Cantong qi Cantong qi The Cantong qi is deemed to be the earliest book on alchemy in China. The title has been variously translated as "Kinship of the Three", "Akinness of the Three", "Triplex Unity", "The Seal of the Unity of the Three", and in several other ways. The full title of the text is Zhouyi cantong qi, which can be translated as, for example, "The Kinship of the Three, in Accordance with the Book of Changes". According to a well-established traditional view, the text was composed by Wei Boyang in the mid-second century CE, and deals entirely with alchemy—in particular, with
The First Minute of a New Day The First Minute of a New Day The First Minute of a New Day is an album by American jazz vocalist Gil Scott-Heron and keyboardist Brian Jackson, released in January 1975 on Arista Records. Recording sessions for the album took place in the summer of 1974 at D&B Sound in Silver Spring, Maryland. It was the follow-up to Scott-Heron's and Jackson's critically acclaimed collaboration effort "Winter in America". "The First Minute of a New Day" was the first album to feature "Winter in America", the title track of Scott-Heron's previous album which was not featured on its original LP release.