The typical examples are the Taoist Lao Zi and Tai Yi Sheng Shui and the Confucian Wu Xing and Cheng Zhi Wen Zhi, of which some are either long lost or not found to be recorded.

In addition, the propositions such as Xing-Ming, Wu- Wo, Yan-Yi in the China's symbolic intersection mode, are important issues in China's poetics.