1997 65438+ 10/9, the Taoist fetal interest method was adopted in the column "The Best in the World" of Shanghai TV Station.
Gianluca Ginoni, the world champion of free diving, practiced the turtle breathing method in the swimming pool 18 minutes and 3 seconds 69, becoming the Guinness World Record for the longest time to hold your breath underwater! According to an industrial and commercial information held by the reporter of Time Weekly, Li Yi, formerly known as Li Jun,/kloc-0 was born in Banan District, Chongqing in June, 1969, with a high school education. At present, he is the vice president of Chinese Taoist Association, the vice president of Chongqing Taoist Association, the abbot of Shao Long Temple in Jinyun Mountain, and a member of Chongqing CPPCC. There are many versions about Li Yi's becoming a monk. One of them is that Li Yi was born in a Taoist family and his father was a Taoist. At the age of three, he fell ill and was taken to a Taoist temple. He followed another Taoist to practice and received Taoist techniques and medication. After his illness, he traveled around and asked teachers of many different sects for advice. 16 years old, became a descendant of Taiyi Kunlun School.
Another version is that Li 13 was seriously ill and could not be cured. His father sent him to Hebei to seek medical treatment from a reclusive Taoist priest. Since then, I have been learning Taoism, boxing and practicing with the old Taoist priest. After returning to school in Chongqing at the age of seven, he went to study at the master's house every winter and summer vacation, and became a monk in his twenties. "Li Yi's father is not a Taoist at all. Li Yi has never practiced in Hebei since he was a child." "Sweet Tea Ceremony Man" told the Times Weekly reporter that Li's father is only a retired worker of a state-owned enterprise in Shapingba District, Chongqing, "being kind and conscientious"; Li Yi grew up in Shiqiaopu. He was famous for fighting in Shiqiaopu street when he was in junior high school. In high school, he played truant and left with the juggler who came to Chongqing from Hebei to "learn peerless martial arts".
Li Yi is the second child in the family, and his neighbors often call him "Li Er Wa". Sweet Tea Ceremony Man tells a story: 1999, Shaolongguan once asked a seamstress from Shiqiaopu to make a robe. She met Li Yi, but didn't know that she had become a member of Little Dragon View, and called "Li Er Wa" to her in public. Li didn't answer, bowed his head and walked quickly. However, the nickname "Li Er Wa" has been widely known since then.
According to an investigation by the reporter of Time Weekly, Li Yi's brother Li Shihong, born in 1964, is currently the chairman of Chongqing Longren Health Care Company and the vice chairman of Chongqing Health Massage Association. He owns a health and beauty training school and a Chinese medicine beauty clinic at two intersections in Chongqing.
Qiu, a friend of Li Yi and a well-known comedian in Chongqing, said in an interview with Time Weekly that more than a year ago, Li Yi briefly mentioned his childhood to him: he was ill, and his father had been teaching him martial arts. Later, he went to Hebei to study martial arts.
Qiu met Li Yi on 1990. This year, Chongqing TV Station held the "Sun God Cup Bashu Stunt Competition", and Qiu was a member and host of the competition organizing committee. Li Jun, Li Yi, 2 1 year-old, has just returned to Chongqing to sign up for the performance of Electrification of Human Body. "He is wearing a pair of glasses, gentle and elegant, with a scowl in Xiu Xiu." Qiu said:
But another contestant signed up for the program "Electrification of Human Body". "Yi Lee's clothes are too simple, the props are simple, the lens picture is not ideal, and she was almost eliminated." Qiu said with a smile that he saved Li Yi, because his performance was simpler, more intuitive and more powerful than his competitors.
Yi Lee's plan is: one wire, one live wire and one zero wire in each hand. One end of them is a plug and the other end is a resistance wire. When the plug is plugged into an electrified 220-volt socket, both hands will turn red when touching the resistance wire, indicating that Li Yi's body is electrified at this time.
In fact, this is the embryonic form of "seeing a doctor by electricity" that Yi Lee is now vigorously promoting and being questioned by the outside world. At that time, Li Yi won the title of "Top Ten Masters" of Bashu stunts for this performance, and Chongqing TV Station issued a certificate. "This is his first appearance in the public media and his first fame." Qiu said:
From then on, Qiu and Li became friends. Li Yi has been calling him "Mr. Qiu" for many years because of his kindness to him. Qiu admitted that he served as Li Yi's assistant in his later years. It took a lot of twists and turns to become a formal Taoist priest, and the construction of Taoist temple also caused controversy.
