Xuán pìn zhī mén fù 玄牝之門賦

Rhapsody on the Gate of the Mysterious Feminine

by 俞琰 (Yǔ Yǎn, 1245–1314)

Yǔ Yǎn’s short fù rhapsody expounding the Dào dé jīng chapter 6 phrase 玄牝之門 “the Gate of the Mysterious Feminine” — a central trope of inner-alchemical meditation on the origin of cosmos and body. Preserved as DZ 1010 / CT 1010 (Tài xuán bù 太玄部).