Procreation, Life Cycles, and Prenatal Infancy Regained in Great Peace Beliefs

Grégoire Espesset (1)

1 CRCAO - Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l'Asie Orientale

Based on a cluster of disconnected textual occurrences from the Great Peace Scripture (Taiping jing) and Weft writings (weishu), this paper analyses the symbolism of gestation, prenatal infancy, birth, time cycles, and practices of reversion to the pristine condition of the foetus. This material shows how Great Peace proponents proposed to transcend the knowledge they inherited from the technicians of pre-imperial and early imperial China.

Mots clés: Great Peace Scripture (Taiping jing); Weft writings (Weishu); impregnation; gestation; birth; time cycles; religion; practices

Domaines: Religions

Grégoire Espesset. Procreation, Life Cycles, and Prenatal Infancy Regained in Great Peace Beliefs. International Symposium: Imagining the Feminine in East Asian Religions and Medicine, Nov 2010, Heidelberg, Germany. ⟨halshs-00713347⟩