Mo PaiArchive

Reference

Places

A Javanese town nobody names, a mountain range in Hubei, three Han tombs near Changsha, a sanatorium in Hebei. The archive uses these constantly and, until now, explained none of them.

Island · Indonesia

Java

Where the whole modern story happens.

City · Central Java, Indonesia

Semarang

The north-coast port whose great temple commemorates Zheng He.

City · West Java, Indonesia

Cirebon

The West Java port in the archive's photograph of a Chinese temple.

Mountain range and temple complex · Hubei, China

The Wudang Mountains

The imperially built Taoist complex, and the name attached to the internal martial arts.

Mountain range · Western China

The Kunlun Mountains

The mythic range at the centre of the world, and a real one on the edge of the plateau.

Han tomb site · Changsha, Hunan, China

Mawangdui

The tombs that produced the oldest picture of the exercise tradition.

Mountain · Sichuan, China

Mount Heming

Where Taoism became a religion, in 142 CE.

Valley and prefecture · Shaanxi, China

Hanzhong

The valley the Celestial Masters governed as a religious state.

City · Hebei, China

Tangshan

The sanatorium where the word "qigong" was put to work.

City · China

Tianjin

Where the Xingqi jade is held.

City · China

Beijing

The White Cloud Temple, and the demonstration that ended the qigong boom.

Volcano · Sunda Strait, Indonesia

Krakatoa

The episode title under which the footage was broadcast.