Daoist Technology and Cultural Wellness

Author: Zhan Shichuang
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: This book examines the integration of Chinese Taoist culture, ancient technology, and traditional health practices, with the central concept being cultural health preservation. Cultural health preservation is a health preservation system with culture as its fundamental connotation, reflecting the transformation of humanistic culture and scientific culture into technology. In traditional health preservation studies, Taoism's contribution is particularly prominent because its basic purpose is to extend life and achieve immortality. To attain the goal of longevity and further realize the ideal of "transcending the mortal world and ascending to immortality," Taoist practitioners have strived to explore the mysteries of life and contemplate the close relationship between the subject and object of health preservation, thereby establishing a systematic theory of health preservation. Suitable for researchers in the history of science and technology, philosophy, religion, and university teachers and students in related fields.