Health-preserving Thought of "Huai Nan-zi"

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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.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Guozhe Yang
PY  - 2018/03
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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
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DO  - 10.2991/iccese-18.2018.99
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