Ge Hong
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Ge Hong 🇨🇳

葛洪 (Known as "Baopuzi (The Master Who Embraces Simplicity)")
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Born Jan 01, 0283 🇨🇳 Jurong, Jin Dynasty
Passed Away Jan 01, 0343 Mount Luofu, Jin Dynasty
Lifespan 60 years old
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"The Dao is the mother of all things; embrace simplicity, lessen selfishness, and live in harmony with the cosmos."

Archival Overview

Jin Dynasty Daoist philosopher, alchemist, and physician whose masterwork 'Baopuzi' harmonized Confucian social ethics with Daoist inner alchemy and medical science.

Biographical Record

Ge Hong (283–343 CE) declined high military appointments to retreat to Mount Luofu in Guangdong to pursue meditation and alchemical medicine.

His Baopuzi ('The Master Who Embraces Simplicity') divided into 'Inner Chapters' on breathing and immortality, and 'Outer Chapters' on political and moral order, while his Emergency Prescriptions documented early medicine.

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Publication of the Baopuzi

Completed his masterwork harmonizing Confucian societal ethics with esoteric Daoist alchemical self-cultivation.

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Emergency Prescriptions Behind the Elbow

Recorded medical treatments using artemisinin (sweet wormwood) against fevers, utilized centuries later in modern pharmacology.

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Final Resting Place

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Mount Luofu Daoist Temple (Chongxu Temple)
Huizhou (Guangdong), China
GPS: 23.2833, 114.0500
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