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The term “qi gong” 氣功 is published in a poem in the Poetry of the Tang Dynasty (618-907):

《贈進士李守微》韓嶼
一定童顏老歲華，貧寒遊歷貴人家。煉成正氣功應大， 養得元神道不差。舄曳鶴毛幹毾e6，杖攜筇節瘦槎牙。

From Google translate:

"Scholars presented scholars Shou micro" Han Yu
Certain Tong Yan old age, poor people visit your home. Consolidation of qigong should be large, keep the dollar is not bad. 鹤 鹤 crane hair dry 毾 e6, stick with 筇 section thin fangs.

Can someone help with the translation?

While the text talks about practicing your qi, it is not the term qigong. The parsing is different. 煉成正氣 -> "Practice develops/grows the Zhengqi" and 功應大 belongs together and it means that the achievements from this are great.

Thanks, so 正氣 zheng qi (right spirit?) can be traced back to 《抱朴子》pao pu zi, Jin (300-343 AD), 《内篇》nei pian (Internal chapter)《极言》ji yan (extreme words).

Sorry, Right spirit 正气 is from Confucian writer Liu Xiang 刘向 (Western Han Dynasty 206 BC – 9 AD)