''Su Nü Jing'' or ''Su Nü Ching'' - ''Classic of the White Madam'' (素女經), is a Chinese

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book written before the

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. It belongs to the

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and presents the

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sexual practices.In the Han dynasty

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's poem'' Song of the Same Voice'', when describing the night of the male and female bridal chamber, he wrote: "Sunü is my teacher, her manners are full" According to this religious tradition, the book is said to have been written by the Goddess

Sunü Sunü () is an ancient Chinese goddess associated with music and sexuality. She is viewed as the divine sister of the Chinese war and sex goddess Jiutian Xuannü. She is traditionally portrayed as a highly skilled singer who plays a zither, and ...

in the Huang Di era.

History

In China, this book was lost after

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(~907 AD). However, copies of the text were collected in Japan by Tamba Yasara ( 丹波康赖), who included this book in his series of books "Heart of Medicine" ( 医心方) (published in 982 AD), and the current edition of "Su Nu Jing" is the version taken from the collection of Yasara.《素女经》中央编译出版社 ''Su Nu Ching'', Central Publishing, Beijing 2008 Supposedly, there were three goddesses in the era of Huangdi, namely Sunü, Xuannü and Cainü; the three sisters taught the Huangdi Taoist sexual practices the theory of sex and practiced physically with him, among them, Sunü was good at music and is the author of "Su Nu Jing".

Content

The whole book can be divided into two parts. One part talks about the methods of sexual intercourse. There are 24 tricks in "Seven Losses", "Eight Benefits" and "Nine Methods"; the other parts are about flirting skills, Five Signs, Five Desires, and Ten Movements. The explanations for both men and women are very straightforward. This book mainly is about Taoist sexual practices and health precautions. It teaches sex positions, skills, seasons and sex,

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method,

theory and various other subjects. Among them, "philharmonic" is mentioned, and it is advocated that both men and women shall agree to make love, otherwise it is harmful to the body.Cao Kou，The Secret History Hidden in the Box, Huacheng Publishing House，Guangzhou, 2011. In Chinese: 曹寇《藏在箱底的秘密性史》花城出版社 2011

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''Su Nu Ching'', （''Classic of the White Madam''）中醫大典－《醫心方》〈卷第二十八至理第一〉〈卷第二十八養陽第二〉Wisdom of Chinese Medicine Traditional Chinese Medicine Classics-"Heart-Heart Prescription" (Volume 28 to Li No. 1) (Volume 28 to Yang Yang No. 2)
Chinese classic texts Religious books Non-fiction books about sexuality Taoist practices Sexology literature