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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mid Autumn Festival". June 2021. Liu An, ed. (2011) [139 BC]. "覽冥訓". Huainanzi 淮南子. Zhonghua Shuju. 羿請不死藥於西王母,姮娥竊以奔月,悵然有喪,無以續之。 Clark, Stephen (1 October...
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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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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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Sexual practices Art Fulu Priesthood Texts I Ching Tao Te Ching Zhuangzi Huainanzi Taipingjing Xiang'er Liezi Sanhuangjing Huahujing Qingjing Jing Baopuzi...
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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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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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the year, as the centre of the cosmos, and the four gods of the directions and the seasons as his emanations. The diagram is based on the Huainanzi....
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arguments with Dong Zhongshu, founded an academy which compiled the Huainanzi. The Huainanzi leaves room for multiple cultural traditions in China through the...
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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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