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Add. 22689, ff.28-29 Tao Hongjing the Hermit of Flowered Brightness.

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Add. 22689, ff.28-29 Tao Hongjing the Hermit of Flowered Brightness.
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A Keepsake from the Cloud Gallery/Yuntai Xianrui. China, 1750 Source/Shelfmark: Add. 22689, ff.28-29 Tao Hongjing (451-536 AD) began pounding rocks to make Daoist/Taoist elixirs of immortality ( according to Gao Hong's recipes). At the age of 10, a good lute player, he took the name the hernit of Flowered Brightness, lived in a mountain cave and took cinnabar together with all his dsciples and ascended to the clouds. Image taken from Daoist/Taoist folding album, A Keepsake from the Cloud Gallery/Yuntai Xianrui. Originally published/produced in China, 1750.

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China / Asia / east asia / science / asia / sciences / discipline / taoism / philosophical concept / philosophical movements / natural sciences / painting
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