{"content":[{"text":"throughout the earth (China was the world) those that were \n considered the support of the earth. There was one in each cardinal \n point and the fifth in the center which had a ritual importance. In \n these the monarchs made requests, prayed to the Heavens and \n made sacrifices because the spirits lived in these. Tai, that of the \n East, was the creator of human beings, controlled the duration of \n life and corresponded to spring and even in this day and age it has \n sacred connotations. It was the principal place to summon the spirits \n of hun and those of po. The mountain of the West represented \n autumn and the death of nature as part of the life cycle of human \n beings. It is important to highlight that the school of wuxing did not \n value life and death in a positive or negative way as the main object \n was the harmonic equilibrium among the cosmic forces.","bbox":{"left":0.142928,"top":0.14341,"width":0.714618,"height":0.293979}},{"text":"Po is translated as the soul, a sensitive terrestrial soul, vigour, spirit, \n a physical manifestation of a sensitive soul, and hun also like soul, \n as the vital source of a human being, mood. It is the human soul \n produced by the progressive condensation of air breathed in; the \n Taoists considered Hun as one of the three main essentials, that \n after death was kept alive with offerings from the living.","bbox":{"left":0.142928,"top":0.459701,"width":0.7145779999999999,"height":0.13583299999999998}},{"text":"It is always a risk to speak of the spirit as for an occidental the idea \n of a spirit is different from that of an oriental. For occidentals the \n soul is one and indivisible but for a Chinese, if as we have mentioned \n has the idea of Shen as a force and energy that forms an individual \n in the widest sense of the term, from this Shen more specific \n concepts are derived to designate those particular elements which \n form an integral part of a human being.","bbox":{"left":0.142928,"top":0.617846,"width":0.7146000000000001,"height":0.15842600000000007}},{"text":"We speak on one hand, of the body po, flesh and bones and on \n the other hun, a spiritual element by which hun and po show the \n composition of man. Lingshu 8 says: that which moves with Shen \n actively giving form is Hun which implies the existence of a global \n Shen; the potential capacity to structure is represented by po.","bbox":{"left":0.142928,"top":0.798583,"width":0.7146170000000001,"height":0.11337499999999989}},{"text":"Page 2 - SHEN. HUN. PO.","bbox":{"left":0.638658,"top":0.949945,"width":0.20633500000000005,"height":0.016337999999999964}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}