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Analyses of Confucian Value Discourses: Cross-Cultural Construction Paths Rooted in Ritual-Music Civilization and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Author(s)

Ying Yang1, Xiaojun Yang2,*, Wenbo Yang3,*

Affiliation(s)

1School of Foreign Languages, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, China 2School of Foreign Languages, Guangzhou Institute of Science and Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China 3Graduate Studies in Business, College of Business Administration and Accountancy, De La Salle University-Dasmarinas, Dasmarinas, Philippines *Corresponding Author

Abstract

Chinese civilization features an inherently continuous cultural inheritance evolving dynamically through inheritance, reform and innovation. The cultural discourse of ancient China transformed from the theocratic sacrificial discourse of the Xia and Shang dynasties to humanistic rational discourse centered on ethical order and people’s livelihood in Western Zhou ritual-music civilization and Spring-Autumn Confucianism. This ideological transformation laid the spiritual foundation of Chinese civilization including valuing morality and people, harmony between human and nature, and harmony without uniformity, and provides historical resources for contemporary cross-cultural communication of Chinese cultural discourse. This paper sorts out the generation logic, core categories and contemporary practical value of Chinese cultural discourse by combing the evolution from ritual-music civilization to Confucian ideology. Taking traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a typical practical carrier of Confucian discourse in life sciences, this study analyzes the difficulties and solutions of Chinese cultural cross-cultural communication, and proposes multi-dimensional construction paths covering theoretical framework, semantic negotiation and digital multi-modal communication. Historical practices of Confucian localization in East Asia and Sinology development in Europe prove that effective cross-cultural discourse construction requires indigenous rooting, adaptive transformation and universal value integration. The research provides theoretical references for enhancing China’s international cultural discourse power and facilitating equal dialogue among civilizations.

Keywords

Ritual-Music Civilization; Confucian Ideology; Cultural Discourse; Cross-Cultural Communication; Traditional Chinese Medicine; Universal Values

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