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Originally Posted by LFJ
It is just that nowadays people write both as 气, and forget about the separate concepts, as you have. This is a huge mistake, because there are many finer details to these concepts which you will be missing.
No. You just seem a little too naive and uneducated on the topic, while making very large unfounded claims here.
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is it nowadays ? is it a huge mistake?
Translate the following and see where do you stand with your opinion.
氣源自於古字气，
最早是雲氣的意思，是個象形字[6]。[/SIZE]
它有呼吸、氣息的意思[7]，也有米飯的意思[8]。它很快被引申，具備天氣、氣候、節氣、氣味乃至於風氣、流行等等意思，也發展出許多異體字，
如炁、餼，在唐朝之後逐漸定型為氣。
至宋代之後，道教思想家為了區別先天的氣與後天的氣，採用古字炁來代表先天的氣，代表無極，氣則被當成是後 天的氣，為太極。這兩個字的意義又被分開。
但是除了道教文獻之外，通常都以氣來概括。
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%A3
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Now here you post something which makes the same point that you refute-
that of having two separate concepts, i.e. "先天元气" and "后天水谷之精气". These (结合而化生) combine to make up "Genuine Qi" 真气.
Originally the character 炁 refers to the former "Intrinsic Qi" (先天之炁), while the character 气 refers to the latter "Extrinsic Qi" (后天之气). These combined create "Genuine Qi" (真气).
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What's wrong to call it 先天元气 instead of 先天之炁 without using the character 炁?