物质文明和精神文明
Traditional form:
物質文明和精神文明
Pinyin (reading):
wùzhìwénmínghéjīngshénwénmíng
Definitions:
- material and spiritual culture
- matter and mind
- material progress, ideology and culture (philosophic slogan, adopted into Deng Xiaoping theory from 1978)
Characters:
- 物 - thing, substance, matter; creature
- 质 - essence, nature; material, substance
- 文 - culture, literature, writing
- 明 - bright, clear; to explain, to understand, to shed light
- 和 - harmony, peace; calm, peaceful
- 精 - essence, germ, spirit
- 神 - god, spirit; divine, mysterious, supernatural
- 文 - culture, literature, writing
- 明 - bright, clear; to explain, to understand, to shed light
Traditional characters:
- 物 - thing, substance, matter; creature
- 質 - essence, nature; material, substance
- 文 - culture, literature, writing
- 明 - bright, clear; to explain, to understand, to shed light
- 和 - harmony, peace; calm, peaceful
- 精 - essence, germ, spirit
- 神 - god, spirit; divine, mysterious, supernatural
- 文 - culture, literature, writing
- 明 - bright, clear; to explain, to understand, to shed light