中西文化Reviewing.doc

I. Fill in the blanks: 1. When symbols come to stand for ideas corresponding to individual words and each word is represented by a separate symbol, the result is ideographic表意的, or logographic语标的, writing. ShuoWenJieZi is in fact an encyclopedia百科全书, the history and the culture of the ancient society, in which the logos理性 are of special importance. The system of cultural concepts since ancient times will be constructed if the logo structures and the original meaning of more than 9000 characters are comprehended as a whole. It is more distinct独特的and absolute绝对的 in comparison with other historical literatures. The formative structures of more than 9000 characters in Shuowenjiezi and their corresponding original meaning are thus organically inter-woven相互编织 into a systematic 系统的body, which constitutes构成 the historical as well as cultural background of the ancient society in China. The reason for adopting the “comprehensively study” approach is meant to add new insights in the arduous works aiming at the construction of a consistent historical background. Such a background, especially the lost parts in other literatures, is the associative product similar to the analogous thought of ancient Chinese in creation their pictographs. Story language can create a magic interspace空间 for the diseased. Stories, ballads民歌 and rituals 宗教仪式may function as a remedy治疗 of reorganization整顿 and rearrangement for those people suffering from disorderness混乱. The origin of things determines its nature. Therefore, to explore the origin of things is to explore its nature. The answer to the questions on the origin of the universe in mythological tales holds the key to exploring the nature of universe. Only when human beings seize the origin of the universe, can the knowledge and value systems of humans have a solid and reliable foundation. Verily真实地 at the first Chaos混沌 came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth（Gaea）, the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks山顶