官制象天 guān zhì xiàng tiān
guān zhì xiàng tiān
phrase
the system of government should be like the heavens
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: title of Chapter 24 in Scroll 7 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. 257)