Research On Thoughts Of Health Preserving From Huang Yuanji’s Inner Alchemy

Huang Yuanji is a famous Taoism scholar and a synthesizer on inner alchemy in the end of the Qing Dynasty.In the Qing Dynasty,he taught people the knowledge about inner alchemy over Sichuan for more than ten years,his words were recorded by his students and had been compiled.The most important thing of Huang Yuanji’s inner alchemy is the congenital breath,he had said many times that the Tao is the congenital breath,the breath gives birth to everything,and the breath is the foundation of life.For inner alchemy,Huang Yuanji doesn’t pursue eternal life,oppositely,he thinks only the common man like eternal life while the immortals follow the truth for pleasure,even self-sacrifice is happiness.In Huang Yuanji’s opinion,it is not worth worrying about life and death for people,they are both normal phenomenons,the life is not the beginning and the death is not the end.For inner alchemy,the congenital breath can’t be created or destroyed,the reason why the immortals can never die is not by magic or wonder drugs,they understand the Tao,so they won’t be limited by anything.Huang Yuanji thinks understanding the Tao is like going home back,it was a very natural thing originally,but most people were on the tramp long ago,they have to walk on a suitable way,the way for Huang Yuanji is inner alchemy.Different from the hard scriptures on inner alchemy of the past,Huang Yuanji’s inner alchemy is clear in all aspects and we can learn many practical things from it.For many reasons,only basic skills of Huang Yuanji’s inner alchemy can be summarized,besides,his deep thoughts can play a great role in the contemporary era.The health preserving in this article means making one’s life better in all aspects,I want to sum up some beneficial and practicable things through studying thoughts of health preserving from Huang Yuanji’s inner alchemy.