Try to read the general theory of Taoism: the techniques of avoiding valley, persuading, gathering qi to avoid valley and persuading are ancient magic techniques that spread as early as Qin and Han Dynasties. The immortals in the mind of ancient beggars' gangs are all people who are as light as a swallow, fragrant and clean, and look like virgins, and can roam freely in famous mountains and rivers. If people want to become immortals, it is natural to go to filth and take some rare things. People who eat fish, grains and vegetables will not only get fat and gain weight after digestion, but also discharge feces and other dirt. Therefore, there is a saying in the book that "if you want to live forever, your intestines should be clear;" If you want to live forever, you won't have me in your intestines. "If you want to live forever, you will be stupid if you do good deeds, strong and tough if you eat meat, wise but not dead if you eat grains, and angry but not dead if you eat grains", so you can avoid grains and take them orally. "Chu Ci" said: "Eat six qi and drink it, and wash Zhengyang with the morning glow; Protecting the spirit is clear, the essence enters, and the filth is roughly removed. This is a record of the immortals eating and even collecting qi in the pre-Qin period. In the post-Han Huang Lao Dao and the immortal Taoism in Wei and Jin Dynasties, the history of alchemists is endless. "Historical Records: A Family Leaving Hou" records, "Learn to avoid the valley and guide the wise to fit in", "I am willing to abandon my personnel and go from Akamatsu!" "Biography of the Calligraphy of the Later Han Dynasty" records: "(Hao) Meng energy-saving contains jujube stones, which are inedible for five years and ten years." He can hold his breath and keep his body still, and he looks like a dead man for a hundred days and a half. "Cao Zhi's exposition of Taoism also records:" I worked hard to be frugal, lived in the valley for a hundred days, bowed my head and went to bed, walked freely and lived comfortably. "Ge Hong's Miscellaneous Answers to Bao Puzi said:" For the rest, there are many people who have broken the grain in three years and two years, all of whom are light and good in color, comparable to the wind, cold and wet in summer, and most of them have no fat ears. "Among them" is abundant, but he has endured humiliation and broken the valley for three years. Watching his steps climb the mountain steeply, he carried a heavy load and worked tirelessly all day. "Tao Hongjing's" South History Seclusion "also has the method of" being good at guiding the valley ". He has lived in seclusion for more than 40 years, and he still looks strong in his 80 s. The History of the North also contains Wang, Song Yuquan, Xu Ze and Sun Daomao. , all practice the way of breaking the valley, with pine leaves, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria, to achieve the effect of strengthening the body and prolonging life. In the Tang Dynasty, people paid more attention to the way of eating gas in the valley, among which Pan, Sun Zhiqiong and Xu Sanren lived in the mountain to eat pine cones and avoided the valley for nearly a hundred years. "Stories of Seclusion in Old Tang Dynasty" records that Wang Xiyi lived in seclusion in Yulaishan, Yanzhou, "tasted the mixed flowers of pine and cypress leaves" and "visited Xuanzong in the east and was called to drive in Yanzhou County. It is 96 years old. " Pan also learned from Wang that "I lived in Xiaoyao Valley of Songshan Mountain for more than 20 years, but only drank water from pine leaves", at the age of 98. It shows that there are many successful people in Taoism.
Bigu, also known as broken valley, broken valley, no food, etc. It is often combined with the method of convincing people by reasoning, so it is collectively called "breaking the valley and eating gas". The silk book Quegu Shi Qi in Mawangdui Han Tomb is the evidence that Quegu Shi Qi has been circulated in China. Fifty-two clouds in the Taiping Jing say, "If you want to know the meaning of the womb, don't eat the gods in October", which is the way to become immortal in Qin and Han Dynasties, that is, to cultivate immortals and channel with the skill of crossing the valley. As early as the Jin Dynasty, according to Ge Hong's records, the skill of breaking the valley is "nearly a hundred pills, or taking dozens of pills of Chinese medicine, you will not be hungry for forty or fifty days; You can keep the pine and cypress skills, but it's not as good as a big doctor, and it takes ten years to return to the book. Or 120 days, or people who eat every day are not hungry. Or make delicious food first, but take medicine to feed what you eat, so that you can persist for three years without digestion. " If you want to eat another grain, put it in sunflower seed pig paste, and then all the delicious food is served, not as bad as before. "("Bao Puzi, Inner Chapter, Miscellaneous Answer ") The prescriptions of later Taoist priests did not break away from the way of eating gas in the Golden Valley. Generally, sunflower seeds, flax, pig paste, hemp seed and other drugs are taken to moisten the intestines and stop diarrhea to prevent gastrointestinal adhesion and stool poisoning. When you are hungry, you can eat a small amount of soup made of sesame seeds, black beans, Chinese dates, chestnuts, crispy, poria cocos, Polygonatum sibiricum, asparagus, ginseng, cypress leaves, honey, etc. At the same time, you should swallow body fluid, take breath, and gradually adapt to the state of suspended grain. Originally, when the airflow reaches the realm of fetal interest, there will naturally be broken valleys. The method of eating qi in the valley can promote human qi activity and stimulate human potential, thus changing people's physique. Modern people can also lose weight, beautify, eliminate excess fat and abnormal cell tissue in the body, thus restoring physical fitness, improving the level of internal qi cultivation, and still have the effect of disease prevention and fitness.
