Archives: Glossary

Each entry gives the term in traditional and simplified form, its pinyin, the senses it carries in the classical corpus, the passages where it does real work, and how published translations have rendered it.

  • 春夏養陽,秋冬養陰

    chūn xià yǎng yáng, qiū dōng yǎng yīn

    Nourishing yang in spring and summer

    The line that set the pattern for seasonal therapy, and one of the most argued-over sentences in the corpus. Read simply, it says: work with the season's own movement instead of against it.

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