
Published online:
17 November 2016
Published in print:
18 February 2009
Online ISBN:
9780824870218
Print ISBN:
9780824833336
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Eating Grains and Cooking as Key Markers of Civilization Eating Grains and Cooking as Key Markers of Civilization
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The Centrality of Agricultural Control, and of Sacrifice, to the State The Centrality of Agricultural Control, and of Sacrifice, to the State
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Alternate Cuisines for Superior Eaters Alternate Cuisines for Superior Eaters
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Eating Qi is Better than Eating Grains Eating Qi is Better than Eating Grains
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Feeding on Exotic, Rare, Marvelous Delicacies of the Cosmos Feeding on Exotic, Rare, Marvelous Delicacies of the Cosmos
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Chapter
3 Deeper Repertoire Analysis: “Avoiding Grains”
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Pages
62–87
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Published:February 2009
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Campany, Robert Ford, 'Deeper Repertoire Analysis: “Avoiding Grains”', Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China (Honolulu, HI , 2009; online edn, Hawai'i Scholarship Online, 17 Nov. 2016), https://doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824833336.003.0003, accessed 6 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on adepts’ avoidance of “grains” or duangu (cutting off grains). This regimen directed adepts to minimize or entirely avoid eating things considered to be staple foods in the surrounding culture, and to subsist on pure qi (ingested in breathing exercises) or qi as available in certain rare herbal or mineral substances. A well-known passage from the oldest portion of the Zhuangzi related this act to the dietary practice of a divine man who subsisted only on wind and dew. This divine being, who had become free from plagues through such a practice, had somehow helped grains grow by his own self-cultivation.
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Asian History
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