Hindawi Complexity Volume 2021, Article ID 6693753, 15 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6693753 Research Article Culture under Complex Perspective: A Classification for Traditional Chinese Cultural Elements Based on NLP and Complex Networks Lin Qi ,1 Yuwei Wang,2 Jindong Chen,1,3 Mengjie Liao,1 and Jian Zhang 1,4 1Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China 2Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA 3Beijing International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Intelligent Decision and Big Data Application, Beijing 100192, China 4Beijing World Urban Circular Economy System (Industry) Collaborative Innovation Center, Beijing 100192, China Correspondence should be addressed to Lin Qi;
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[email protected] Received 29 December 2020; Revised 16 February 2021; Accepted 17 March 2021; Published 8 April 2021 Academic Editor: Rosa M. Benito Copyright © 2021 Lin Qi et al. .is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. .e cultural element is the minimum unit of a cultural system. .e systematic categorizing, organizing, and retrieval of the traditional Chinese cultural elements are essential prerequisites for the realization of effective extracting and rational utilization, as well as the prerequisite for exploiting the contemporary value of the traditional Chinese culture. To build an objective, integrated, and reliable classification method and a system of traditional Chinese cultural elements, this study takes the text of Taiping Imperial Encyclopedia in Northern Song Dynasty as the primary data source.