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Chinese Culture Session
The CAS time at 3pm on Nov.7 saw a special session on Chinese culture in the SHBS auditorium. Mr. Huang Qian, the guest lecturer, is the founder of “Foundamental Math Logic of The Book of Changes”, a Public Human discipline, and a guest Lecturer of the CIFAL Global Network(CGN) of UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research. For more than a decade, he has devoted himself to the research, innovation and teaching of Chinese Yidao culture (rooted in The Book of Changes). Today, he visited our beautiful school, and gave students a lively and interesting lecture about Yidao culture, which focused on "the Chinese creative thinking system" and "the super-dimensional upgrade of talent to genius".
Mr. Huang, who is very good at explaining "Yi Theory" by comparing Chinese and western thoughts and cultures, said that "Yi theory" is a "unique language" that does not need to be translated. In other words, it’s a universal language for human beings. It is not only a "thinking system" adopted exclusively by the Chinese nation, but also a "booster" that inspires the development of science in the East and the West. Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham, a British modern biochemist and expert on the history of science and technology, once described the system of the Book of Changes as the "third" great component of Chinese scientific thought after the thoughts of Yin and Yang and the five elements were created. Leibniz, the inventor of binary, shared similar thoughts with Shao Yong, a Chinese medical scientist who lived more than 1,000 years ago by using the hexagrams in "Eight diagrams". Shao’s handwriting left on the hexagrams could be vaguely identified as the embryonic form of binary. Even earlier, in 1157, some Japanese mathematician had done a set of mathematical studies using the Chinese hexagram hexagrams.
In the traditional Chinese "six arts", "mathematics" is one of the compulsory subjects. Ancient Chinese people had long mastered a range of high-tech sciences, such as mathematics, physics, engineering and climatology. The elaboration and magnificence of the First Emperor's mausoleum has provided the best evidence.
So, how is “mathematics”embodied in“the Book of Changes”?
"One" is the largest number in Chinese culture, and "one" is also the key to understanding the "Yi theory". The so-called Eight Diagrams is to divide a whole into eight parts, and the so-called five elements is to divide the whole into five parts.
Mr. Huang emphasized the thinking system of "consistency" in Chinese culture. He said that Yi theory can apply to every aspect of our life rather than to only one aspect. Therefore, we should adopt a holistic view, which means the whole is not“if not black then white”, but the conversion from black into white or vice versa, or a mixture of black and white, which is the wisdom of “Yi Theory”.
The core of holistic view lies in the way of “Yin and Yang”. The "two" separated from the "one" of "the holistic view" are "Yin and Yang". When people have Yin and Yang thinking, they can see through things and find out their essence and internal logic behind.
While explaining the theory of "Yin and Yang", he said he could use two separate simple lines to keep distinguishing the world, gradually clarifying it, and developing a multi-dimensional understanding of it.
Meanwhile, Mr.Huang also explained the famous saying "Learning without thinking leads to confusion, thinking without learning leads to danger" by fitting it into the mindset of Ying and Yang. If "Learning" is the "Yang", "no learning" is "Yin" and "thinking" is the "Yang", "no thinking" is "Yin", then the whole world might appear in four states. Breaking away from the mindset and figuring out what lies deeply behind is exactly the essence of Chinese culture.
Besides,Mr.Huang also mentioned that another core view held by Chinese culture is “to be able to achieve success one way or another”, which values doing everything to the “mean” or impartial extent. Just as the human body has a left brain which controls logical thinking and a right brain which determines artistic and linguistic talents, all-round development depends only on a "holistic integration". Such wisdom also helps people maintain emotional stability, which is crucial to learning. Only with inner peace can we absorb and accumulate knowledge, think rationally, and have foresight, insight, development and creativity.
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