees.Even in Yeats’s poetry involved with symbolism,it is worth noting that his employment of symbols has used these women as the archetypes,and that the historical context rendered Yeats’s representations of them in his poetry all the more interesting.展开更多
Confucianism and Daoism share the same origin in Chinese philosophy.The Huang-Lao school,which emerged during the early Han dynasty,produced two branches:Confucianism and Daoism.This school used Chinese society as a l...Confucianism and Daoism share the same origin in Chinese philosophy.The Huang-Lao school,which emerged during the early Han dynasty,produced two branches:Confucianism and Daoism.This school used Chinese society as a laboratory for social science experiments based on The Book of Changes(Yijing)and Laozi,aiming to establish a universal society based on the ideal of“great unity”(datong).展开更多
This essay examines Francis Sydney Muschamp’s depictions of the Penelope myth during the Victorian era.The Penelope myth,a significant narrative in the Victorian era,was popularized by the Pre-Raphaelite painters Tho...This essay examines Francis Sydney Muschamp’s depictions of the Penelope myth during the Victorian era.The Penelope myth,a significant narrative in the Victorian era,was popularized by the Pre-Raphaelite painters Thomas Seddon(1821-1856),Dante Gabriel Rossetti(1828-1882),John Roddam Spencer Stanhope(1829-1908),Frederick Sandys(1829-1904),and John William Waterhouse(1849-1917).Their interpretations of this epic poem from Homer’s Odyssey(800 BCE)inspired Muschamp(1851-1929).He often depicted Penelope’s unwavering fidelity and patience as female virtuosity and a cunning perception of family values during her husband Odysseus’s long absence.Historically,Penelope was the Queen of Ithaca and the loyal wife of King Odysseus(Ulysses).During her husband’s 20-year absence while fighting in the Trojan Wars,Penelope was pursued by suitors competing for her affection and insisting that Odysseus was dead.Despite their advances,Penelope refused to believe that she had been widowed or abandoned.She devised various tricks to keep the suitors at bay.For example,she told them she would choose one of them to marry after completing a woven funeral shroud for her father-in-law,Laertes.Every day,she worked diligently on the tapestry,a shroud,while the impatient suitors watched her progress,but she secretly unraveled the day’s work at night when they were asleep.The tapestry became known as Penelope’s Web.展开更多
On December 17,2020,the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO)inscribed China's Taijiquan,also known as Tai Chi,on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Hu...On December 17,2020,the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO)inscribed China's Taijiquan,also known as Tai Chi,on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.Nowadays,Taijiquan,as a symbol of traditional Chinese culture,has become an important bridge and bond for China's cultural exchanges with other countries,inheriting the cultural gene of the Chinese nation.展开更多
Many countries list the Spring Festival as a national holiday,and about one-fifth of humanity celebrates this festival in various ways.THE Chinese New Year,also known as the Spring Festival,is a time-honored social an...Many countries list the Spring Festival as a national holiday,and about one-fifth of humanity celebrates this festival in various ways.THE Chinese New Year,also known as the Spring Festival,is a time-honored social and cultural tradition that has been celebrated for thousands of years.It is a festival that not only marks the inception of a new year in Chinese lunar calendar,but also acts as a symbolic bridge to connect individuals from different cultures and backgrounds.展开更多
Water Governance in China-Perspectives of Xi Jinping Author:Ministry of Water Resources Hardcover,512 pages Published by Foreign Languages Press Water has a vital symbolic significance in Chinese culture.Over 2,000 ye...Water Governance in China-Perspectives of Xi Jinping Author:Ministry of Water Resources Hardcover,512 pages Published by Foreign Languages Press Water has a vital symbolic significance in Chinese culture.Over 2,000 years ago,Lao Zi,the philosopher and founder of Taoism in the late Spring and Autumn Period(770-476 BC),noted,“The greatest virtue is like water,nurturing all living things without competing with them,”conveying the idea that true virtue,like flowing water,benefits all.展开更多
F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby successfully portrays the“Jazz Age”.In the early 20th century,the United States transitioned from a production-based society to a consumer-based society,leading to an era of un...F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby successfully portrays the“Jazz Age”.In the early 20th century,the United States transitioned from a production-based society to a consumer-based society,leading to an era of unparalleled prosperity.However,in the context of consumer culture,individuals often transition from being masters of their possessions to becoming enslaved by them.As a result,their behaviours and values become increasingly associated with extravagance and consumption.This paper uses Baudrillard’s theory of consumer society and textual analysis to explore the impact of consumer culture on human beings through the symbolization of men and objectification of women in The Great Gatsby.The meanings embedded in the novel are revealed from a different perspective.展开更多
基金Supported by"Fine Recognition Technology of Types of Land CoversFaced the Land Parcel and Its Application"of National High Technology Research Development Plan(863 Plan)Item(2007AA12Z181)~~
文摘In order to improve the cartography efficiency and the intelligent level of forestry map,we put forward the symbolization scheme of forestry map based on MapGIS K9 platform.Firstly,the symbol library of forestry map was constructed according to The Graphic Representation of Forestry Map which was issued by the National Forestry Bureau in October,2010.Then,the symbol configuration rule database was established to realize the expression of symbol configuration rule in the digital environment.Finally,the symbolization module was realized with the support of MapGIS Objects component development technology,and the thematic data of forestry were visualized according to the symbol configuration rule.The practice proved that the scheme could basically satisfy the cartography requirements of common forestry maps which included the forest management inventory map.
