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If you think that the most influential Taoist figure in China ( includes Taiwan ) in the last century is Nan Huai jin ( half-Taoist) or Zhao Bi Chen, then hardly do you get it right. Although not known to most Westerners, it is Chen Ying Ning ("陳攖寧" 1880-1969) ,a scholar and Taoist practitioner who died in 1969 in the turbulence of the Cultural Revolution, that gets the title. Taoist Dan is said to be attainable through three Yuans ("三元 " ,ie, 3 ways) : Human , Earth and Heaven,and Mr.Chen is generally recognized as the only figure who knows the theory and gets some practical experience in all three of them. Chen is also the only person who claims himself having spent 3 yeas on reading the whole Tao Zhan ("道蔵"),ie, nearly the complete Works of all the Taoist writings written in its 2,500-year history . Last but not least, Chen writes and edits quite lot of articles on female Dan (女丹 ), based on his wife 's practice and his grasp of the related theory ( his wife , in fact, does the practice under his supervision..) .