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  1. 1. The mountain at the centre Song Shan 0:58
  2. 2. Thirteen staffs Song Shan · Luoyang 0:50
  3. 3. Five animals Qiao 1:04
  4. 4. Needle and fire Mawangdui 1:04
  5. 5. Help in time Guangzhou 1:06

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  1. 6. The wall Song Shan · Luoyang 1:27
  2. 7. The snow Song Shan 1:11
  3. 8. The archer, the rooster and the knife Liezi · Zhuangzi 1:18

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  1. 9. Chen Village Chenjiagou 1:06
  2. 10. The crossing Taishan · Hong Kong · São Paulo 1:12
  3. 11. The master São Paulo 1:15
  4. 12. Stopping the spear Everywhere 1:17
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Bamboo slips unroll, a man digs a well in dry ground, a silk figure shows eleven channels as lights through the paper, and a bronze man lets one drop out at a needle.

四 · 針 · Body · 1:04

Needle and fire

  1. A book more than two thousand years old, the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic,

    History en.unesco.org: 438

  2. says the ancients lived long because body and spirit stayed together.

    Quotation Wikisource: 素問第一卷

  3. “The sage does not treat the illness that has come. He treats it before it comes.”

    Quotation Wikisource: 素問第一卷

  4. “Digging a well when you are already thirsty: is that not too late?”

    Quotation Wikisource: 素問第一卷

  5. At Mawangdui, in a tomb closed in 168 BCE, silk texts describe eleven body channels.

    History ncbi.nlm.nih.gov: PMC5337347

  6. In 1027 the physician Wang Weiyi had two life-size bronze men cast.

    History Wikipedia: Wang Weiyi (physician)

  7. It is said that in exams the bronze was coated in wax, and the right point let out a drop.

    Legend viewofchina.com: bronze-men