Han Zhong (Daoist)
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Han Zhong was a Qin dynasty herbalist fangshi and Daoist xian. In Chinese history, Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, commissioned Han in 215 BCE to lead a maritime expedition in search of the
Transcendent with a flower and Han Zhong riding a deer, Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 CE) tomb tile
Xu Fu's expedition searching for Mount Penglai, Japanese ukiyo-e by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1843
Repeating crossbow mechanism, Warring States period (c. 475-221 BCE)
Han Zhong, the Bailuxian (白鹿仙; "White Deer Transcendent"), painting by Zhang Lu (1464–1538)
Bigu (grain avoidance)
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Bigu is a Daoist fasting technique associated with achieving xian "transcendence; immortality". Grain avoidance is related to multifaceted Chinese cultural beliefs. For instance, bigu fasting was the
Han Zhong (Daoist)
…of 29 psychoactive plants consumed by Daoist adepts. Two hagiographies describe calamus-root subsistence diets. Shangqiu Zixu (商丘子胥) was a master of grain-avoidance fasting who was fond of blowing the thirty-six-pipe mouth organ (yu) while he herded pigs. At age seventy he had neither married a wife nor grown old…
Shennong tasting plants to discover their qualities
Shennong ploughing fields, Han dynasty mural