Li Mi (722 ~ 789) was born in Jingzhao (now Xi, Shaanxi) in the Tang Dynasty. Xuanzong, Suzong, Daizong and Dezong were four dynasties. When Dezong was the prime minister, he was named Ye County Hou, and the world called Hou. He is a hermit given by the first emperor of South Vietnam. Su Zong built a house for him at the side of the temple under the misty peak in Nanyue, which was named "Duanshi" and later called "Yehou Academy". It is the oldest academy in the history of Chinese academy. Li Mi lived here for 12 years (757 ~ 768), and lived a life of self-cultivation, indulgence in landscapes and extensive reading. The end room is also the earliest private library in China. In Han Yu's poem "Send Zhuge Jue to Suizhou to study", there is a sentence "Ye Hou's family has many books, and 30,000 axes are stuck in the rack", which shows that Li Mi has a large collection of books in Nanyue. He studied Daoism with Mr. Xuanhe and Zhang Taixu, and had deep contacts with the lazy and disabled monk (Ming Zan Zen Master) and other eminent monks, and he wrote Yang He Pian and Ming Xin Lun. "He is especially good at writing poems", such as Fu Ming Tang, Jiu Ding Yi (saying that they are one article), Jianning Ci, Bagong Poems, etc. , "there are twenty volumes of anthology". He is good at calligraphy. Up to now, there are three characters "extremely bright" on the stone wall on the side of Fuyan Temple, which has been handed down from generation to generation as the calligraphy of Li Bishan's middle school, hence the name "Gaomingtai". In the late autumn, it was given to Prince Taifu, and his son (former Suizhou secretariat) built Nanyue Academy on the left side of Nanyue Temple. For thousands of years, Li Bi has been a legend of Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue, praised by Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. (According to Hengyang Dictionary of Hunan Cultural Celebrities, edited by Gan Jianhua and produced by Erya Culture)

True Taoist quality

Li Bi was able to leave a brilliant record in the history books, mainly because of his political achievements. However, Li Bi came into contact with Taoism earlier and often participated in political activities as a Taoist. So, let's talk about his belief in Taoism first. According to the Legend of the Leaf Monkey, Li Bi showed various supernatural phenomena before he was born. First, a strange monk predicted that Zhou (Li Bi's mother)' s third son would be the emperor's teacher. Later, "Zhou Huai and secrete, every third anniversary, Fang Sheng, secrete as for the eyebrow. First of all, every week is bound to be tired and tired, but it is innocent, so the fine print is/hectare. " As a child, Li Bi could stand on the screen or walk on the cage without any training, so a Taoist saw it and asserted, "He will ascend to heaven in the fifteenth day." Ascending to heaven by day means leaving the world to become immortal. Although it is a good thing to be immortal, parents and relatives who have no choice but to stay in the world can't bear to be separated from such an excellent child anyway, so a war between man and god began. "Biography of Ye Hou" records: "Parents cherish, relatives love, hear about it, if something happens. When there is a strange smell and music in the air, Gong Li's blood will be scolded. On August 5, 2008, there were songs in the room and colorful clouds hanging on the trees in the courtyard. Li Gong's love is to pound garlic for several times, until it smells strange and makes people climb into the house, throwing thick garlic with a giant spoon, and the fragrance is scattered. " In this battle, the Li family finally won. Although Li Bi's ascension to heaven during the day was delayed a little, there was another prime minister named Li who benefited the country and the people. Later, when Li Mi traveled in Hengshan Mountain and Songshan Mountain, he "met a fairy and a real person, admired Mr. Menzi and Mr. An Qisheng, feathered cars and made festivals, with brilliant clouds and burning valleys. He still gave Shu Nai the way to live forever, emerged and took the bait, saying:' If you are born too expensive, the country will decline, and the court will be both civil and military. "(Biography of Ye Hou) This record is obviously mythical, but it also shows that Li Bi had the experience of practicing Buddhism in the mountains in his early years. Since then, Li Mi has been angry for a long time, and Li Mi has cultivated the spirit of Huang Lao Gu. Li Bi's parents died in the 12th year of Tianbao (753). After that, Li Bi's main interest was to learn Taoism. "Biography of Ye Hou" said: "It is difficult to secrete from the Ding family, and there is no hope for being an official. I believe in practicing Buddhism and traveling around famous mountains. Mr. Yue in Yinan was blocked, and Mr. Zhang and Mr. Wang pursued him. "According to this record, although Li Bi studied Taoism very early, it was only during his life in Hengshan that he officially became a monk. So we say that Li Mi is a Taoist in Hengshan Mountain. During his study of Taoism in Hengshan Mountain, Li Bi still suffered a lot. He lived in the mountains for many years and was killed by bandits at night, throwing himself into a deep valley. The wise man, however, climbs out of his path and borrows leaves, slightly without loss "("Biography of Ye Hou "). But for the thick dead leaves in the valley, Li Mi almost died. Li Bi has made great achievements in Taoism because he has been studying Taoism for many years. It is said that he can eat nothing for years, be as light as a swallow, let his fingers vent and blow out candles. Some of his unique ways of seclusion have also been imitated by later generations: "Every time I visit, I choose different secluded things, use strange branches, and live in seclusion, which is called nourishing harmony. People have done this so far, so I wrote "Nourishing Harmony" to sacrifice Su Zong. " (Biography of Ye Hou) (Li Bi) Yin Hengshan, ... tried to hide his back by taking pine trees and absurd branches, which was called "nourishing harmony", and then he got the shape of a dragon, because Xian Di competed with all directions for it. "("Biography of Li Mi in the New Tang Dynasty ") These two records are similar, indicating that Li Mi's regimen had a great influence at that time. In addition, his way of offering sacrifices to the gods was also accepted by people at that time: "Secretions were also used as neutralizing wine, which was used to pay homage to the stubborn god in order to pray for a new year's valley, and it has been used ever since. "It should be said that Li Bi was an influential figure in the religious circles at that time. Regarding the situation after Li Bi's death, Biography of Ye Gong said: "It was a gift to the Crown Prince in March. It was in the middle of the month that Yuan Linmi, who went against the blue customs, rode a horse alone in secret, saying that he would go to Hengshan temporarily, so the four dynasties met again, but it was sad to leave. As far as Chang' an, Wen Fong is the best. " This record shows two problems. First, people believe that he became an immortal after his death, which further shows that his religious status in people's minds is very high. Second, he finally chose Hengshan as his home, or at that time people thought he had the deepest fate with Hengshan, so he said so. Being sealed in Hengshan Mountain and finally returning to Hengshan Mountain shows that Li Bi's political career was in the imperial court and his religious career was in Hengshan Mountain.