五行相胜 (五行相勝) wǔ xíng xiāng shèng
wǔ xíng xiāng shèng
phrase
the five elements overcome one another
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: title of Chapter 59 in Scroll 13 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. 471)
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- Scroll 5 Tan Jin Wenji 鐔津文集 — count: 1