Zhang counsels the aspiring litterateur to cultivate an
of reverential atten- tion (jing 敬), a state of mind in which the spirited aspects of one’s nature— one’s qi—are collected and controlled.
Zhang, Xuecheng_ Han, Yu_ Ivanhoe, P. J._ Zhang, Xuecheng - On ethics and history _ essays and letters of Zhang Xuecheng (2010, Stanford University Press) - libgen.lc
