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Through an analysis of pre-Qin conceptions of ghosts and spirits, it demonstrates that the chapter on spirits serves to prove that 'sincerity cannot be concealed,' and further elucidates how the substance of cheng (sincerity) matches Heaven and supports all things, revealing the ontological foundation of the Doctrine of the Mean.","2026-02-07","Xuanji Editorial Board","https:\u002F\u002Fpub-3a45e04801a641b79b5b4303c5ae7394.r2.dev\u002Fblog-covers\u002Fzhongyong-cheng-shen-ontology.png",null,[13,14,15,16,17],"Zhongyong","Ghosts and Spirits","Theory of Sincerity","Metaphysics","Pre-Qin Confucianism",{"path":19,"title":20,"description":21,"date":22,"author":9,"cover":23,"podcast":11,"tags":11},"\u002Fblog\u002F东西方思想\u002F论语同升诸公篇与西方思想对比","Rising Together to the Ranks of Lords: Innate Equality and the Pre-Qin Vision of Self-Cultivation, Compared with Western Freedom and Equality","Starting from a brief episode in the Analects, in which the noble Wenzi of Wei promotes his own household steward, Zhuan, to stand alongside him among the lords, this essay reads that small event against the great declarations of freedom and equality since the Renaissance: the West places its ideal at the starting line, while the pre-Qin thinkers built the ideal into lived reality.","2026-07-20","https:\u002F\u002Fpub-3a45e04801a641b79b5b4303c5ae7394.r2.dev\u002Fblog-covers\u002F东西方思想\u002F论语同升诸公篇与西方思想对比.png",{"path":25,"title":26,"description":27,"date":28,"author":9,"cover":29,"podcast":11,"tags":30},"\u002Fblog\u002F二十四节气\u002F二十四节气之寒露深入解读","Chrysanthemums in Golden Bloom: The Reversal at the Extremity of Decline and the Hermit's Integrity in the Cold Dew Solar Term","This article offers a deeply layered reading of Cold Dew (Hanlu) from the perspectives of pre-Qin Confucian and Daoist philosophy, the original meanings of Chinese characters, astronomy and phenology, and the Double Ninth chrysanthemum festival. It examines the gradual shift of dew from 'white' to 'cold,' the principle of reversal at the extremity of decline embodied in the Bo hexagram's five yin lines stripping away yang yet preserving the 'great fruit uneaten,' the gentleman's integrity symbolized by chrysanthemums defying autumn frost, and the ritual propriety of wild geese arriving as guests — revealing the hidden seed of renewal concealed within the stripping away of yang.","2026-10-08","https:\u002F\u002Fpub-3a45e04801a641b79b5b4303c5ae7394.r2.dev\u002Fblog-covers\u002F二十四节气\u002F二十四节气之寒露深入解读.png",[31,32,33,34,35],"Cold Dew","Twenty-Four Solar Terms","Traditional Culture","Pre-Qin Philosophy","Astronomical Calendar",{"path":37,"title":38,"description":39,"date":8,"author":9,"cover":40,"podcast":11,"tags":41},"\u002Fblog\u002Fxianqin-hunyin-yuju-zhidu","Welcoming the Bride at Frost's Descent: Ritual Order, Heavenly Dao, and Measured Temperance in Pre-Qin Marriage Institutions","This article offers an in-depth reading of the twelve characters 'Frost's Descent — welcome the bride; ice thaws — gradually cease; every ten days — one conjugal union,' tracing their origins through the Rites of Zhou, the Record of Rites, and other pre-Qin classics, and analyzing the marriage-season restrictions, yin-yang philosophy, agrarian-political considerations, and conjugal temperance they encode, with the aim of reconstructing the core of the pre-Qin ritual-thought system.","https:\u002F\u002Fpub-3a45e04801a641b79b5b4303c5ae7394.r2.dev\u002Fblog-covers\u002Fxianqin-hunyin-yuju-zhidu.png",[42,43,44,45,46],"Pre-Qin Ritual Institutions","Frost's Descent — Welcome the Bride","Ice Thaws — Gradually Cease","Every Ten Days — One Union","Rites of Zhou",{"path":48,"title":49,"description":50,"date":8,"author":9,"cover":51,"podcast":11,"tags":52},"\u002Fblog\u002Fyijing-xici-junzi-an","The Essence of the Xici Shangzhuan: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Junzi's Settled Peace and the Order of the Yijing","This article offers a deep reading of the core proposition in the Xici Shangzhuan — 'What the junzi dwells in and finds peace in is the order of the Yi' — integrating the pre-Qin context, the Confucian scholarly lineage, and the structure of the Zhouyi to elucidate how the junzi, by embodying the Way of Heaven and Earth, takes the Yi as the foundation of settled existence, contemplates the images and savors the statements, and ultimately attains the state of 'auspiciousness with nothing unfavorable.'","https:\u002F\u002Fpub-3a45e04801a641b79b5b4303c5ae7394.r2.dev\u002Fblog-covers\u002Fyijing-xici-junzi-an.png",[53,54,55,56,57],"Zhouyi","Xici Shangzhuan","The Way of the Junzi","Image, Statement, and Divination","Confucius and the Yijing",{"path":59,"title":60,"description":61,"date":62,"author":9,"cover":63,"podcast":11,"tags":64},"\u002Fblog\u002F二十四节气\u002F二十四节气之大雪深入解读","Auspicious Snow Sealing the Earth: The Nascent Yang within Supreme Yin at the Major Snow Solar Term","This article offers a deep reading of Major Snow (Daxue) among the twenty-four solar terms, drawing upon pre-Qin Confucian and Daoist philosophy, etymological origins, astronomy, and phenology. It analyzes the etymology of 'da means flourishing — at this point snow flourishes,' examines the Hexagram of Return (Fu) with its 'single yang returning' in the zi month, and reveals the virtue of auspicious snow sealing and protecting nascent yang, along with the profound cosmology of 'supreme yin birthing yang — the heart of Heaven and Earth.'","2026-12-07","https:\u002F\u002Fpub-3a45e04801a641b79b5b4303c5ae7394.r2.dev\u002Fblog-covers\u002F二十四节气\u002F二十四节气之大雪深入解读.png",[65,32,33,34,35],"Major Snow"]