The Huainanzi flying-chariot and celestial travel passages
- Date of account
- 2nd century BCE
- Location
- Han China; text associated with Huainan court
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Huainanzi is a Han philosophical and cosmological compilation associated with Liu An’s court. Its discussions of sages, celestial movements, transformation, and travel through the heavens are sometimes cited by ancient-astronaut writers as descriptions of technological flight. In context, the passages belong to a literary-philosophical tradition involving immortality, cosmology, metaphor, and ritual knowledge. The text matters for comparison because it demonstrates how premodern language about heavenly movement can be reinterpreted as encounter testimony even when its genre and intellectual aims are different.
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