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Xiuzhen Tu · Body & cosmos
A diagram connects the human form with patterns of the wider cosmos.
LOOKING CLOSERA form, a story,
A form, a story,
a way of seeing.
The Xiuzhen Tu is a chart of self-cultivation that connects the human body with lunar cycles, trigrams and the wider cosmos. Its visual language draws relationships between the person and a larger order.
Dense text and symbolic diagrams occupy the body’s outline and its surrounding space. Like the Neijing Tu, it belongs to the study of religious imagery and self-cultivation traditions, rather than serving as a modern medical illustration or a practice manual.
Details to notice
- Compare its frontal arrangement with the landscape-like Neijing Tu.
- Observe how the texts and symbolic forms are positioned around the body.
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