Various scholars have verified that viewing beauty-related content on social media encourages valuing these idealized and unrealistic body shapes. A person's ideas, feelings, and perceptions regarding their body are referred to as their body image. A verified scale was used to assess individuals' appearance-related social media awareness. The study collected data from 229 respondents in China, aged 15 to 60, intending to examine whether individuals' preferences for receiving feedback from strangers or close peers would influence their body image concerns. The results show that people who prioritize comments from unknown people about their photos tend to be less satisfied than those who prioritize comments from people close to them. In addition, the study finds that men have a more neutral attitude towards related content, while women have a more positive attitude. In addition, the study highlights that the proportion of men and women who do not engage in photo editing habits is almost equal, suggesting that when examining the influence of social media on body image, further examination of the mental differences between the sexes is required.

Media is an important part of social civilization and has profoundly changed people's daily life. In today's society, anyone can become a new media blogger by posting original works on the Internet, as the communication methods of new media have become more diversified, visualized and entertaining. Undoubtedly, such a simple and rapid form of communication has brought great challenges to the inheritance and dissemination of traditional culture. In order to alleviate the negative consequences of contemporary new media on the inheritance of traditional culture, traditional media practitioners and cultural scholars should provide more cultural support, establish correct values for new media, encourage them to participate in the construction and development of social culture and promote rational thinking and cultural cultivation and connotation through understanding the cultural support provided by cultural scholars and avoiding over-entertainment. The traditional media and the new media are realizing diversified co-development, bringing the new media a broader vision and deeper cultural values through the traditional culture, so that each of them can take what they need and benefit the social civilization on the basis of integration and competition, and their influence will be largely related to the development of the society.

This paper is based on speech of master Hui-neng and his well-known " Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch", which showed us the endless wisdom by Hui-neng’s enlightenment. There are some different version of “Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch” till now in the world. Based on master Jing-hui’s viewpoint, “the original Sutras of Caoxi" was the oldest version. No matter how the methods of enlightenment are different, they are helpful to see one’s self-nature. Let us think about what Chinese Zen is, what the awakening mind is, and so on. In the process of Zen being introduced and inherited into Japan, this paper selects two representative figures of Japanese Zen. One is master Myoan Eisai who was the founder of Rinzai Zen, and the other is master Eihei Dogen who brought the Sōtō school of Zen from China to Japan. The paper introduces the influence and application of Zen in Japan at the original time and in modern Japan till now.

The significance of this paper lies in the analysis of medieval religious art in China and Europe, which sheds light on how the intersection of religion and art reflects cultural and societal values. To understand the delicate balance between artistic expression and religious influence, this study delves into the development and evolution of religious art during the medieval period. The comprehensive comparative analysis is conducted using an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach that integrates perspectives from art history, history, religious studies, and aesthetics. The findings reveal that while initially, art in both regions was predominantly influenced by religious ideals, it gradually asserted its independence and shifted from a God-centered to a human-centered approach. The results of this study imply that despite its oppressive origins, religious art managed to harness religion as a catalyst for innovation and enrichment, showcasing the resilience and adaptive capacities of art.

Barbie has been a subject of both praise and criticism when it comes to feminism. After the release of the live-action film Barbie in 2023, the discussion of gender identity was triggered. This article analyzes the relationship between Barbie dolls and Hollywood movies focusing on post-modern women's self-identity through the body. Barbie is regarded as a cultural symbol of the male gaze body design that solidifies gender stereotypes. The 2023 Barbie encourages women to identify with themselves and their bodies, from which they can feel the strength and charm of women and understand the complexity and diversity of culture. First, this work will briefly discuss the effect of Barbie brand image in the introduction. Secondly, this article will do an analysis of the leading roles in the movie and connect them with the genderized dilemma that most modern females are facing. Then, the development of Barbie images, their inverse relationships with feminist ideologies, and the underlying consumerism ideas in the Mettel brand industry will be further discussed. Finally, the core logic behind the male gaze and patriarchy will be combined and presented.

By comparing the Music thoughts contained in two classical music books, Record of Music (yue ji樂記) and Plato’s Republic, this paper analyzes the similarities and differences in their cognition of "the origin, essence, and function of music" due to their different social backgrounds and cultures. Both Record of Music and Plato’s Republic were born in the era of the alternation of the old and the new in the slave society. However, the slave society in the Spring and Autumn Period of China and the slave society in the democratic era of ancient Greece have different specific historical characteristics, and their different characteristics in economic development are bound to be reflected in ideology and culture. Thus, different cultures have developed different music.

This study aims to compare and analyze the changes in Whig's political thoughts by the Glorious Revolution and how these changes Shape their political ideology to gain valuable insights into the formation of modern British political ideology in the specific period of 1679-1760. By using the research method of document analysis, we deeply analyzed 20 research results of different scholars from home and abroad on the Whig Party and the Glorious Revolution and summarized the main changes in the Whig Party's political thought. Our findings indicate that under the influence of the Glorious Revolution, the political thought of the Whig party took place mainly in four aspects: The role of Parliament, Contractual theory, Attitudes towards the monarchical power, and religious toleration. This study provides a new insight into the development of Whig political thought from the perspective of the Glorious Revolution.

This paper focuses on the impacts of Chinese phonology on students who learn English as a second language from the production and perception sides. For the production side, this paper focuses on the impacts of Chinese phonology on students’ English accents, taking the phoneme /ɪ/ as an example, based on the framework of negative transfer proposed by Edward Thorndike. For the perception side, this work explores whether there is a correlation between the students’ pronunciation accuracy and accent perception. In this work, ten Chinese international students were invited as subjects for the experiment, and the matched-guise test was chosen as the methodology. The results in this work show that negative transfer did occur when Chinese students pronounce the phoneme /ɪ/, and it seems that pronunciation accuracy doesn't correlate to their perception of accents. The findings have implications for English education and provide suggestions for Chinese students to improve their pronunciation accuracy as well as their perception of accents.

This paper explores the semantic and pragmatic meaning of smiling emoji occurring with text in Chinese online communication and discovers what factors might have an effect on context meaning. Five top popular smiling emojis from WeChat have been selected to set scenes that are most common in daily life. Based on the multimodal analysis framework, how people use emojis in the text will be analyzed to discover representational, interpersonal, and textual features of emojis. It is found that visual graphic features, age, relationship between interlocutors, and structure can all influence the meaning of emoji. People use different ways to use emoji to achieve their goals and hidden purposes. In general, emojis often occur at the end of the text, substituting or assisting words to achieve speech acts and promote emotional feeling.

While the genitive marker in English is early encountered in language teaching, the result of learning is seldom researched over the past 20 years in mainland China. This paper describes queries of how the genitive marker in English is used in British National Corpus and by Chinese native speakers in Longman Learners Corpus. Results showed that: 1) Chinese native speakers and English native speakers have different lexical choices for the possessors and the possessums before and after the marker; 2) the difference might be because of culture, mother tongue, and the learners’ limited understanding of English word meaning; 3) Chinese learners sometimes overuse ’s in a N-N genitive. The contribution of this paper is to alarm on non-idiomatic usages of small, critical English language morphemes by Chinese learners of English as a second or foreign language (ESL or EFL), and even greater issues of language learning attitude and teaching methodology.