Health-preserving Thought of "Huai Nan-zi"
- DOI
- 10.2991/iccese-18.2018.99How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Huai Nan-zi; health preserving; body preserving; spirit preserving; energy preserving
- Abstract
With the continuous improvement of living standard today, people pay more and more attention to health preserving, and Taoist health keeping is our most well-known health-keeping thought. As a great masterpiece of Huang-lao Taoism, the book "Huai Nan-zi" is compiled by the the king of Huainan in Western Han Dynasty Liu An and his companions. It deserves to be called an encyclopedia-like treatise, which implies abundant health preserving thought. It holds that body, spirit, and energy are the three major elements of human life, together constituting the human life, and the three are indispensable. Therefore, this article discusses the health keeping thoughts contained in "Huai Nan-zi" from three aspects: body preserving, spirit preserving and energy preserving.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Guozhe Yang PY - 2018/03 DA - 2018/03 TI - Health-preserving Thought of "Huai Nan-zi" BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 430 EP - 433 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccese-18.2018.99 DO - 10.2991/iccese-18.2018.99 ID - Yang2018/03 ER -