Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (7)

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Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (7). Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Woodcut illustration of the practice known as 'Collecting fire and transporting' gold from Xingming guizhi (Pointers on Spiritual Nature and Bodily Life) by Yi Zhenren, a Daoist text on internal alchemy published in 1615 (3rd year of the Wanli reign period of Ming dynasty). (Cataloguing incomplete)

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PICTURE TITLE: Collecting fire and transporting gold OTHER LETTERING: Cataloguing incomplete

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