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xingqi

Works in 1 traditions beyond Chinese Daoist attest this concept, on 21 cited pages. Translators have rendered it as “行氣”, “circulating qi”, “circulation of qi”; a link through a rendering is marked as such, because another translator chose differently.

Also under: “行氣” · “circulating qi” · “circulation of qi”

6works in other traditions, with a cited page
0works in Chinese Daoist, its home tradition on the maps
0further works where only a vocabulary list or keyword names it; not shown
1judged analogues in other traditions (a different word for a neighbouring idea)

Analogues, judged

A different word, in another tradition, that a reviewer judged to name a neighbouring idea. These are not attestations of xingqi; each carries the reviewer’s confidence and reason.

  • prāṇāyāma Indian70%xingqi, Daoist breath/energy circulation — an adjacent practice, a precursor of qigong (judged from the other side)

In other traditions

Ordered by the earliest work in each tradition that attests the concept. Within a tradition, works run from earliest to latest by conventional composition date.

Chinesefrom 150 CE · 6 works

How it is done — 2 instruction pages

Pages a blind judge read as giving the steps of the practice — order, positions, counts, timing — not merely naming it. Found by describing the act to the page embeddings and among the evidence above; each line says what a leader would still have to invent.

At home in Chinese Daoist

No work labelled Chinese Daoist on the four maps attests it behind the gate; the concept’s own tradition may be under-mapped, or its home works are held only in vocabulary lists.

Evidence gate. A work is listed only where a translator marked the word as a term with a gloss, or kept the original word beside the English, on at least one page of a held edition. Vocabulary lists and keywords alone do not count: in a Greek vocabulary list ἡσυχία is the ordinary word for quiet. Up to 3 pages are shown per work, preferring those with a gloss. The vocabulary was built 2026-09-11; the graph on 2026-09-13.