基金Society and Science of Jiangsu Province (No.06JSBYS005)
文摘The folk costume in waterside villages of Southern Yangtze in China was notonly daily consumer goods, but also a symbol system of folk-custom culture. This symbol system was directly conveyed by a series medley shape signs, many-faceted color signs and decorated craft signs of pleated skirt. Its origination, accumulation, continual process and development were greatly associated with the life style and paddy culture of waterside villages, such as the folk religion, social life, artistic philosophy, regional culture, the landform of waterside villages and the humanity environment. So the folk costume was the significant sign of practical function and also the significative sign of folk traditional culture, both of which composed the costume cultural symbol system of waterside villages of Southern Yangtze called ＂ integration of aesthetic and practical function＂.
文摘Lantern Festival is at the end of Chinese New Year.People light and hang beautiful lanterns everywhere.Lighting lanterns is a symbol of letting go of the past year's troubles.It also means inviting good luck for the new year.At night,the lanterns shine and make the streets and parks look wonderful.
文摘From the mythic tales of ancient China to the spiritual practices of West Africa,and from the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs to the emblematic symbols of healing in Greece,the snake has woven itself into the fabric of human culture.Whether as a symbol of fertility,wisdom,healing,or mystery,the snake continues to inspire and intrigue.As 2025 marks the Chinese Year of the Snake,it is an opportune moment to explore the profound and multifaceted roles snakes play in the cultures and myths of civilisations worldwide.
文摘In Chinese culture,the dragon symbolizes faith,strength,courage,and an air of mystery.In 2024,guided by this auspicious emblem and supported by authors,readers,reviewers,and editorial board members,Zoological Research(ZR) has successfully completed its annual publishing objectives,achieved significant progress,and secured continued national funding support through its selection for China's Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan (phaseⅡ).As we enter the year of the snake,a symbol of wisdom,renewal,transformation,and growth,we take this opportunity to reflect on past achievements and express our sincere appreciation to all contributors.
文摘In ancient China,the snake was worshipped as a totem.In Chinese mythology,Nüwa and Fuxi,the deities who created humans,were half human and half snake.Folk art depicts them as conjoined,with interlocked tails.While in Western culture the serpent is regarded as the tempter who caused the fall of man,in ancient Chinese philosophy,the snake is a symbol of fertility and vitality.As it has the disposition to shed skin,the snake is also emblematic of regeneration and a new beginning.
基金financially supported by the Scientific Research Foundation of North China University of Technology(Grant Nos.11005136024XN147-87 and 110051360024XN151-86).
文摘With respect to oceanic fluid dynamics,certain models have appeared,e.g.,an extended time-dependent(3+1)-dimensional shallow water wave equation in an ocean or a river,which we investigate in this paper.Using symbolic computation,we find out,on one hand,a set of bilinear auto-Backlund transformations,which could connect certain solutions of that equation with other solutions of that equation itself,and on the other hand,a set of similarity reductions,which could go from that equation to a known ordinary differential equation.The results in this paper depend on all the oceanic variable coefficients in that equation.
