Tao Hongjing (456-536), with bright characters, lived in seclusion in Huayang, was born in Moling, Danyang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu), a Taoist priest, alchemist and physician in the Qi and Liang Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties. At the age of 65,438+00, I read Biography of Immortals, and I have the ambition to keep fit. At the age of 65,438+05, he wrote "Looking for Mountains" and admired his seclusion.

At the age of 20, Gaudi was introduced as the king's teacher and later worshipped the general in Zuo Wei Hall. At the age of 30, the eldest grandson of Daoism had Yue as his teacher and was taught by Fu, Jing and Xin, so he traveled all over the famous mountains to find the true classics of fairy medicine. In 488, in the sixth year of the reign of Southern Qi Yongming, he got the original calligraphy of Yang He in Maoshan.

He also compiled Shennong's Herbal Classic, added new drugs used by famous doctors in Wei and Jin Dynasties, and compiled a seven-volume Notes on Herbal Classic. * * * recorded more than 700 kinds of drugs (the original book has been lost, and now only Dunhuang suicide note is left), and there are many works, in addition to the above, there are Deng Ji and The Record of Keeping Healthy and Prolonging Life.

Create Maoshan Sect

Tao Hongjing is an important inheritor of Shangqing School. He traveled around and searched for Taoist scriptures. During his tenure as the Taoist priest of Shangqing, Mao Shan wrote a large number of Taoist works, especially "True Faith" with the nature of sectarian history, which made a systematic description of the teaching history of Shangqing Classic and made various deified descriptions of its origin and birth. Because Tao Hongjing mainly taught Shangqing Classic during his stay in Maoshan, he did a lot of work to promote Shangqing Classic.

In addition, he is very famous, and even there are many believers in the ruling and opposition parties, so since he started, Maoshan has actually become the center of the Shangqing school. In addition, after Tao Hongjing, most of the descendants of Maoshan in past dynasties were learned and famous Shangqing Taoist priests, so Maoshan has always maintained the central position of Shangqing School.

In this way, starting from Tao Hongjing, Maoshan actually represented the Shangqing School, so people called the Shangqing School after that as Maoshan School, and regarded Tao Hongjing as the founder of Maoshan School. Maoshan School has experienced the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties since it was founded by Tao Hongjing, and its talents have come forth in large numbers, which has always occupied an important position among Taoist schools.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Tao Hongjing