事之所系 (事之所繫) shì zhī suǒ xì

shì zhī suǒ xì phrase what binds everything together
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from Chapter 12 十指 Ten Orders in Scroll 5 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. 169)

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