What does humanities refer to?

The Chinese word for humanities first appeared in the Tuan of Ben Gua in the I Ching: "The intersection of rigidity and softness, astronomy also. Civilization to stop, humanities also. Observe the astronomy to observe the changes of the times; observe the humanities to transform the world." In Song Cheng Yi's Yichuan Yi Chuan, Volume 2, the interpretations read, "Tianwen is the reason of heaven; Humanities is the way of man. Astronomy, that is, the sun, moon and stars of the wrong column, cold, summer and yin and yang of the generation of change, to observe its operation, in order to observe the four times of the speed of change. Humanities, the humanities of the order, view the humanities to teach the world, the world into its rituals and customs, is the saint with Ben's way." Humanities originally referred to the various traditional attributes of man. \x0d\\\\x0d\\broadly speaking humanities is the culture created by human beings themselves, and naturally it is the original and natural. China's "Dictionary" says: "Humanities refers to the various cultural phenomena of human society. \x0d\\\\x0d\ in modern times, the word humanism is used to translate Humanism, this word is the European Renaissance some intellectuals, in the process of transcending and opposing the religious traditions of Europe in the Middle Ages, the Greek and Roman classical culture as a kind of dependence, with this approach to return to the secular humanist tradition. These people were called "humanists", and later on, the learning done by humanists became "humanism". In the 19th century, there was the so-called humanities in Europe, and the so-called humanities began to appear in the 20th century in the universities of Britain and the United States. The meaning of humanities is not to say that humanities are explained by a scientific theory, but to say that it is a kind of quest for knowledge about human beings and a kind of exploration of human knowledge. \x0d\ Humanistic thinking is, at its root, a kind of abstract metaphysics of existence. In fact, Humanity ("humanism" - there is no etymological basis for it in China), Humanity, its fundamental idea is to think about human beings from the perspective of human beings ( Humanbeingsconsideredasagroup;thehumanrace), thinking about the root of human existence, which leads to the following transcendental issues: human nature, human origin, the relationship between human beings and nature, the relationship between human beings and God, and the relationship between human beings and human beings. Because it thinks of human beings as classes, we say that its thinking is beyond concrete human affairs and limited existence. From this point of view, the word "humanity" has its roots in ancient Greece and Rome (Humanity can also be interpreted in the West as ThelanguagesandliteraturesofancientGreeceandRome;theclassics), and it is rooted in ancient Greek thought and its ways. Ancient Greek thought and its ways as its roots. \x0d\ On how the understanding of the humanities by modern Chinese intellectuals has changed under the dual influence of tradition and the West, see the related articles by Li Ou-fan and Wang Hui.