基金supported by the National R&D Program of China(2018YFB 1700104)the Science and Technology Development FundMacao Special Administrative Region(MSAR)(0029/2023/RIA1)。
文摘The opaque property plays an important role in the operation of a security-critical system,implying that pre-defined secret information of the system is not able to be inferred through partially observing its behavior.This paper addresses the verification of current-state,initial-state,infinite-step,and K-step opacity of networked discrete event systems modeled by labeled Petri nets,where communication losses and delays are considered.Based on the symbolic technique for the representation of states in Petri nets,an observer and an estimator are designed for the verification of current-state and initial-state opacity,respectively.Then,we propose a structure called an I-observer that is combined with secret states to verify whether a networked discrete event system is infinite-step opaque or K-step opaque.Due to the utilization of symbolic approaches for the state-based opacity verification,the computation of the reachability graphs of labeled Petri nets is avoided,which dramatically reduces the computational overheads stemming from networked discrete event systems.
基金supported by the Meteorological Soft Science Project(Grant No.2023ZZXM29)the Natural Science Fund Project of Tianjin,China(Grant No.21JCYBJC00740)the Key Research and Development-Social Development Program of Jiangsu Province,China(Grant No.BE2021685).
文摘As the risks associated with air turbulence are intensified by climate change and the growth of the aviation industry,it has become imperative to monitor and mitigate these threats to ensure civil aviation safety.The eddy dissipation rate(EDR)has been established as the standard metric for quantifying turbulence in civil aviation.This study aims to explore a universally applicable symbolic classification approach based on genetic programming to detect turbulence anomalies using quick access recorder(QAR)data.The detection of atmospheric turbulence is approached as an anomaly detection problem.Comparative evaluations demonstrate that this approach performs on par with direct EDR calculation methods in identifying turbulence events.Moreover,comparisons with alternative machine learning techniques indicate that the proposed technique is the optimal methodology currently available.In summary,the use of symbolic classification via genetic programming enables accurate turbulence detection from QAR data,comparable to that with established EDR approaches and surpassing that achieved with machine learning algorithms.This finding highlights the potential of integrating symbolic classifiers into turbulence monitoring systems to enhance civil aviation safety amidst rising environmental and operational hazards.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai Municipality(21ZR1423400)the National Natural Science Funds of China(62173217)NSFC/Royal Society Cooperation and Exchange Project(62111530154,IEC\NSFC\201107).
文摘Dear Editor,This letter concerns the development of approximately bi-similar symbolic models for a discrete-time interconnected switched system(DT-ISS).The DT-ISS under consideration is formed by connecting multiple switched systems known as component switched systems(CSSs).Although the problem of constructing approximately bi-similar symbolic models for DT-ISS has been addressed in some literature,the previous works have relied on the assumption that all the subsystems of CSSs are incrementally input-state stable.
基金supported by the NSFC(12271134,11771401)supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)funded by the Ministry of Education(NRF-2019R1I1A3A01041943)。
文摘We consider dual Toeplitz operators on the orthogonal complements of the FockSobolev spaces of all nonnegative real orders.First,for symbols in a certain class containing all bounded functions,we study the problem of when an operator which is finite sums of the dual Toeplitz products is compact or zero.Next,for bounded symbols,we construct a symbol map and exhibit a short exact sequence associated with the C^(*)-algebra generated by all dual Toeplitz operators with bounded symbols.
文摘Software security analysts typically only have access to the executable program and cannot directly access the source code of the program.This poses significant challenges to security analysis.While it is crucial to identify vulnerabilities in such non-source code programs,there exists a limited set of generalized tools due to the low versatility of current vulnerability mining methods.However,these tools suffer from some shortcomings.In terms of targeted fuzzing,the path searching for target points is not streamlined enough,and the completely random testing leads to an excessively large search space.Additionally,when it comes to code similarity analysis,there are issues with incomplete code feature extraction,which may result in information loss.In this paper,we propose a cross-platform and cross-architecture approach to exploit vulnerabilities using neural network obfuscation techniques.By leveraging the Angr framework,a deobfuscation technique is introduced,along with the adoption of a VEX-IR-based intermediate language conversion method.This combination allows for the unified handling of binary programs across various architectures,compilers,and compilation options.Subsequently,binary programs are processed to extract multi-level spatial features using a combination of a skip-gram model with self-attention mechanism and a bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory(LSTM)network.Finally,the graph embedding network is utilized to evaluate the similarity of program functionalities.Based on these similarity scores,a target function is determined,and symbolic execution is applied to solve the target function.The solved content serves as the initial seed for targeted fuzzing.The binary program is processed by using the de-obfuscation technique and intermediate language transformation method,and then the similarity of program functions is evaluated by using a graph embedding network,and symbolic execution is performed based on these similarity scores.This approach facilitates cross-architecture analysis of executable programs without their source codes and concurrently reduces the risk of symbolic execution path explosion.
