In Dong Zhongshu's Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals, the gibbon and crane are described as masters of utilizing this principle.
In Dong Zhongshu's Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals, the gibbon and crane are described as masters of utilizing this principle. According to the Huaninanzi, this concept operated as the primary organizing principle in wuxing or "Five Phases" natural philosophy. Later its meaning expanded, and in Zhu Xi's and Cheng Yi's Neo-Confucian metaphysics, this principle was ethically bivalent but ontologically antecedent to li. Zhuangzi noted that "When the Great Clod exhales breath, it is called wind." In Warring States period Daoism, those who were particularly adept at utilizing this could claim to dispense with food and water. Its root meaning comes from the word for "moist emanation," and its logogram resembles steam rising from rice. For 10 points, name this central principle in Chinese thought which is commonly translated as "vital spirit," or "power."
In Dong Zhongshu's Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals, the gibbon and crane are described as masters of utilizing this principle.
{ch'i} or {Qi}