天地之前 tiān dì zhī qián

tiān dì zhī qián phrase before heaven and earth
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Notes: Quote: from Chapter 13 重政 The Importance of Governance in Scroll 5 of 春秋繁露 “Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals,” attributed to 董仲舒 Dong Zhongshu 179–104 BCE (Dong, Queen, and Major tr. 2016, p. 172)