Cinnabar Mound

Of an even greater interest and relevance in our context are the southern traditions of the Chu region, which associate immortality with the sun and the light. In the Far-off Journey (Yuanyou) poem of the Elegies of Chu [Chuci) the poet-magician feeds on solar effluvia. .. he visits the Feathered Men (the immortals) on the Cinnabar Mound (Danqiu), the country of the people who do not die he washes his hair in the Tanggu, the valley where the sun rises at dawn at night he exposes his body to the brilliance of the... 

Real Powder is a secret name of cinnabar. In the Liquid Pearl, 1.4b, the ingredient of this elixir is called Vermilion Child zhu er), an abbreviated form of Vermilion Child Who Descends on the Mound (jiangling zhu er), which the Shiyao erya (Synonymic Dictionary of the Materia Medica ... 

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