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    The Huainanzi is an ancient Chinese text made up of essays from scholarly debates held at the court of Liu An, Prince of Huainan, before 139 BCE. Compiled...
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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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    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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    Bifang (section Huainanzi)
    Huainanzi, developed by various persons associated with the circle around Liu An, ruler of Huainan, dating back to the second century BCE. Huainanzi associates...
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    Yinglong (section Huainanzi)
    occurs in the c. Warring States period Tianwen. The (2nd century BCE) Huainanzi uses Yinglong 應龍 in three chapters. Ying also occurs in ganying 感應 (lit...
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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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    ISSN 0035-869X. S2CID 164550058. 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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  • 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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  • Liu An (section Huainanzi)
    nephew, Emperor Wu of Han (武帝). He is best known for editing the (139 BC) Huainanzi compendium of Daoist, Confucianist, and Legalist teachings and is credited...
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    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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    Wangliang (section Huainanzi)
    placed stone tigers and planted arborvitae trees in graveyards." The Huainanzi (139 BCE) uses wangliang (魍魎) to mean "mindless; zombielike" and wangxiang...
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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Zhenren (section Huainanzi)
    Man is capable of this. (32) The Huainanzi (2nd century BCE) mentions zhenren "true person" 11 times. One Huainanzi chapter uses zhenren to describe a...
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    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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    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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  • 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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    —(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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    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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  • the Qing dynasty. Dating from the Han dynasty, the third chapter of the Huainanzi outlines 15 hours during daylight. These are dawn (晨明), morning light...
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  • Feilong (section Huainanzi)
    broke her tryst; she told me she had not time. The (2nd century BCE) Huainanzi uses feilong in two chapters. "Evolution of Animals and Plants" (墬形訓,)...
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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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    looking at a weather vane "for the direction of the wind." In China, the Huainanzi, dating from around 139 BC, mentions a thread or streamer that another...
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  • Zuowang (section Huainanzi)
    that the Huainanzi compilers drew upon the Zhuangzi. Roth suggests that the received Zhuangzi text may have been compiled, along with the Huainanzi, at 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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