The construction of Shao Long Temple in Jinyun Mountain began in August 1998. Qiu remembers that on the day of construction, he was invited by Li Yi to be the foundation-laying guest. The guests included Wang Jiayou (now dead), the leader of Beibei District and Li Yi himself, a famous religious theorist in Sichuan Museum.
According to Chongqing's "Sweet Tea Ceremony Man" and religious personages, before the completion of the temple, Li Yi once approached Zhi Qing Zhou, the abbot of Laojundong Taoist Temple, to discuss cooperation matters, and was scolded by Zhou and left angrily.
According to religious personages, Zhou Zhi, an upright Taoist priest, is one of the eight Taoist masters in China and a respected religious personage in Chongqing. He knows Li Yi very well and hates him. Zhou Zeng petitioned everywhere, reflecting the problem that Li Yi borrowed money from God. Even when he helped Li Yi's leader to retire to the National People's Congress, he angrily questioned the leader why he let such a pseudo-Taoist sneak into the religious circles.
The strong opposition of Zhou Daochang caused the religious circles in Chongqing to question Li Yi. An insider told Times Weekly that when Shao Long Temple was built, Li Yiyi did not have the legal qualification recognized by religious circles.
However, in order to "justify" the construction of Shao Long Temple, Li Yi had to register and set up a social organization legal person in Beibei District Civil Affairs Bureau-Beibei District Promotion Association for the Protection of Taoist Culture, 1997. Its business scope is impressively listed as "repairing, opening and managing temples", and the Civil Affairs Bureau has no right to approve this business.
Shao Long Temple claimed to be an orthodox Dojo built in Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty. In this regard, Master Pu Xiu of Wenquan Temple in Jinyun Mountain said that "this is compiling history".
The yogi said that Shao Long Temple and its branch Baiyun Temple were built on the basis of Long Shao Temple and Baiyun Temple in Jinyun Mountain. "Long Shao Temple and Baiyun Temple have always been Buddhist temples, both managed by Jinyun Temple, and have never been a Taoist Dojo before Li Yi".
Long Shao Temple, built in Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty, was once regarded as "Beiquan Kindergarten" during the Anti-Japanese War, and adopted more than 1000 orphans. Before Li Daoguan, the Taoist temple was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. There were no monks, but the main building was still there. In the late 1990s, Beibei District tried to restore Long Shao Temple in order to develop Jinyun Mountain tourism. But at that time, the religious policy had just been restored, and the Buddhist cause was in a state of great neglect. The Buddhist Association is too busy to take care of Long Shao Temple.
At this time, Li Yi, who lost a long talk with Zhi Qing Zhou, hit it off with Beibei Tourism Bureau and transformed Long Shao Temple into Shao Long Temple. "In fact, this practice of converting Buddhist sites into Taoist Dojo can easily lead to religious disputes. Without strong support, is it easy to have this courage? " A religious person said.
When Shaolongguan broke ground, the workers dug up a green snake and three turtles from the base of the column, but they were later accused of "playing games"-the snake and turtle were buried under the base of the column the night before the start of construction. This fake story is widely circulated in Jinyun Mountain area.
With the Dojo, Li Yi needs a pass to enter the religious hall.
Taoism is divided into two schools: Quanzhen School and Zhengzhen School. Li Yiyou told Time Weekly that Li Yiji failed to enter Quanzhen School because of Zhi Qing Zhou's opposition, and Zhengyi School became his choice path.
In September, 200 1 year, Li Yi studied with Chen Liansheng, the abbot of Shanghai Chenghuang Temple and the head of Zhengyi School, and officially started his career. According to religious figures in Shanghai, Li Yi found Chen Liansheng through connections, but did not follow Taoist rituals.
On 20071October 15 (Gregorian calendar165438+1October 24), Li Yi was taught in Longhushan, Jiangxi Province, and officially entered the religious circle. The Shao Long Temple, where he was the abbot, has been running for 8 years. On February 8th, 65438, Yi Lee was elected as the vice president of Chongqing Taoist Association. However, this election has caused many voices of opposition and doubt in the religious circles in Chongqing. It is extremely embarrassing to set up the Bashu stunt troupe.
Shortly after taking part in the stunt competition, Yi Lee began to recruit and co-founded the "Chongqing Oriental Bashu stunt troupe" in Shiqiaopu, and first served as the deputy head, and was promoted to the head on August 1992.
Now Shao Long Temple in Jinyun Mountain claims to be the only Taoist stunt troupe in China, which was established with the disciples of Bashu stunt troupe as the backbone.
