| Cinnabar technique developed independently by China, its development and the close interrelationship between the rise of Taoism. There is an important school of Taoism is the King's School, this school emphasizes refining saver immortal after prey, so the Chinese saver home mostly priests. Saver operation of means and ends are trying to certain substances in nature, to create a pharmaceutical with a special, one serving it, you can live forever, even becoming immortal this pharmaceutical gold and silver can also be attunement. Western produces similar activities, that alchemy. Alchemy aims to become a philosopher mixing stone, philosophers stone they believe there is a kingmaker function, but also to people in sickness die.Western religion has its own alchemist, but they were believed in the original polytheism, Islam, Christianity three stages.Cinnabar technique and practice of alchemy is mainly the use of chemical means, refining saver activities carried out many experiments, a series of original design and manufacture of chemical equipment, observation and found that many chemical changes, the system took a large number of artificial objects. In order to better guide their experiments, they combine their respective intellectual tradition draw nutrients, the creation of their own guiding theory. Chinese Cinnabar home to Yin and the false self-solid foreign objects and stone as the guiding theory of evolution; the West with the four elements that the theory of metals and sulfur evolution theory as the guiding theory of mercury.Meanwhile, the Chinese Cinnabar Fire used during surgery, longer than the sublimation method; Western alchemy preference of water law and good long distillation.This similarity in patients and differences and their backgrounds closely. Their activities are very secret, only a very small range in the spread of the terminology used is not uniform, it is improbable. But the Chinese Cinnabar home in a long history of cooperation with the ruling class, loss of independence, so the development of love and hate with the ruling class while the rise and fall; Western alchemists more of the outstanding civil spontaneous, focus more on the accumulation of knowledge, of course, also the West a large number of services for Imperial alchemists, they are mostly artisans.We can be found through the comparison between their structure and scientific achievements in theoretical aspects of the high degree of similarity, so I think the fate of two very different reasons for the decision the decisive factor is external. |