阳尊阴卑 (陽尊陰卑) yáng zūn yīn bēi
yáng zūn yīn bēi
phrase
yang is noble, yin is base
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: title of Chapter 43 in Scroll 11 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. 393)