Abstract
Faith is an important factor in the spiritual culture of the human race, and one of the “means by which man grasps the world.” It reflects prescience, foresightedness, imaginativeness and a quality of conjecturing, embodying a spiritual pursuit that transcends nature, the self and the society.
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Translator's note: these two citations are from the classic English translation of The Book of Rites by James Legge. Some excerpts of the Chinese classics in English translation in this book are from such widely accepted translators as James Legge, Arthur Waley, etc.
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Zehou (1986).
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Dainian (1994).
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Dainian, Z. (1994). A survey of Chinese culture (pp. 231–265). Beijing: Beijing Normal University Press.
Zehou, L. (1986). History of ancient Chinese thought (p. 306). Beijing: People’s Press.
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Zhuo, X. (2018). The Chinese Understanding of Faith. In: Religious Faith of the Chinese. China Insights. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6379-4_1
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