英文摘要
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China admires characters and deems them as the sacred products. What renders such an attitude and what kind of impact has it produced? Characters are one indicator of the civilization. In the western societies, the phonetic written words are symbols of languages away from the mind since they are symbols with the secondary significance. In China, characters representing the written words with significance are the second language; moreover, they are sacred for the absence of written words. Despite the speculation of languages and characters in early Chin Dynasty, the importance of languages was weakened after Han Dynasty. Therefore, the Confucian classical studies firmed up the importance of characters; consequently, characters are deemed as the critical fundamental of domination-the beginning of royal governance- characters are both the ancient literature and a basis of roads to the saints' minds. Therefore, those who master characters not only grasp the knowledge but also own the symbolic significance of dominant legitimacy. In addition, that Emperor Han Wu exclusively honored Confucian classical studies rendered that the Confucian classical studies became the political ideology to penetrate into all dimensions of social life, including diplomacy, adjudication and economic life. The basis of political measures all came from the characters in the Confucian classical studies.
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