Tao Hongjing (456-536), courtesy name Tongming, was a Chinese alchemist, astronomer, calligrapher, military general, musician, physician, and pharmacologist during the Northern and Southern dynasties period.
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Tao Hongjing Listening to the Pines, 1442 (Muromachi Period), Yamanashi Prefectural Museum
Xunshan zhi (尋山志, "Rhapsody on Exploring the Mountains") that Tao Hongming wrote at the age of fifteen, Ming dynasty (1573-1620) edition
Dunhuang manuscript of preface to Tao Hongjing's Bencao jizhu (本草集注, Collected Commentaries to the Shennong Ben Cao Jing), dated 718Writers born in the 450s 6
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Tao Hongjing (456-536), courtesy name Tongming, was a Chinese alchemist, astronomer, calligrapher, military general, musician, physician, and pharmacologist during the Northern and Southern dynasties period. A polymathic individual of many talents, he was best known as a founder of the Shangqing "Highest Clarity" School of Taoism and the compiler-editor of the basic Shangqing scriptures.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 456 to 536 · aged 79
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