As a key word of Chinese culture,“qi”is undoubtedly universally significant like the other concepts.In spite of that,its universal meaning was inevitably derived from its original one and has evolved out of it.Because of long time,the history river has already washed such evolution away and no trace can be found now.Therefore,we have to make a careful in-terpretation of it from a perspective of etymology in order to know the cultural and literary connotations of this word.%“气”作为中国文化(文论)的关键词无疑同其他概念范畴一样具有普遍的意义，但其普遍意义必然是从气字的具体的原始意义中升华发展出来的。只是由于年代的久远，历史的长河已经把“气”概念生成演化的过程冲刷得踪迹难寻。因此，想要探明“气”文化底蕴和文论内涵，首先必须从字源学的角度进行一番审慎的考释。
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