Seven Slips from the Bookbag of the Clouds
Chinese reference work
Also known as: “Yün chi ch’i ch’ien”, “Yunjiqiqian”
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alchemy
- In alchemy: Chinese alchemy
…to a collection known as Yün chi ch’i ch’ien (“Seven Tablets in a Cloudy Satchel”), which is dated 1023. Thus, sources on alchemy in China (as elsewhere) are compilations of much earlier writings.
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Daoist reference work
- In Daoism: Literary developments
The most important is the Seven Slips from the Bookbag of the Clouds (Yunjiqiqian; c. 1022), made just after the first printing of the Daoist Canon in about 1016. It is a canon in miniature and contains many important works in their entirety. Hagiography continued to thrive. In addition to…
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