Sublime

Needham points to the importance of ideas of wuwei and fengshui as constraining ideals, and cites the example of the Han dynasty hydraulic engineer Chia Jang (Jia Rang), who practiced ‘Taoist hydraulics’ and believed the river should be “given plenty of room to take whatever course it needed.”30

Rice (non-glutinous) Nature, flavor & channel

The recent revival of yangsheng practices in everyday life, where classical ideas intersect with contemporary needs and new ideals, to achieve a better integration of individual life with family, community and nature, reveals that dialogical transcendence is alive and well in China and being tapped in similar ways.7

Nonetheless, the early twentieth-century traditions of rural reconstruction, especially the ideas of Liang Shuming, have had a major impact on the contemporary rural-reconstruction movement in China.

Hung-jan was apparently the first of the Patriarchs to have any large following, for it is said that he presided over a group of some five hundred monks in a monastery on the Yellow Plum Mountain (Wang-mei Shan) at the eastern end of modern Hupeh, He is, however, much overshadowed by his immediate successor, Hui-neng (637–713), whose life and teach