My intention is to express the traditional Chinese culture, which is Tao（道）, virtue（德）, benevolence（仁）, righteousness（义） and courtesy（礼）. This is the minimum moral code advocated by Confucianism. These five words can reflect the fine moral traditions of our country. I want to combine these five words with contemporary society to reflect the spirit and connotation of the times. The meaning of these words is portrayed by taking photos of different people. In order to make these photographs more interesting, I decided to take close up photographs of people’s faces. This has an effect on fully demonstrating the words and also gaining attentions from the audience. For my final photographs, I will choose five best ones that shows “Tao（道）, virtue（德）, benevolence（仁）, righteousness（义） and courtesy（礼）”. In terms of the editing process, I will insert each word on a photo that can best reflect its connotation.

Secondly, I want to divide a picture into black and white, which implies the Chinese Tai Chi diagram. Although the Tai Chi diagram is not a language, it uses black and white to express a lot of information. The Tai Chi diagram uses black and white to form a pattern. Black and white are the ideal expression of the ancient Yin and Yang theory. The night is black and the day is white. Black also represents “Yin”, on the contrary, white represents “Yang”, which is what the ancients often said that there is Yin in Yang and Yang in Yin. We can simply understand it as “Good people also have shortcomings, and bad people also have good intentions. Nothing in the universe is absolute.” This is the dialectical thought of ancient China, and Lao Tzu was one of the earliest people to create this thought.