Yang Jin

The Xixiangji, 西厢记 (Romance of the Western Chamber), is an outstanding representative of Chinese classical drama, possesses significant literary and artistic value, and expresses profound Chinese philosophical insights into life, society, human emotions, and relationships. It not only embodies the characteristics of classical culture but also profoundly reflects the complexity of human nature and the sincerity of emotions. It represents a pivotal shift in Chinese literary and philosophical thought. By transforming a Tang Dynasty tale of seduction and abandonment into a celebratory narrative of mutual devotion, the author, Wang Shifu, challenged the rigid Confucian social hierarchy of the Yuan period. This paper explores the artistic and literary value of Xixiangji, focusing on its structural, compositional, and linguistic artistry, which deeply reflects the changes in Yuan Dynasty dramatic thought. It also explores philosophical themes such as the natural forces of nature (Yin and Yang), free will and destiny, the importance of human emotions, especially love, and moral obligations, making it a suitable subject for philosophical reflection. The ultimate purpose is to demonstrate how the Xixiangji is both a literary gem and a philosophical mosaic, weaving together Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist elements, structural aesthetics, and ethical concepts. In the end, what seems to be a conflict is transformed into a state of balance and harmony (He).

Korean historical chronicles provide a two-thousand-year observational record of natural phenomena, including astronomical and meteorological events. In this paper, we use their records of sunspots and frost to examine the correlation of between solar activity and climate change in Korea. In total, we have 42 sunspot records for the Goryeo Dynasty (AD 918–1392) and 13 for the Joseon Dynasty (AD 1392–1910). Those for the Goryeo Dynasty show a periodicity in good agreement with the well-known 11-year cycle of solar activity, and those for the Joseon Dynasty suggest that solar activity decreased over the following ~500 years. In order to examine the long-period variation of solar activity, we supplement our data with Chinese sunspot records from the same period, and we find a new ~240-yr period of solar activity via power spectral analysis. The Korean chronicles also contain ~700 frost records spanning the last thousand years, and we investigate these records for signs of cooling indicative of climate change. These records point to a ~240-yr cooling period, which is well in accord with that of solar activity. From this, we argue that solar activity has decreased over the last one thousand years and has a long-term variation of ~240 years.

Western logic, Aristotle's words in the ancient term logic, Stoic propositional logic, a few in the modern mathematical logic. Modern logic and the logic of the main difference is the ancient methods, and study like the same. Ancient logic and language closer together, more modern logic and mathematics are directly related. Chinese logic say the name of speech, said that debate, from this point of view is more similar to traditional Western logic. But this is only the surface, the Chinese logic reasoning at a deeper level or to demonstrate the effectiveness of focus. However, the Chinese form of logical reasoning, the lack of research, mainly on a theoretical level, the object non-formal logic, and in the meta-theoretical level, the performance of the laws of formal logic and logical theory. West logic includes Aristotelian categorical logic and Stoic propositional logic in ancient time and modern mathematic logic. The differences between modern logic and ancient logic mainly are the method, not the research object. Ancient logic closely links with languages ​​but modem logic more links with mathematic. Chinese logic discussed the theories of Naming , Proposition , Reasoning and Disputation , so it looks like west traditional logic only from this aspect. But this is only the surface of things, in deep levels , Chinese logic focuses on discussing the validity of reasoning and arguments as modem logic. Chinese logic is short of the study for the reasoning forms, mainly expressing as informal logic on the levels of object theory, but expressing as formal logical theory and logical law on the levels of metatheory

The equivalent translation is translation theorists have long debated topics. This paper first reviews the history of the concept of equivalence and equivalent source of the main types, and as a basis equivalent to clarify the epistemological foundations of translation theory, and then point out the errors in epistemology. In this paper, from the Buddhist perspective on the amount of derived words and translated Cheng Zhongyuan two kinds of relationships between the target language, from the source language to target language of the edge-student relationship and the target language to source language from the assignment relationship, and so far equivalent of the traditional translation theory involves only the former. I will reflect the source language and target language equivalent of the dual relationship between the theory called "geo-assignment equivalent • Health, said." I believe, based on the amount of the Buddhist theory of "margin of Health • assignment equivalent to say" the equivalent of the traditional translation theory with more explanatory and can be compared to dependence, it is hoped to promote the translation of foreign academic equivalent in the translation of re- thinking. Equivalence translation is one of the topics disputed about the translation theories. This paper organizes the historical root and the main types of the concept of equivalence. The paper makes the epistemological foundations of the equivalence translation theories clearly, and points out the problems in them. The paper, based upon the Buddhist Epistemology, points out that there are two kinds of relations between SE and TL: the proceeded-relation from SL to TE and the invested-relation from TL to SL in the translation process, but the equivalence translation theories just have been concerned with the former up to now. The paper names the theory which shows the relations between SE and TE as Theory of Proceeded-invested-equivalence, and it proposes that the new equivalence translation theory is more proper and more reliable so that the old will be reconsidered

This essay explores Zen hermeneutics by locating gong'an episodes at the juncture of Zen Buddhism, Heideggerian ontological hermeneutics, and Derridean deconstructive hermeneutics. Employing Heidegger's understanding of truth as aletheia and the Derridean deconstruction of the subject oriented metaphysical mode of thinking, this essay aims to shed light on the special function that hermeneutics plays in our understanding of philosophy's and philosophers' relation to truth and meaning and show how Zen gong'an shares some visions with the hermeneutical discipline in our time