The Huainanzi is an ancient Chinese text that consists of a collection of essays that resulted from a series of scholarly debates held at the court of...
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of the many titles given to one of the most famous parables from the Huainanzi (淮南子; 'Master of Huainan'), chapter 18 (人間訓; Rénjiānxùn; 'In the World...
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The Legend of Huainanzi (originally titled 淮南子传奇) is a TV animation series produced by CCTV Animation Co. LTD, Huainan Media Industry Development Centre...
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Zhulong (mythology) (section Huainanzi)
north are the Frozen Mountain, and the Torch Dragon, glaring red." The Huainanzi (2nd century BCE) has a section called the "Treatise on Topography" (4)...
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He is very brutal and always terrorises the countryside. According to Huainanzi, Fengxi destroyed a lot of villages and their farming lands while killing...
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Chinese creation myths (section Huainanzi)
own unique creation myth, but analysis remains uncertain. The 139 BC Huainanzi, an eclectic text compiled under the direction of the Han prince Liu An...
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to list his successors. An older and more famous reference is in the Huainanzi; it tells how, prior to Shennong, people were sickly, wanting, starved...
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S2CID 164550058 – via JSTOR. Liu An (compiler), Xu Shen (annotator). Huainanzi, "Survey Obscurities". Main text: 「夫死生同域,不可脅陵,勇武一人,為三軍雄。」; Annotation:...
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people", were created from her "dragg[ing] a string through mud". In the Huainanzi, there is a description of a great battle between deities that broke the...
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Qiqi (tilting vessel) (section Huainanzi)
instead of qi (器), written with the yòu (宥, "lenient") loan character (Huainanzi) or yòu (侑, "urge to drink") clarification (Wenzi). Modern scholars such...
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and Earth in Early Han Thought: Chapters Three, Four, and Five of the Huainanzi, p. 18 Archived 21 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine. SUNY Press (New...
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Taoist meditation (section Huainanzi)
practitioners continued early techniques and developed new ones. The (139 BCE) Huainanzi, which is an eclectic compilation attributed to Liu An, frequently describes...
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Wuji (philosophy) (section Huainanzi)
—(Knoblock 1988, chapter 2, p. 155) The (2nd century BCE) Huainanzi uses Wuji six times. One syntactically playful passage says a sage can...
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Transcendental whistling (section Huainanzi)
citing the Liji 不嘯不指 "He does not whistle, nor point with the finger" and Huainanzi 黃神嘯吟 "The yellow spirit wails and moans". Like the Shijing, Han and Six...
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for him comparable to Shang Yang or Shen Buhai by the Han dynasty; the Huainanzi has major influences from the Zhuangzi, and to a lesser extent Han Fei...
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Han dynasty. Together, they wrote the philosophical collection Huainanzi (淮南子, Huáinánzǐ, literally "The Philosophers of Huainan"). They were: Jin Chang...
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Sexual practices Art Talismans Priesthood Texts I Ching Daodejing Zhuangzi Huainanzi Taipingjing Xiang'er Liezi Sanhuangjing Huahujing Qingjing Jing Baopuzi...
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Mr. He's jade (section Gao's Huainanzi commentary)
next significant version of Pian He's story is found in Gao You's 212 CE Huainanzi commentary for the passage (below) that compares the Way of Heaven with...
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Taiji (philosophy) (section Huainanzi)
it is senior to high antiquity, but it is not old. The 2nd century BCE Huainanzi mentions a zhenren ("true person; perfected person") and the taiji that...
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movement, which was an influential school of thought at this time. The Huainanzi and the Taipingjing are important sources from this period. An unorganized...
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Teng (mythology) (section Huainanzi)
follows behind me, the Flying Horse trots at my side. The (2nd century BCE) Huainanzi uses both tengshe graphic variants 螣蛇 (with the insect radical, chapters...
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by Sima Qian (146-86 BCE) in the Shiji and Liu An (179-122 BCE) in the Huainanzi, mention that the Qin Emperor built the twelve monumental bronze statues...
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(wufang; 五方) with the five colors is found in Confucian classic text, The Huainanzi (2nd cent. BC) describes the five colored dragons (azure/green, red, white...
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