Born in December of Guangxu 6th year (Chen Geng, AD 1880). Originally from Chen Geng, Hongzhen Township, Huaining County, Anhui Province, he lives in Sujiaxiang, Anqing. My father, Mr. Jingbo Chen, was a juror in Qing Dynasty. He was a disciple and took teaching as his career. At the age of 8, he began to teach Mr. Wang to read Confucian classics, and 14 began to write poems. He was gifted and hardworking, and had a solid foundation of Confucianism when he was young.

Mr. Chen Yingning once said, "I remember when I was about ten years old, I found two books at home, Biography of Immortals written by Ge Hong in Jin Dynasty. I didn't dare to read it clearly, so I had to put the book on my lap and peek. There is also a copy of The Analects of Confucius on the desk, which is considered as a cover-up. Guy, I'm afraid my father will scold me if he knows I read heretical books. At the age of thirteen, he sneaked into the street to go to school in Chenzhou and was killed when he came home. When I was fourteen years old, I bought a copy of "All Laws Return to the Ancestor", which was searched out by my family and burned in the fire. I won't be free until I'm sixteen, and they won't bother to interfere with me any more. However, things like thunder, jujube, six gods and peach swords are still afraid to be exhibited in public. "

A little longer, I'm a scholar, trying for the first time. Because I like reading The Times, Threatening Stories in a Prosperous Age and other books and newspapers on weekdays, I like the influence of the new ideological trend, and I am quite dissatisfied with the corruption of the Qing court's political affairs and the humiliation of the country. So I tried to talk about politics and criticize the Qing court. This is naturally very different from the meaning of the feudal imperial examination, which has violated the dignity of the emperor. Fortunately, the examiner was held by his father, and he secretly took off this test paper to save him from disaster. But the examiner's lawsuit told his father to strictly control it to avoid suffering in the future. Mr. Wang's mother was scared to get sick. Mr. Wang felt that the times were sinister and difficult and was wary of the police. This is also the reason why he has no intention of career. Later, due to family supervision, he took the next subject, which was a scholar. Because of the abolition of the imperial examination in the late Qing Dynasty and the popularization of the school, Mr. Xuan got rid of the shackles of "honor". Soon, Zuo, Minister of Westernization School, opened Anhui College of Political Science and Law in Anqing, where Mr. Wang studied and studied under Yan Fu. Mr. Wang was weak since he was a child, and he studied very hard. He suffered from waterlogging when he was young. There was no cure at that time, and the doctor was helpless. Unwilling to die, Mr. Wang decided to seek the right hand to save his dying life. He abandoned Confucianism and studied Chinese medicine with his uncle. After taking medicine experiments, Juechuang medicine has no effect on tuberculosis. Because his uncle not only practiced medicine, but also did a lot of good things in fairy magic, Mr. Wang gradually became interested in the cultivation methods of ancient immortals, and began to read Taoist books and study the method of the moon. After personal experiments and physical recovery, I believe that the immortal health preservation method is a strange method to cure diseases and prolong life, so I began to study immortals from medical theory and philosophy.

Mr. Chen Yingning once said, "When I was 65,438+00 years old, I read Ge Hong's Biography of Immortals, and I dreamed of learning from immortals. My 13-year-old late father copied Sanfeng's Xuan Yao Pian and Bai Ziqing's Yuan Di Zhenjue, and read them with great interest. This is the first time I have seen two fairy books, Ren Yuan and Yuan Di. At the age of 65,438+06, my great-uncle wanted to collect the ancient books "The Magic Device" and "Five True Articles". At the age of 65,438+09, my roommate Qiao Jun wanted to collect the original works "Fairy Biography" and "Fairy Justice", only then did he realize that the method of family cultivation was very different from that at home. After Ding, a 20-year-old fellow countryman, collected the first large-character editions of Testimony of Jin Xian and Hui, he realized that monks also learned magic. My late father was good at Confucianism, but he didn't like learning it. Although there are many manuscripts and Taoist books at home, he can only peek and dare not read them in public. If he knew, he would condemn it. My great-uncle is a famous doctor and is good at immortal knowledge, so his Tibetan medicine books and Taoist books are all rare books, waiting for him to learn from them when he has leisure. Yi Taste said: "Doctors can learn, but immortals can't learn; Books can be passed on, but you can't. "Helpless, I had to give up. Ning Pingsheng's fairy tales were given by his family, and only a few books of the Dan Jing were there. Although there are several teachers who pass on the formula, none of them have anything to do with their families, that is, the closest relatives don't know the name of our teacher, and it is not enough for outsiders to be humanitarian. "

At the age of 25, he entered Anhui College of Political Science and Law. Because of his hard work, he had to drop out of school because of the recurrence of his old illness before he graduated. There is only one way to feel alive, and that is to visit famous teachers and deepen the art of health preservation with the immortal way. Since I was 28 years old, I have visited Xia Yue, a master of Jiuhua Mountain, a diligent master of Ningbo, an eight-fingered Buddhist monk in Tiantong Mountain and a monk in Cheung Chau. I feel that the Buddhist practice method is light-minded, which may not be able to achieve the effect of prolonging life. Turning to the famous Taoist holiday village, I visited Suzhou Dome Mountain, Jurong Maoshan Mountain, Zhou Jun Wudang Mountain, Qingdao Laoshan Mountain, Huaiyuan Tushan Mountain and Huzhou Ai Jing. I met a stranger in Huangshan Mountain. His book "Immortal Learning Will Make a Great Instrument" said: "I personally met him in Huaiyuan County, Anhui Province in the thirty-third year of Guangxu, and we met for twenty days. I did a field experiment to prove that what the immortals said was true and corrected the way. "

Mr. Chen Yingning said: "There are five official tutors, two from the north, one from the south, one from the hermit school and one from Confucianism. Now I can't say I'm the only one. Speaking of the Dragon School, servants are regarded as the 19th generation circle school. All the above factions are handed down from family, and they only value merit rather than ceremony, so harmony is not the same. In addition, there is altar teaching, which is somewhat mythical; There are teachings in the rivers and lakes, but I am afraid of falling into the side door, so I don't want to talk about it. "