立元神 lì yuán shén
lì yuán shén
phrase
establishment of the primal spirit
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: title of Chapter 19 in Scroll 6 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 Dong, Queen, and Major tr. 2016, p. 202)