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136 II. Commentaries, Essays, and Related Works ————————————————————————————————————————— 2. “CANTONG QI” (DAOSHU) [54] “Cantong qi” 參同契 , ca. 1150; contains earlier texts. During the Song dynasty, Zeng Zao 曾慥 (–1155) published his Daoshu 道樞 (Pivot of the Dao), a major anthology of Neidan and related texts. Three chapters of this work (juan 32–34) are entitled “Cantong qi.” Although these chapters have been described as embodying a different version of the Cantong qi, they consist in fact of several writings individually related to the Cantong qi, but not directly related to one another, which were edited and compiled by Zeng Zao. 1. Juan 32 is anonymous. It contains: (a) 32.1a1–9a7, 9b5–27a1, and 33a7–33b8: Unidentified texts. (b) 32.9a7–9b5: Part of an anonymous text also found in Yunji qiqian, j. 63. (c) 32.27a1–28b1: Part of the Taiqing yu beizi 太清玉碑子 (Jade Stele of the Great Clarity; CT 927). This work is associated with Hugang zi 狐剛子 , an alchemist who is ascribed with several works, now extant in fragments, dating from the late Six Dynasties. It mentions Hugang zi as a disciple of Wei Boyang (6b), and contains materials of interest for the textual history of the Cantong qi. It also includes the well-known passage of the Zhengao 真誥 that ties to Cantong qi to Chunyu Shutong (see The Seal, vol. 1, p. 8). 4 (d) 32.28b1–33a7: The whole Huanjin shu 還金述 (On the Return to Gold; CT 922), by Tao Zhi 陶植 (or 陶埴 , –826). 5 2. Juan 33 contains an otherwise unknown text attributed to Lou Jing 婁敬 (hao: Caoyi zi 草衣子 , Dongzhen Zixuan 洞真子玄 ). Lou Jing is said to be the original name of the Han-dynasty official, Liu Jing 劉敬 . 6 4 On Hugang zi see Pregadio, Great Clarity, 242–50 passim. For the quotation of the Zhengao passage, see Taiqing yu beizi (CT 927), 6a. 5 For verses of the Cantong qi quoted in the Huanjin shu see above, p. 129. 6 Lou Jing is also ascribed with the Da huandan qi bitu 大還丹契秘圖 (no. 49). © Fabrizio Pregadio and Golden Elixir Press 2012
2. Song and Yuan Dynasties 137 ————————————————————————————————————————— 3. Juan 34 is attributed to Wei Ao 魏翱 (zi: Boyang 伯陽 ; hao: Yunya zi 雲牙子 ). The text in this chapter corresponds to the entire Jinbi wu xianglei cantong qi 金碧五相類參同契 (The Seal of the Unity of the Three According to the Five Categories of Gold and Jade; no. 45). Wei Ao supposedly transmitted the text to Yuanyang zi 元陽子 , who wrote a commentary (see 34.1a). The hao Yunya zi for Wei Boyang appears to have been used for the first time by Yu Yan. 7 As for Yuanyang zi, it is significant that this was the hao of Yang Canwei 羊參微 (or Sanwei 三微 ), who is sometimes ascribed with the alchemical paraphrase of the Cantong qi known as Jinbi jing 金碧經 (Book of Gold and Jade) during the Tang dynasty, and later re-entitled Longhu jing 龍虎經 (Book of the Dragon and the Tiger; see above, pp. 126 ff.). BIBLIOGRAPHY: Chen Guofu, “Caoyi Dongxuan zi, Yunya zi, Yuanyang zi.” — Jin Zhengyao, “Jinbi Wu xianglei Cantong qi Songdai bieben zhi faxian.” — Meng Naichang, “Cong Xin Jiu Tangshu zhong shiluole de Wu xianglei.” — Qin Weigang, “Nan Song chuqi Cantong qi wenxian shitai kaocha”, part 1. — Zeng Chuanhui, Yuandai Cantong xue, pp. 76– 89. 3. ZHU XI [4] Zhouyi cantong qi kaoyi 周易參同契考異 , 1197. The best-known commentary of the Cantong qi outside the Taoist tradition was composed by Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130–1200, from Anhui). His Zhouyi cantong qi kaoyi (Investigation of Discrepancies in the Zhouyi cantong qi) is the first of several works, written through the Qing period, that testify to the attention paid by Neo-Confucian thinkers and scholars to the Cantong qi. It is also the work that more than any other lifted the Cantong qi out of an exclusive relation to Taoism. Zhu Xi’s active interest in the Cantong qi arose in the last decades of his life. As he also did for the Yixue qimeng 易學啟蒙 (Instructing the Young in the Studies on the Changes; 1186), for the composition of the Kaoyi Zhu Xi benefited from the advice of his disciple and 7 Zhouyi cantong qi fahui (CT 1005), 9.15b. Visit the Web page on this book • www.goldenelixir.com
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