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Alchemy · alchemical poems · Northern Song, preface dated 1075

Awakening to Reality (Wuzhen Pian)

Zhang Boduan — Classical Chinese

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MouseiaMusean translationMouseia’s complete machine-assisted Musean translation, made directly from the Chinese Wikisource transcription of the Daozang text (revision 2596349), with one pentasyllabic poem missing there supplied from the Siku quanshu Wuzhen pian zhushu, covering the whole work: the preface, sixteen octaves, sixty-four quatrains, the pentasyllabic poem, twelve Xijiangyue songs with their supplement, five coda quatrains and ‘Reading the Cantongqi’, 5,083 characters, for fidelity, clarity, imagery and cadence.
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