Greetings CHP listeners all over the world.

Lauslau Montgomery here with another China History Podcast episode.

Let's get right on it.

CHI has got to be one of the most interesting concepts to come out of Chinese civilization.

When you're born, you only have as much Chi, as much of this vital force as your two parents gave you.

That was your chi.

But you also had Li.

Li means principal or nature.

That essence of who you are, not physically. This Lee housed all your natural tendencies and everything about you that was related to your specific human nature.

Chi and Lee, maybe you could start to fathom what the whole... teacher. Chi and Lii.

Maybe you could start to fathom what the whole science of Chi Gong might possibly be all about.

Once the idea of Chi was understood, well down through the ages, Chinese masters and even common people from all walks of life

controlled aspects of their Chi that gave them certain powers and in some cases

superpowers. Thirteen was another banner year in the history of confusionism.

That was the year more than a century after Jewshies passing, 20 years after the death of Kubla Khan, the fourth

Yuan Dynasty Emperor Renzung declared the four books as the core texts for the civil service exams, bringing confusionism back after a dark period following the Mongol conquest of the Son.

Renzon was the first of the Mongol emperors to have a confusion bent to him.

He called for the ideology, as packaged and processed by Jushi, who tied everything together created by the five founders, to be folded into the Mongol government administration of China.

This emperor's posthumous temple name couldn't have been more appropriate.

Ren-Sung, what Chinese character more than Ren?

Benevolence can best represent the thought of Konsi.

That's how it always was at the pinnacle of power starting around the Six

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