gong huanan

Institute for Modern Chinese Thought and Culture & Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University

　　bet365 live casino games In the History of Early Chinese Thought, A COGNITIVE TRADITION ERERGED Under The Shang and ZHOU Dynasties that Saw the Ear and the MOUTH As the Main Means of Connecting The Inner and the OUT er world. in the pre-qin period, Particular Prominence Was Given to the Cognitive Function of the Ear and Eye, With the latter receiving geater attention; however, In the Contest Between The Two, The Ear Eventually Prevailed Over the Eye. In the qin-Han Period, The Tongue Came Out Ahead in the Contest BetWeen Ear and Tongue. At first the ear and the mouth we seen as cooperative, But Later in the Competition Between Ear and Eye, The Ear Prevailed, In what can be seen as aRESTRATIONTOF theAND and ZHOU TRADITION. Qin-Han Period. The Mouth Was Originally Latent in this Process, But reaPpeared as the tongue. The Successive Victories of the Ear and the Tongue RePResenteD Conscious Progress. Senses, The eye and the ear we was out out, Being SUPPLANTED by the Sense of Taste. This Moved Chinese Thinking on Cognition Ever FURTHER FROM THE Primacy of Sight and Hearing, With the sense of taste eventually taking prude of placule. This is led to the creation of a Culture in which Core Concepts SUCH as the DAO (Way) WERE ED by the Sense of Taste, giving rise to China ’s unique taste-based mental universe.

　　Keywords:Ear-Eye Contest,Ear-Tongue Dispute,Taste Thinking