Fú lí bí zǔ jīn huá mì jué 浮黎鼻祖金華祕訣
Secret Formula of the Golden Flower of the Fúlí Patriarch
attributed (per the embedded self-preface) to a transmission from 廣成子 (Guǎngchéngzǐ) → 黃帝, “with twelve sections of the Jīn huá ”
A short jīndān (golden-elixir) text on outer alchemy (外丹 / wàidān) with explicit operational detail — the alchemy of qiān (lead), yín (silver), jīn (gold), shā (cinnabar), gǒng (mercury), and huáng yá (sulphur sprout). The text presents itself as a partial transmission of the Jīn huá shí èr piān 金華十二篇 — the twelve-section Golden-Flower scripture taught by Guǎngchéngzǐ at Kōngtóngshān to the Yellow Emperor — and claims to disclose the hidden details of jīnshuǐ jiāo gòu (gold-water trans-erotic conjunction), xuánguān gōngyuè (mystery-pass bellows-pipes), and huīchí liàn qì (ash-pool refinement-of-pneuma) that “the immortal sages had kept secret and not yet published.”
Prefaces
The text opens directly with a self-prefatory exposition (no separately-attributed preface or signature). The expository opening is a meditation on cosmogony: “Lamentably, when Heaven and Earth were not yet split, when sun and moon were not yet bright, when yīn and yáng were not yet established, when the Five Phases were not yet divided — in chaos, half-blurred, dim-and-dark, twisted-and-twined, within them was a hidden numinous light, true essence; one (rénguǐ) was born, two (bǐngdīng) flourished, bǐngdīng fire issuing forth illumined the dark of the mystery, gave birth to gēng yellow, cast it as a metal-court…”
Abstract
A wàidān text in the late-imperial Jīn huá tradition. The pagination (begins at sheet 25a) shows it was the second item of a longer woodblock printing in the original DZJY edition. Its detailed operational language — the “six-five-four-three-two-one” sequence of metallurgical transformations (lead → rén water → bǐng fire → dragon-mercury → true gold → wùjǐ earth) — places it firmly in the wàidān technical lineage that came down through the Sòng Cān tóng qì commentaries to early-modern operational treatises.
The “Fúlí Patriarch” 浮黎鼻祖 title is a Daoist cult-epithet for the Tàishàng / Lǎozǐ in the high-cosmological register; here it is used as a frame for an alchemical-technical revelation. Composition is undatable from the text alone, but the Jīn huá genre to which the work belongs flourishes in the late-Míng to mid-Qīng (cf. the parallel KR5i0046 Jīn huá zōng zhǐ). The dating bracket notBefore 1500 / notAfter 1809 records this range.
Translations and research
- For the Jīn-huá / Golden-Flower tradition see Despeux, Taoism and Self-Knowledge (Brill 2018), and Cleary’s translation of the Tài yǐ jīn huá zōng zhǐ (Harper 1991, with reservations about the source recension).
- For the broader wài-dān tradition: Pregadio, The Encyclopedia of Taoism, s.v. “Wài dān”; Great Clarity (Stanford 2006).
- No substantial secondary literature located on this specific text.