万物之枢机 (萬物之樞機) wàn wù zhī shūjī

wàn wù zhī shūjī phrase a hinge for myriad things
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Subdomain: , Concept:
Notes: Quote: from Chapter 19 立元神 Establishment of the Primal Spirit 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)