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JINYE JING

gold with some red color). *Sun Simiao's *Taiqing danjing yaojue (Essential
Instructions from the Scripture of the Elixirs of Great Clarity; trans. Sivin I968,
I85-86) gives a similar recipe. Later texts, however, simply mention "gold"
being soaked in "vinegar" (xi e or zuowei li. ,*, a diluted acetic acid), which
would not react with real gold. Further study is necessary to understand the
significance of these terms.
According to several waidan texts, when the Golden Liquor enters the body,
it penetrates the five viscera (*wuzang), fortifies and lubricates the four limbs,
and feeds the hundred spirits in the body. In neidan, Golden Liquor indicates
a liquid formed by the interaction of the pneuma of the kidneys (shenqi W
~) and the pneuma of the heart (xinqi Jc.\~), which combine and finally
evaporate in the lungs (fei H$). The term also bears a cosmological meaning.
For instance, it is one of the names in the postcelestial state (*houtian) for the
Original Pneuma of the precelestial state (*xiantian; Zhichuan zhenren jiaozheng
shu ffEJ11 ¥i.A. f5i: mm , CT 902).
Some scholars, includingJoseph Needham, have suggested that the ancient
pronunciation of the word jinye, close to kiem-iak, may be the origin of the
word-root chem- used in several Western languages.

KIM Daeyeol
lID Butler et al. I987; Chen Guofu I983, 208; Glidewell I989; Meng Naichang
I993a, I56-65; Needham I976, 88-99; Wang Kuike I964
~ neidan; waidan

jinyejing

Scripture of the Golden Liquor

Along with the *Taiqingjing (Scripture of Great Clarity) and the *jiudanjing
(Scripture of the Nine Elixirs), thejinye jing is one of the three main scriptures
of the early *Taiqing tradition of *waidan. *Ge Hong summarizes the method
of the Golden Liquor in his *Baopu zi (trans. Ware I966, 89-9I), but his synopsiS
is so concise as to appear almost incomprehensible. The individual steps of
the process, moreover, are not given in the right sequence. A three-chapter
work in the Taoist Canon describes the same procedure in the correct order.
This text, the Baopu zi shenxianjinzhuo jing :t§if~T;f${W~f-J ~~ (Scripture of
the Golden Liquid of the Divine Immortals, by the Master Who Embraces
Simplicity; CT 9I7), includes the method for the Golden Liquor in the first