务刚其气 (務剛其氣) wù gāng qí qì
wù gāng qí qì
phrase
to strive to maintain one's vital force
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from Scroll 17, Chapter 78 of 春秋繁露 “Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals,” attributed to 董仲舒 Dong Zhongshu 179–104 BCE (Amies 2021 tr.; see also tr. by Queen 1999, p. 290)
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- 卷六十一 左周黃列傳 Volume 61: Biographies of Zuo, Zhou, Huang Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 1
- 卷十七 天地之行第七十八 威德所生第七十九 如天之為第八十 天地陰陽第八十一 天道施第八十二 Scroll 17 Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露 — count: 1