Tracing Chen Yuan s first thirty years of educational experience from 1898 when he started teaching at a private elementary school to 1929 when he took the presidency of the Fu Jen Catholic University,two threads are found to have run through his career: one is his social concern and responsibility and the other is his interest in historical research.

His literary attainment should be owed more to his academic ambition of "analyzing the traditional culure for China s modernizaton" and his academic purport of "extremely wise and the Golden Mean" than his intellectual family and early childhood edu.

Just as"a poem portrays a painting and a painting expresses a poem",Ancient musical instrument of seven strings music exhibits itself with a strong literature purport in organizing,titling,theme,music image and aesthetic point of view.