Abstract

Along with the trend of being popularized language all over the world, more and more people engage their enthusiasm in learning Chinese. However, some foreigners and even not Chinese-major native speakers encounter numerous obstacles in the process of reading Chinese literatures, especially frustrated in the unique structure of Chinese characters, as well as the cultural background, thinking methods, and core value conceptions beyond words. From the perspective of practical application, this study offered several available dimensions of reading classics written in Chinese, mainly focusing on the traditional philosophical texts which were often appeared by the style of prose. The reading dimensions would be described as follow. The first, distinguish “general vocabulary” and “term.” Secondly, differentiate the category of “metaphysical” or “physical,” which was still involved in the speech atmosphere as well as principle visions between these two categories. The last, master the rhetoric techniques and catch the ideas beyond words. We advocated that revealing the lesson beyond words was a rhetoric technique, while conceal the lesson beyond words was another. When it came to the question whether speech was the full expression of ideas, it was another brilliant discussion in this study. In sum, only when readers could break through the obstacles of network organized by words and rhetoric techniques, as well as wipe out the fixed attachment in speech, they could penetrate the philosophical ideas and unfold the treasure of wisdom beyond words.