The methods of taking qi are mostly combined with the methods of swallowing body fluid, penetrating valley, exhaling, stopping qi, keeping thinking and keeping orifices, and there is a difference between taking qi in vitro and taking it in vivo. When taking qi in vitro, we should combine our thinking, such as taking five buds, six qi, three qi, purple qi, fog, and even five gas fields, the sun and the moon. There are ways to take qi in the body, such as taking qi and blood from the five internal organs. Sun Simiao said: "If you want to learn this technique, you must first remove the grains, feel at ease and be full of gas, be calm and full of gas." "If the qi does not disperse, it means that the sea of qi is full, the spirit is calm, the body and mind are forever solid, the face naturally returns to color, and those who change become immortals." ("Preserve Spirit, Refine Taste") What Sun Simiao preached was the method of strengthening vitality in the body. There are other strategies to serve vitality in Mr. Huan Zhen's Serve, Mr. Yan Ling's Classic Collection of Old and New Merits and Yun Qi's Seven Musts, which are typical works of Taoism. Generally speaking, the method of taking internal qi is to spit out the turbid qi in the body first, and when the exhalation is about to stop, drive the vitality in the body to rise to the throat, and then swallow it in one breath. The qi that rises in the body with exhalation is called internal qi. For example, the "swallowing tactics" in "Mr. Fantasy True" said: "The beauty of internal qi lies in the breath. Why does the world think that external gas is internal gas is absurd? People who take a deep breath should judge and do, and there must be no mistakes, no mistakes. The wife is born with vitality and identity. Every time she hesitates, the internal gas corresponds to the external gas, and the natural gas in the sea goes up with the saliva until the throat. However, when you are waiting to vomit, you need to keep your mouth shut, swallow and giggle. Then the man and the woman went down to the right and collected 24 knots, which clearly smelled of water and rain. Therefore, the internal gas and external gas care for each other, but don't be. " Send it as a gift and rush into the sea in the order of hand rubbing. ""three pharynx without saying a word. Dry pharynx is called cloud, while wet pharynx takes body fluid from mouth, which is called rain. The popularity of taking the first breath is not popular, every swallow is a spin, and it is not allowed to reach three consecutive pharynx. "The waiting time went smoothly and gradually increased until a small achievement was made." Obviously, the concept of "internal strength" in the method of persuading people is not the same as the concept of "internal strength" in the internal alchemy that emerged in later generations. As for the retention of qi in vitro, it is important to enter more and exit less. For example, there is a "three-five-seven-nine-qi method" in Sima Chengzhen's "On the Essentials of Taking Qi": inhale slowly for three times through the nose and exhale once through the mouth, so that the three-qi method will be cooked for a long time, then inhale five times through the nose and exhale once. The five-gas method has been cooked for a long time, and then the seven-gas method is carried out. Breathe a dead breath through your nose. Seven-qi method is repeated for a long time. Breathe a dead breath through your nose. After a long time, 3579 finally merged into 24 qi, that is, 24 qi swallowed and spit out until 998 1 one swallowed and spit out. This method is best to inhale more and exhale less. According to the method of "taking three qi" in "tactics of keeping clear liquid in the middle", "always look straight at the sun and take green gas, white gas and red gas as the line. Falling from the sky, straight into the mouth, more than 90, full. " This method of persuasion is in line with the way of thinking.
The gas production method based on thinking has gradually developed into gas production method. For example, the "sun-moon canopy method" and "sun-moon canopy method" contained in "tactics of catching the middle of the supernatant" are the initial gas production time. The method of "covering the sun" is: "lie on your back and look at your eyes. There is a sun image in your heart, as big as money, and the red, purple and nine mans come out of your heart to your teeth and return to your stomach. For a long time, I could clearly see in my heart and stomach that I was exhaling, gargling and taking liquid for 39 days. Do it three times a day. " At night, it is feasible to take the moon sky curtain method, that is, think that the moon is in the mud pill palace, and the moonlight is bright, and its daytime curtain flows into the stomach and down to the abdomen. Collecting Japanese essence can replenish yang in the body and treat yang deficiency; Picking Yuehua can nourish yin in the body, and it is feasible for those with yin deficiency. The soul of the sun and moon can be induced by the soul in the body, and the yin and yang of the sun and moon can be convinced by thinking, which can enhance the life energy of yin and yang in the body. With the continuous improvement of Taoist cultivation level, it can stimulate its own vitality and heaven and earth induction, and then it can adopt the spirit of heaven and earth. The method of collecting qi often does not need to enter the stomach or lungs through the nose and mouth like the method of collecting qi, but leaves the system of respiratory organs and digestive organs and is directly based on the theory of meridians and orifices. If you use the essence method of the sun and the moon, you can sit facing the sun and the moon, thinking that the essence of the sun and the moon is inhaled into Baihui point on the top of your head, and then goes down to Dantian along Ren meridian, and then goes up to Mud Pill Palace from Du meridian. The sun and the moon are the essence of yin and yang in heaven and earth, which is superior to Hyunri's method of taking the sun and the moon, and is often used to keep the mind. The left eye is the sun, the right eye is the moon, and the sun and the moon meet, shining through the mud pill, taking pictures of the five internal organs, entering the hall, turning into colorful nectar, swallowing it in the mouth, and running the abdomen along the pulse. Others, such as two palms taking the breath of pine and cypress from Laogong point, two feet taking the breath of mountains and rivers from Yongquan point, and Tang Yin point between the eyebrows or Zuqiao point seeking the nature in the void, all need to practice by keeping thinking, or cultivate to the height of harmony between man and nature.