Zhōu yì cān tóng qì fēn zhāng tōng zhēn yì 周易參同契分章通真義
Chapter-Divisions and Penetrating-True Meaning of the Cān tóng qì
by 彭曉 (Péng Xiǎo, d. 955) — Five-Dynasties Latter-Shǔ Daoist alchemist
Péng Xiǎo’s commentary on the Cān tóng qì — the single most influential traditional commentary on the Urtext of Chinese alchemy. Dated by colophon to 947 (Guǎng zhèng 10 of the Latter Shǔ). Péng’s structural division of the text into three juàn with chapter-numbering (fēn zhāng 分章), and his systematic reading of the scripture as a coherent alchemical treatise, established the interpretive framework inherited by Sòng commentators including Zhū Xī. Preserved as DZ 1002 / CT 1002 (Tài xuán bù 太玄部), with companion illustrated supplement KR5d0020.
Dating. 947. Dynasty: 五代.
Translations and research
- Pregadio, Fabrizio. Commentary on the Mirror for Compounding the Medicine: A Fourteenth-Century Work on Taoist Internal Alchemy. (Péng Xiǎo is discussed in introductory materials.)
- Pregadio, The Seal of the Unity of the Three. 2011. Treats Péng Xiǎo’s commentary as the foundational reading of the Cān tóng qì.