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Book for China Eastern south-north "Yang on an alchemy theory.Hereinafter referred to as "ginseng with qi".In the second century AD, is the most ancient history of China, an existing book.

Ginseng, three also;With the general also;Qi qi, book.The Zhou Yican with qi "yi, huang Lao, blast, fire three interlinked.View, borrow han yi, huang Lao word describe the theory, then the "ginseng with qi" in Taoism history with distinct characteristics of The Times.

The book with colorful style of writing, many parables, described the ideas of the blast.It thinks the generation of all things and change, both Yin and Yang of copulation, nutrients ventilation results.To get immortal, must comply with the change of Yin and Yang, master of dry sixty-four hexagrams operation rule, affiliate of uniting, can get into.Participate with qi said, then, than herb medicine winner, then will never defeat rot, the performance of clothing it is immortal.

For the first time in the book "easy" linked with alchemy, and experience with an alchemist has carried on the summary and the summary.This book, for example, the volatile mercury, can and sulfide;Red lead, red lead, can be carbon reduction as lead;Also documented chemical changes bring some physical formula ratio.Although westergren understanding of material chemistry is still the original, but as the first blast theory works, its historical position is irreplaceable.

Academia most people believe that the participation with tong principal belongs to Dan's theory.Someone but also some scholars on the basis of the song and yuan period for the ginseng with qi Dan explanation and claim made in the Dan said, also have advocated "ginseng with qi" and inside and outside Dan Dan said.

The version of the journal and with qi, existing Ming hongwu thirteen years (1381) Zhang Benzhen carved shu qi "Zhou Yican with qi play. For the first.Ming the orthodox Taoist sutra can be annotated, shu Peng Xiao after from the Zhou Yican points with deed ZhangTong its righteousness "is the earliest.And there was a song zhu xi "Zhou Yican with a contract between"."Ku" also accept Ming qing Jiang Yibiao deed set with the GuWenCan solution "and so on.

The Zhou Yican with qi.Dong jun Yang zhao, hereinafter referred to as "ginseng with qi, early Taoist classics.Encyclopedia, easy like an alchemist in terms of reference with the "big easy", "situation", "fire" the principle of three to one, in the tide of the tripod, Yin and Yang as the embankment, with fire and water for the mechanism, assisted by five behavior, xuan jing as Dan base, etc., so as to clarify the principle and method of an alchemist, as the earliest Taoist system discusses the sutras still an alchemist.Note home a lot, always after ZhuMingZhe have shu Peng Xiao "Zhou Yican with points ZhangTong true righteousness", song zhu xi "Zhou Yican with a contract between" (not his real name is empty with Taoist zou xin), song Chen microscopic "Zhou Yican with solution", yuan YuYan "Zhou Yican play with deed", etc., all income "orthodox collected Taoist scriptures" xuan department.

References:

Ren Jiyu editor "religious big dictionary" on page 1076, the Shanghai press, 1998, ieee Ren Jiyu editor in chief of the China Taoist history of 25-31, Shanghai people's publishing house, 1990), editor QingXi Thai Chinese Taoism history the first volume of 145-123, sichuan people's publishing house, 1988), QingXi Thai chief editor "Chinese Taoism" volume 2, pp. 130-128 Shanghai knowledge press, 1994, MouZhongJian "the general theory of Taoism -- and talk home theory," pp. 346-344, 356-364, 367-371, qilu publishing house, 1991), editor Hu Fuchen big dictionary of Chinese Taoism "on page 353, China social sciences press, 1995), lee ideas are the Taoism 51-57 maeno naoaki, zhong hua press, 1989.