The image below shows the cover of a modern edition of the thirteenth-century text Zhonghe ji (The Balance and Harmony Collection), a series of essays, dialogues, poems, songs, etc. all on the subject of Taoist alchemy and thought. The work was written by Li Daochun (1219-1296), a native of today's Hunan province, who would have been sixty years old during the period of the Mongol conquest of China in 1279. Li's text has been translated by Thomas Cleary in The Book of Balance and Harmony (Boston: Shambhala, 2003). More will be said about this text in a following blog entry.
Here we see two titles and two authors. The titles are (on the right) the Zhonghe ji 中和集 and (on the left) another Yuan dynasty text, the Jindan dachengji 金丹大成集 (Great Golden Elixir Encyclopedia). The red splash with the white vertical characters says "Qigong and Nourishing Life Collection" (Qigong yangsheng congshu 氣功 養生叢書).
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