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Jī Yù Héng Huán Wŏ Líng Hé
jade [weights] on a graduated steelyard arm,
[all of it] returning and revolving in marvellous power and harmony,
Zhù Jiā Kōng Hǎi Shén Fēng Huí Hùn Cuì Fēng Pán Yǎn Tiān Fú Yì
Sì Qì
Concentrating the mind and the eyes upon this circuit,
the emptiness of the Sky (Kong) like the Sea (Hai),
crowded with Divine Spirits (Shen) in the wind circling and muddling around
emerald-green Kingfisher Peak.
Curling round so as to lay on one's back in the Sky as if swimming and floating,
shaded from the the Four Airs of Compatibility (Coldness, Heat, Lukewarm, and Cool).
Míng Qīng Yī Guŏ Dì Tŭ Shān Chuān Lín Mù Miǎn Píng Yī Dĕng Wú Fù Gāo
Xià Tŭ
From the Ming to the Qing Dynasty [i.e., 1368-1644],
the entire country and all of its land,
the mountains and rivers and forests,
reflected back on remote times, when all things were equal and first-rate,
Nothing 'went
up or down in the earth' (i.e., no relative superiority or inferiority),
so that the unrefined and unenlightened native peoples,
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