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A Chinese print depicting "The Joining of the Essences", based on Tang Dynasty art. Taoist sexual practices (traditional Chinese: 房中術; simplified Chinese: 房中术; pinyin: fángzhōngshù; lit. 'arts of the bedchamber') are the ways Taoists may practice sexual activity. These practices are also known as "joining energy" or "the joining ...
Huanjing bunao (traditional Chinese: 還精補腦; simplified Chinese: 还精补脑; lit. 'returning the semen/essence to replenish the brain' or coitus reservatus) is a Daoist sexual practice and yangsheng ("nourishing life") method aimed at maintaining arousal for an extended plateau phase while avoiding orgasm.
The Guan Li and the Ji Li ceremony appeared in China in ancient times, prior to the Qin era. [6] Some philosophical texts dating from the Zhou dynasty and Warring States period provide some evidence for the Guan Li ceremony, for example in the Analects of Confucius and by texts written by Mencius. [2] The Guan Li ceremony can also be found in ...
The Chinese ritual and music system (Chinese: 礼乐制度; pinyin: Lǐ yuè zhìdù) is a social system that originated in the Zhou dynasty to maintain the social order. [1] Together with the patriarchal system , it constituted the social system of the entire ancient China and had a great influence on the politics, culture, art and thought of ...
Chinese ritual mastery traditions, also referred to as ritual teachings (Chinese: 法教; pinyin: fǎjiào, sometimes rendered as "Faism"), [1] [2] Folk Taoism (民間道教; Mínjiàn Dàojiào), or Red Taoism (mostly in east China and Taiwan), constitute a large group of Chinese orders of ritual officers who operate within the Chinese folk religion but outside the institutions of official ...
Written during the Han dynasty, [4] the original text is lost, though it was partially preserved in the Japanese medical text Ishinpō (醫心方). [5] In 1903, Chinese sexologist Ye Dehui (葉德輝) published an almost fully reconstructed version of Yufang mijue, alongside four other ancient Chinese texts on sexuality; this was not well-received by the public, and in 1927 the Chinese ...
Ji Li (Chinese: 笄禮), also known as the hairpin ceremony, [1] [2] [3] is the equivalent of the Guan Li; the Ji Li marks the transition from childhood to adulthood of a Chinese woman and involves the use of a ji (lit. '[Chinese] hairpin'). [1] [4] It is only after the Ji Li ceremony that a woman is considered an adult and is therefore ...
The day of "Chu Hua Yuan" has a rite of worship. What people worship in this special day is the deity of "Kong Pua Um"(Chinese: 公婆母; pinyin: Gong Po Mu), who is said to be the protective deity of children and in charge of children's lives and health