物質文明和精神文明

1. • material and spiritual culture
2. • matter and mind
3. • material progress, ideology and culture (philosophic slogan, adopted into Deng Xiaoping theory from 1978)

Character by character

• 物(wù)thing
• 質(zhì)character
• 文(wén)surname Wen
• 明(míng)Ming Dynasty
• 和(hé)and
• 精(jīng)essence
• 神(shén)God
• 文(wén)surname Wen
• 明(míng)Ming Dynasty