Philisophical texts of Qi in Aikido
The earliest texts that speak of qi give some indications of how the concept developed. The philosopher Mo Di (also known as Mo Zi or "Master Mo") used the word qi to refer to noxious vapors that would in due time arise from a corpse were it not buried at a sufficient depth.[3] He reported that early civilized humans learned how to live in houses to protect their qi from the moisture that had troubled them when they lived in caves.[4] He also associated maintaining one's qi with providing oneself adequate nutrition.[5] And, in regard to another kind of qi he recorded how some people performed a kind of prognostication by observing the qi (clouds) in the sky.[6]
In the Analects of Confucius, (composed from the notes of individual students sometime after his death in 479 B.C.), qi can mean "breath",[7] and it can be combined with the Chinese word for blood (making 血氣, xue-qi, blood and breath)and that concept can be used to account for motivational characteristics. The Analects, 16:7, says:
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