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Chinese Five Elements Conceptual Metaphors on Time and Space

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Wu Di
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Wu Di
Available Online December 2018.
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10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.97How to use a DOI?
Keywords
five elements; conceptual metaphor; embodiment; culture
Abstract

Five Element Principle occupies an important position in traditional Chinese philosophy. This paper explores the conceptual metaphors of Five Elements on time and space, which might help construe the cognitive mechanism on time and space of Chinese ancients. The analysis shows that Chinese ancients tended to understand time and space through the concrete elements which is thought as the elementary materials to construct universe. The cognitive mechanism also attributes to Chinese unique culture model Daoism.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2018
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10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.97
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.97How to use a DOI?
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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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