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    Ge Hong (Chinese: 葛洪; pinyin: Hóng; Wade–Giles: Ko Hung; b. 283 – d. 343 or 364), courtesy name Zhichuan (稚川), was a Chinese linguist, philosopher...
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    Chinese: 抱朴子; traditional Chinese: 抱樸子) is a literary work written by Ge Hong (AD 283–343), (Chinese: 葛洪; Wade–Giles: Ko Hung), a scholar during the...
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    14-16, menstruating virgins aged 16-20 and women aged 21-25. According to Ge Hong, a 4th-century Taoist alchemist, "those seeking 'immortality' must perfect...
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    of Ge Hong and a resident of Danyang Commandery in the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. Ge Xuan's paternal grandnephew, Ge Hong, gave...
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  • Bao Jing (section Ge Hong)
    (三皇文, Writings of the Three Sovereigns) to his disciple and son-in-law Ge Hong. Bao Jing's courtesy name was Tàixuán (太玄, "Great Mystery"), which is a...
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    (180–157 BC). This commentary has a preface written by Ge Xuan (164–244 AD), granduncle of Ge Hong, and scholarship dates this version to c. the 3rd century AD...
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    Emperor Guan Yu Li Hong Body god People Laozi Zhuang Zhou Lie Yukou Heshang Gong Wei Boyang Zhang Daoling Gan Ji Zhang Jue Zhang Lu Ge Xuan He Yan Wang...
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    appears. As early as 317 AD, Ge Hong documented the use of metals, minerals, and elixirs in early Chinese medicine. Hong identified three ancient Chinese...
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  • Huacun (252–334) Ge Hong (284–364) Pao Ching-yen (c. 3rd century) Bao Gu (c. 4th century) Kou Qianzhi (365–448) Lu Xiujing (406–477) Ge Chaofu (c. 4th or...
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    Eastern Jin dynasty, the renowned Taoist practitioner Ge Hong once refined elixirs here. During Ge Hong's stay on Mt. Luofu, four huts were built, and subsequently...
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  • description of Chinese gods, partially attributed to the Daoist scholar Ge Hong (283-343). In the history of Chinese literature, the Shenxian Zhuan followed...
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    decipher the writing on them in order for them to be considered efficacious. Ge Hong noted in his Baopuzi that as long as the inscription was authentic, successful...
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    Emperor Guan Yu Li Hong Body god People Laozi Zhuang Zhou Lie Yukou Heshang Gong Wei Boyang Zhang Daoling Gan Ji Zhang Jue Zhang Lu Ge Xuan He Yan Wang...
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    (267–300). Another later influential figure was the 4th century alchemist Ge Hong, who wrote a key Taoist work on inner cultivation, the Baopuzi (Master...
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    disappeared, leaving behind only the clothes, such as in the death of the adept Ge Hong (Ko Hung) according to the legend, this was another form of immortality...
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    century CE Baopuzi (抱朴子 "[Book of] Master Embracing Simplicity"), written by Ge Hong, gives some highly detailed descriptions of xian, listing three classes:...
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  • keyword ziran (literally "self so") "natural; spontaneous". The scholar Ge Hong (283–343 CE) immortalized pu in his pen name Baopuzi "Master who Embraces...
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    Paphnutia the Virgin Zosimos of Panopolis Ancient Chinese Fang (alchemist) Ge Hong Master Geng Wei Boyang Byzantine pseudo-Olympiodorus Stephanus of Alexandria...
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    Paphnutia the Virgin Zosimos of Panopolis Ancient Chinese Fang (alchemist) Ge Hong Master Geng Wei Boyang Byzantine pseudo-Olympiodorus Stephanus of Alexandria...
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    Paphnutia the Virgin Zosimos of Panopolis Ancient Chinese Fang (alchemist) Ge Hong Master Geng Wei Boyang Byzantine pseudo-Olympiodorus Stephanus of Alexandria...
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    Pangu in the story "Pangu Separates the Sky from the Earth". Ge Hong (葛洪; pinyin: Hóng; 284–364 AD), in the book Master of Preserving Simplicity Inner...
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  • Consort Ling Li Mingqi as Wet-Nurse Rong Lu Shiyu as Liu Qing Chen Ying as Liu Hong Wen Haibo as Fu Lun Liu Fang as Fu Lun's wife Xue Yan as Xiaodengzi Li Nan...
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  • figures of Confucianism. Zengzi Zheng Xuan Zisi Zhu Xi List of Confucianists Ge Hong Laozi (Lao Tzŭ), illusive founder of Taoism and author of the Tao te Ching...
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    Emperor Guan Yu Li Hong Body god People Laozi Zhuang Zhou Lie Yukou Heshang Gong Wei Boyang Zhang Daoling Gan Ji Zhang Jue Zhang Lu Ge Xuan He Yan Wang...
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    Daoism and Buddhism, which had recently been introduced to China. Ge Chaofu, Ge Hong's grandnephew, "released to the world" the Wufu jing 五符經 "Talismans...
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    calm and free of thoughts". The Taishang Lingbao wufuxu cites Ge Hong that his great-uncle Ge Xuan transmitted a recipe containing Solomon's-seal, and said...
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    invisibility to others was said to be achieved. In the Baopuzi (抱朴子), written by Ge Hong (b. 283), the paces of Yu are described as elements of the divinatory system...
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  • accomplished Taoist practitioner and governor Bao Jing, and the wife of Ge Hong, who is the author of Baopuzi. She is also known as one of the famous four...
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    revealed to Ge Chaofu, the grandnephew of Ge Hong. Ge Chaofu claimed that the scriptures came to him in a line of transmission going back to Ge Hong's great-uncle...
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    communication and for protection. Regarding their protective function Ge Hong stated: "Having the Album of the True Forms of the Five Marchmounts in...
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