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Cheng Hao is a well-known thinker in ancient China, though details of his life are limited in publicly available sources. Judging from the three works included in the library, his writings center mainly on philosophy and thought, and are commonly classified under Eastern philosophy. His representative works include The Complete Works of the Two Cheng Brothers (2 volumes), The Surviving Writings of the Two Cheng Brothers, and the Heaven, Earth, and Humanity series. The Surviving Writings records lectures and discussions in a maxim-like style, concise yet rich in argumentation, and is an important text for understanding his thought; The Complete Works gathers relevant writings in a more concentrated form. His writing does not emphasize ornate rhetoric but excels at expounding philosophical principles in plain language, touching on topics such as heavenly principle, mind and nature, and self-cultivation, and it has had a lasting influence within the tradition of Eastern philosophy. Because public sources are limited, his specific experiences and biographical background are difficult to describe in detail; readers may grasp his intellectual style and scholarly concerns through the works mentioned above.