文摘Cultural symbols,a manifestation of cities’cultural resources,are not only signs that frame concepts but also forms that express meanings.Exploring the international communication of cities from the perspective of symbols,this paper analyzes in depth how cities create their cultural symbols in the dynamic process of international communication in an era of symbol-based digital media,and how they develop their narratives and explain meanings through the dissemination of symbols when telling their stories to international audiences,thus enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of their international communication efforts.
文摘William Butler Yeats ranks among the most widely admired and intensively studied poets of the 20th century.This paper intends to explore the women who have exerted the most critical influences upon Yeats,namely Gonne,Lady Gregory,and Georgie Hyde-Lees.Even in Yeats’s poetry involved with symbolism,it is worth noting that his employment of symbols has used these women as the archetypes,and that the historical context rendered Yeats’s representations of them in his poetry all the more interesting.
文摘Confucianism and Daoism share the same origin in Chinese philosophy.The Huang-Lao school,which emerged during the early Han dynasty,produced two branches:Confucianism and Daoism.This school used Chinese society as a laboratory for social science experiments based on The Book of Changes(Yijing)and Laozi,aiming to establish a universal society based on the ideal of“great unity”(datong).
文摘This essay examines Francis Sydney Muschamp’s depictions of the Penelope myth during the Victorian era.The Penelope myth,a significant narrative in the Victorian era,was popularized by the Pre-Raphaelite painters Thomas Seddon(1821-1856),Dante Gabriel Rossetti(1828-1882),John Roddam Spencer Stanhope(1829-1908),Frederick Sandys(1829-1904),and John William Waterhouse(1849-1917).Their interpretations of this epic poem from Homer’s Odyssey(800 BCE)inspired Muschamp(1851-1929).He often depicted Penelope’s unwavering fidelity and patience as female virtuosity and a cunning perception of family values during her husband Odysseus’s long absence.Historically,Penelope was the Queen of Ithaca and the loyal wife of King Odysseus(Ulysses).During her husband’s 20-year absence while fighting in the Trojan Wars,Penelope was pursued by suitors competing for her affection and insisting that Odysseus was dead.Despite their advances,Penelope refused to believe that she had been widowed or abandoned.She devised various tricks to keep the suitors at bay.For example,she told them she would choose one of them to marry after completing a woven funeral shroud for her father-in-law,Laertes.Every day,she worked diligently on the tapestry,a shroud,while the impatient suitors watched her progress,but she secretly unraveled the day’s work at night when they were asleep.The tapestry became known as Penelope’s Web.
文摘On December 17,2020,the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO)inscribed China's Taijiquan,also known as Tai Chi,on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.Nowadays,Taijiquan,as a symbol of traditional Chinese culture,has become an important bridge and bond for China's cultural exchanges with other countries,inheriting the cultural gene of the Chinese nation.
文摘Many countries list the Spring Festival as a national holiday,and about one-fifth of humanity celebrates this festival in various ways.THE Chinese New Year,also known as the Spring Festival,is a time-honored social and cultural tradition that has been celebrated for thousands of years.It is a festival that not only marks the inception of a new year in Chinese lunar calendar,but also acts as a symbolic bridge to connect individuals from different cultures and backgrounds.
文摘Water Governance in China-Perspectives of Xi Jinping Author:Ministry of Water Resources Hardcover,512 pages Published by Foreign Languages Press Water has a vital symbolic significance in Chinese culture.Over 2,000 years ago,Lao Zi,the philosopher and founder of Taoism in the late Spring and Autumn Period(770-476 BC),noted,“The greatest virtue is like water,nurturing all living things without competing with them,”conveying the idea that true virtue,like flowing water,benefits all.
文摘F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby successfully portrays the“Jazz Age”.In the early 20th century,the United States transitioned from a production-based society to a consumer-based society,leading to an era of unparalleled prosperity.However,in the context of consumer culture,individuals often transition from being masters of their possessions to becoming enslaved by them.As a result,their behaviours and values become increasingly associated with extravagance and consumption.This paper uses Baudrillard’s theory of consumer society and textual analysis to explore the impact of consumer culture on human beings through the symbolization of men and objectification of women in The Great Gatsby.The meanings embedded in the novel are revealed from a different perspective.
