The Seal of the Unity of the Three — Vol. 2 - The Golden Elixir

2. Song and Yuan Dynasties 137
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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
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Zhouyi cantong qi fahui (CT 1005), 9.15b.
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