Recently, Prof. Chen Yan, vice president of Shandong University(SDU), delivered a lecture about Confucianism, Moism, Daoism and Legalism at the invitation of Lakeside Forum in Suzhou. Zhang Xiaoying, the deputy director of the administrative commission of Suzhou Dushu lake higher education town (SDLHET), Lu Mingxin, executive vice president of the Suzhou Institute of SDU attended this forum.

Chen Yan elaborated the Chinese traditional culture essence, which included the ideologies among Confucius\Mencius\Chuang-tzu\Hanfeizi and so on. And Chen expounded that how their ideologies Influence and model Chinese ways of thinking and behavior in complementary ways.

Chen’s report with a dialectic thinking and a sense of humor impressed every audience, taking us back to the era of contention of a hundred schools

of thought. Everyone enjoyed the beauty of Chinese sinology in nearly three hours.