Just share one thing.
Hanfu.
There is wisdom throughout it.
It is all an application of yin and yang and the five phases.
You do not need to explain it.
Japanese things are shrouded in mystique, with the sense of ritual turned all the way up, yet at their core they are bullshit. Western dining is similar: ritual turned all the way up, and bullshit.
What I do is show it.
Take Hanfu. Only when you look deeply into its pattern cutting do you discover why the sleeves are round, why the central axis is needed, and why the neckline is square. These are all applications of yin and yang and the five phases.
Things like this were everywhere in our ancient culture; we simply overlook them now. What I do is move forward, bringing the aesthetics and language of our time into the work. Saying it without saying it.
Put plainly, he knows that seeing the product is enough.
It does not call itself truth,
nor does it call itself philosophy.
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So China has never had philosophy.
And this is the most interesting thing about China:
it says it is called the Dao.
It does not call itself truth,
nor does it call itself philosophy.
Truth is what people believe.
Philosophy is what people think.
Neither is right.
So we can only point to it indirectly,
using a word called Dao to describe it. There is such a thing.
