What are the general characteristics of China's traditional thinking?

China's ancient thinking includes Yin and Yang, Five Elements and Taiji. , with the characteristics of early thinking. Intuition, wholeness and fuzziness are its main thinking characteristics.

Broadly speaking, all ethnic groups have this characteristic in childhood, but compared with the positive thinking mode in modern western countries, it largely replaced the fuzzy holistic thinking in early western countries, and the characteristics in China's thinking mode continued into modern times.

First, from the perspective of empirical science, there are serious defects in the integrity, fuzziness and intuition of thinking, which limit the accurate thinking of objects and the development of empirical science. But in a broad sense, this way of thinking is a necessary stage of all thinking. Grasping things as a whole and paying attention to the movement and connection of things is one of the qualities and requirements that all mature ways of thinking must have, but it should be based on scientific and correct thinking.

Secondly, it ignores the thinking mode of logical reasoning and theoretical system. From the content, China's traditional philosophical thinking mode attaches great importance to practicality, reality and human relations, and emphasizes that theory must maintain ethical norms and is conducive to governance, so it is easier to explain directly and intuitively, which is more in line with people's moral standards than logical reasoning; From the formal point of view, China's traditional philosophical thinking mode does not attach importance to the expression of macro and system theory, and advocates "setting images to express reason" and "expressing meaning subtly", thus forming a pattern of interdependence and interaction with its practical (intuitive and direct) characteristics in content. But in thinking, its logic and certainty are backward.