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Chen Tuan
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Chen Tuan (d. 989) was a legendary Taoist

sage credited with creation of the kung fu system
Liuhebafa ("Six Harmonies and Eight Methods").
Along with this internal art, he is also said to be
associated with a method of Qi (energy)
cultivation known today as Taiji ruler and a 24
season Daoyin method (er shi shi ssu shih tao yin
fa) using seated and standing exercises designed
to prevent diseases that occur during seasonal
changes throughout the year.

Chen Tuan

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Name and titles

Biography and legends
Later historical references
Sources
See also
References
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Name and titles

The character "Tuan" () is sometimes confused
with the very similar-looking character "Bo" (),
thus the name is sometimes incorrectly romanized
as Chen Bo or Chen Po. In Chinese, he is often
respectfully referred to as "Aged Ancestor Chen
Tuan" ( Chn Tun Loz) and
"Ancestral Teacher Xiyi" ( Xy Zsh).
Chen Tuan, styled Tunan, titled himself Fuyao Zi
(one soaring upward in the high sky, from Nan
Hua Jing written by Zhuangzi)
Known as the "Sleeping Immortal", he is credited
with using and creating sleeping qigong methods
of internal alchemical cultivation.

Biography and legends

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Chen Xi Yi Asleep by Hasegawa Thaku, Ishikawa

Nanao Art Museum
Nativename

Family name: Chn ()

Given name: Tun ()
Courtesy name: Tnn ()

Born

Luyi County, Henan

Died

25 August 989[1]

Othernames

Chn Xy ()
Fyoz ()

Chen Tuan
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Simplified Chinese

Transcriptions
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Little is certain about his life, including when and

where he was born. He was born around the end
of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
(907 AD - 960 AD) and the start of the Song
Dynasty (960 AD - 1279 AD), possibly in what is
now Luyi in Henan Province. By another account,
he was born in Zhenyuan of Haozhou (Anhui
Province nowadays).

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Hanyu Pinyin

Chn Tun

WadeGiles

Ch'n2 T'uan2
Yue: Cantonese

Yale Romanization

Chan4 Tyun4

Jyutping

Can4 Tyun4

Chen is said to have been astonishingly intelligent and erudite in his childhood.
According to certain Taoist schools who claim him as a founder, he lived two decades of a secluded
life in the Nine Room Cave on Mount Wudang, though traveled frequently. On the 1st year of
Xiande Period of Later Zhou Dynasty (one of the Five Dynasties) he is known to live on the Mount
Hua, one of the five sacred mountains of China.
The story goes that Chen Tuan had planned a career at the Imperial court, but flunked the state
examination and became a hermit sage instead. Thus, as a student he was conversant with the
Confucian classics, history, and the theories of various schools of thought. Among the Confucian
classics, he was particularly fond of the Yi jing (Book of Changes), which he was unable to put
down. Apart from the classics, he was said to be conversant with medical principles, astronomy and
geography, and famous for his poems as well.
Chen Tuan had a good command of primordial Yi learning, taught the River Chart and Luo River
Book as well as the Infinite and Taiji Charts. As an important teacher of Taoist doctrines who
pioneered the Confucian school of idealist philosophy of the Song and Ming Dynasties, he had a
profound influence upon later generations.
Having rejected the emperors orders and edicts, he was still conferred the title of Master Xi Yi"
(Master of the Inaudible and Invisible) by the Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty. During the first
year of Duangong Period of the Emperor Taizong, Chen appointed his disciples to cut a stone
chamber in the Zhao Chao Valley (later renamed Xi Yi Valley); then Chen Tuan presented a report to
the imperial court in which he wrote the following note: I will die soon. I am about to leave,
nowadays Im transformed in the Zhang Chao Valley at the foot of Lotus Peak on the 27th day of the
tenth month of the lunar calendar. By the time he died when he cupped his cheek in his hand his
facial features remained unchanged.
Many tales of Chen Tuan have been circulated around and it is said that "He wanders around and
shows no concern for worldly benefits." However, despite many mystical and mysterious stories,
Chen was known to care about and was compassionate to ordinary people. For this he is deeply
respected by the common folk. This Taoist sage was considered the embodiment of the Supreme
Lord Lao and received the nickname of Aged Ancestor, a symbol of Taoism in Huashan.

Later historical references

According to the "semi-historical" biography of General Yue Fei, it was the immortal Chen Tuan
who, disguised as a wandering Taoist, warned the Yue Family of the imminent Yellow River flood.

Sources
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General Yue Fei ISBN 962-04-1279-6

See also
Chan Yik Yan
Wu Yi Hui

References
1. Song Shi, vol. 457 (http://zh.wikisource.org
/wiki/%E5%AE%8B%E5%8F%B2/%E5%8D

%B7457)

Sources
(Chinese) Toqto'a; et al., eds. (1345). Song Shi () [History of Song].

External links
History of Liuhebafa and Chen Xiyi (http://www.liuhebafachuan.com/history1.html)
www.liuhopafa.com (http://www.liuhopafa.com/chenpo.htm)
Taoist Culture & Information Center (https://web.archive.org/web/20060614124849/http:
//www.eng.taoism.org.hk:80/general-daoism/eminent-philosophers&accomplished-daoists
/pg1-4-22.asp)
Plexus-Plus: Myth becomes Historical Artifact (http://waterspirit6x8.tripod.com/id65.html)
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