Taixi Subdistrict
Chinese ''Taixi'' can refer to: *Far West (Taixi), 泰西 the Western world * Taixi (embryonic breathing), 胎息 Daoist meditation and Internal Alchemy methods *Taisi, Yunlin Taisi Township (), is a rural township in Yunlin County, Taiwan, lying to the west of Dongshi, south of Mailiao and north of Sihu, and including a section of coastline on the Taiwan Strait. History The town was formerly called Haikou (, meanin ...

Far West (Taixi)
The Far West is a Chinese and Japanese term for Europe, or more broadly, for the entire Western world as a cultural region comparable to East Asian cultural sphere. Originally a name for parts of Inner Asia and India, the term Far West as a Chinese exonym for the West was coined by the Italian Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci. Ricci invented the phrase as an Asian parallel to the Eurocentric notion of the Far East, which positioned Europe as a region on the fringes of a Sinocentric world. The term Far West was also used in Japan and appears in many Japanese publications. History China It was originally used in China as a name denoting parts of Inner Asia and India. The meaning of the term was changed to encompass Europe during the Chinese Ming dynasty. This semantic change is credited to the Italian Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci, who used the Far West as the Asian counterpart to the Eurocentric concept of the Far East. The Jesuits called India the Little West () and identified their ...
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Taixi (embryonic Breathing)
(, "embryonic breathing" or "embryonic respiration") refers to Daoist meditation and Inner Alchemy methods, the principle of which is to breathe like an embryo or fetus in the womb, without using nose or mouth. Techniques developed for embryonic breathing include ''xingqi'' (, "circulating breath"), (, "breath retention; apnea"), (, "ingesting breath; aerophagia"), and (, "embryonic eating; swallowing saliva"). In the history of Daoism, Tang dynasty (618-907) Daoist Internal Alchemists fundamentally changed the nature and understanding of embryonic breathing from the ancient theory of (, "external of the air; external breathing") to the new theory of (, "internal of one's organs; internal breathing"). Instead of inhaling and retaining air, adepts would circulate and remold visceral energy, which was believed to recreate the (, "prenatal ; primary vitality") received at birth and gradually depleted during human life. (, "embryonic breathing") was associated with th ...
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