Early Taoist philosophers and alchemists regardedch'i as a vital force inhering in the breath and bodily fluids and developed techniques to alter and control the movement ofch'i within the body; their aim was to achieve physical longevity and spiritual power.]
At the greenmarket, it’s still mostly potatoes and apples. There are no tender greens, fava beans, peas, asparagus, artichokes, sorrel, rhubarb or early strawberries. Those harbingers of the season are said to be full ofchi, or qi, the Chinese word for life force. We’re craving them as we’re craving lighter, brighter-tasting meals, food that is greener and fresher.
2017 January 8, Leslie Hsu Oh, “I tried the Chinese practice of ‘sitting the month’ after childbirth”, inThe Washington Post[4],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on08 January 2017, Health & Science[5]:
According to traditional Chinese medicine, blood carrieschi, your “life force,” which fuels all the functions of the body. When you lose blood, you losechi, and this causes your body to go into a state of yin (cold). When yin (cold) and yang (hot) are out of balance, your body will suffer physical disorders.
Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
In everyday speech, limbs collectively are referred to astay chân orchân tay, but there is no word for an individual limb, apart from the more specifictay(“arm”) andchân(“leg”).
Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Is the meaning "what for" used in the Central dialects actually? Maybe it's a Southern semantic innovation due to competition withgì (which is not weird at all in Vietnamese, cf.đỏ(“red”) vs.hồng(“pink”)).”
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page30
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