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Jing li wu xian pills11/8/2023 ![]() ![]() This was caused, he explained, by excessive drinking and sexual indulgence.ĭepletion from debauchery was a common diagnosis for upper-class men of the time, those who had the means to own concubines and patronize courtesans. Gong’s diagnosis: a profound deficiency of primordial qi ( yuan qi) , the source of all the body’s vitalities and material manifestations. As Gong recorded in his influential treatise, Curing the Myriad Diseases ( Wanbing huichun, preface dated 1587), Liu’s “male member was weak, and his semen was icy cold.” Furthermore, his pulses were flooding when felt at the first position ( cun) at the wrist, but deep and faint at the third position ( chi). He appealed to the physician Gong Tingxian (15`38-1635), promising him rich recompense if he could help. ![]() But at age 40, Liu Xiaoting was still sonless ( wu zi). And only men could take the examinations for government office which conferred elite socio-economic status. Sons performed the ancestral rites, inherited land, and were responsible for supporting aged parents. Throughout imperial China, a family’s well-being and longevity required the birth of sons. From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. This porcelain bowl was made in Jindezhen during the Jiajing reign period (1522–66). Depictions of boys at play were a popular Chinese decorative motif during the sixteenth century, imbued with auspicious meaning and conveying hopes for male offspring. ![]()
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