Material virtue traditions also had important links with Daoist texts, southern schools, and the "moralization" of health in traditions that culminated in the Huang Di neijing.
Such "material virtue" traditions held that the body-mind was constructed of qi and that embodied self-cultivation practices could transform qi.
Mark Csikzentmihalyi has argued that "material virtue" traditions drawing on yang sheng techniques appear prominently in the Mencius and in two versions of the Wu xing 五行 or "Five Kinds of Action" recovered from Guodian and Mawangdui.
Later research attempted to account for a more complex array of factors including environmental inputs (e.g., professions and community), the nature of the material, instructional traditions, and resource allocations, to name but a few (Conrad and Pratt [1983]; Lattuca and Stark [2009]).
And their task, no different from that of the earliest performers, is to renew, to refine, and to enrich the materials and traditions they inherit.
After its extinction, humans continued using its ivory as a raw material, a tradition that continues today.
Mesopotamian gardens were places where shade and cool water could be enjoyed; Hellenistic gardens were conspicuously luxurious in their display of precious materials, a tradition carried over by Byzantine gardens.
The poems associated with the name Llywarch Hen are the verse remains of at least two sagas composed toward the middle of the 9th century by unknown poets of Powys, whose basic material was the traditions associated with the historical Llywarch and Heledd, sister to Cynddylan ap Cyndrwyn.
In Britain folk rock tended to be more respectful of tradition; groups like Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span made records that combined centuries-old folk material with original, tradition-flavoured songs arranged for folk rock ensembles that often used old instruments to maintain a strong Celtic flavour.
In these narrow streets you experience the layers of a city that has grown up over centuries and frugally preserved generations of building materials, habits and traditions.
