Divinatory and philosophical book dated from the period when Chou Dynasty replaced Yin Dynasty. One of the chapters of Lieh-tzu's book has his name.įu-hsi with the table of the eight trigrams (pa-kua) He is the author of the first medicine treatise in Chinese history: Huang-ti Nei-ching Allegedly he invented writing, compasses, potter's wheel, and the silkworm's growth. One of the legendary emperors thought to have ruled between 26 BC. Heaven and Earth - Abstract notion meaning universe, cosmos. Yarrow stalks divination method is also attributed to him.
He offered mankind many inventions and created the pa-kua (trigrams) of I-ching. It consists of 33 chapters but it is considered that only the first seven were written by Chuang-tzu.įu-hsi - Mythical character, the first of the three legendary emperors of the ancient China. Classical Taoist work also known as Nan-hua chen-ching (The Classic from Nan-hua). Lived during 369-286 BC, and wrote the homonym book.Ģ. Taoist sage who founded Taoism together with Lao-tzu. Ch'i is one's vital force but also the universal spiritual energy pervading all beings.Ĭhuang-tzu - 1.
At the same time it means "temperament, power, atmosphere". Literally translated by: "air, vapors, ether, breathing, energy".
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