Bashu Acrobatic Troupe is a street performer. At that time, business was bad and income was meager. Li Yi and his disciples lead a hard life. Qiu was deeply impressed by this: "At that time, I was often dragged by him to be the host. Their performance borders on art, and the audience is sparse. I'm worried about their situation, and I'm exempt from the custody fee. His parents also came to help, buying food and cooking for them. "
Later, Li Yi gradually became famous in the local area. A Chongqing citizen still remembers that many years ago, a friend mysteriously took him to see the master's kung fu in a shabby house in Shiqiaopu, saying that he was not afraid of electricity.
"When we got there, we had some people. Master Yi Lee was still very thin at that time. After meeting everyone, he took off the lamp holder, took out a wire saying it was a live wire, and took out another wire saying it was a zero wire, and then asked everyone to hold hands. He held a live wire and extended his hand to the first person ... I also felt the current flowing through these stupid people ... numb! I worshipped him at that time. "
Yi Lee's "Kung Fu" was also highly praised by another person, that is, Liu Zongchao, president of Chongqing Guoguang Group, one of the top ten outstanding entrepreneurs in Chongqing at that time. According to the insider, in 1993, in order to expand the influence of the stunt troupe and get out of the predicament, Li Yi and his disciples planned a hiking expedition, and the destination was Long Mai in the south of China.
Liu Zongchao sponsored Yi Lee and his disciples to form an expedition, with the purpose of helping Yi Lee and promoting the corporate brand, and named it "Guoguang Expedition". In order to create a selling point, Yi Lee announced before he left that he must catch the savage in Shennongjia, Hubei, or he would not come back.
The news that the dragon frame caught the savage immediately attracted the attention of dozens of media. However, the good times did not last long. At this time, because of blind expansion, Guoguang Group's capital chain was broken, sponsorship funds could not be put in place, and Li Yi's expedition had to return down and out, and life was in trouble again.
This is a Qigong fever all over the country. Li Yi started Qigong class in 1994, with Dadukou as the main activity place. He and his disciples "created" a set of dragon qigong. According to Li Yi's former disciples, this set of "skills" is actually a patchwork, written by a graduate with the highest academic qualifications among Li Yi's disciples. This person has already left Yi Lee, and now he is the manager of a famous catering company in Chongqing.
After the Qigong class was founded, Li Yi and his disciples were still "hungry". Around 1996, Li Yi opened a massage "Daoyiguang" and began his "Taoist health-preserving journey". This massage parlor is located in a special place, next to the small auditorium of Chongqing Municipal Committee.
Qiu said that Li Yi was able to open a "road to light" in the courtyard of the municipal party committee because he cured a city leader's illness and was highly appreciated by him. Subsequently, under the recommendation of a deputy director of the General Office of the Municipal Party Committee at that time, Li Yi rented a small building with one floor and one bottom next to the small auditorium.
A bagua diagram is hung at the entrance of this road. There are no signs or medical equipment. Yi Lee was not qualified to practice medicine, so he started the experiment of "electrotherapy". But the embarrassment of life still goes hand in hand.
Gan Quanzhong, vice president of Jinyun Mountain Taoist Association, witnessed Li Yi's situation at that time. At that time, Gan was the man of the hour in the business circle and the legal representative of Sichuan Securities Co., Ltd., and went to Yiguang for treatment due to illness. He said that at that time, the charge of Yiguang was very low, and Li Yi and several disciples ate the last meal without the next meal. They only have a rice cooker and no cookers, or he bought them some cookers specially. He was the chairman of several companies and was investigated by the police for a project.
However, Yi Lee's life finally reached a turning point.
With a special location, Li Yi has accumulated a lot of political and business resources quickly. During this period, he began to know a large group of friends such as Feng Xiaochun.
According to Sweet Tea Ceremony Man, Feng Xiaochun, 1965, a native of Yibin, Sichuan, was originally a reporter of an internal newspaper, and he was "slick and friendly". This person has since become a member of Yi Lee's "think tank".
Starting from 1997, with the help of political and business people and the planning of "think tank", Li began his journey as a businessman. Li, who set foot in business for the first time, founded a big company. During the periods of 1997 and 1998, he successively served as the chairman of a series of companies, such as Chongqing Huaxia Culture Communication Service Company and Chongqing Dehong Culture Communication Company, and also founded Chongqing Beibei Protection Taoist Culture Promotion Association and served as its own president.
1In July, 1998, Li Yi founded Chongqing Longren Culture Group (hereinafter referred to as Chongqing Longren) with its subsidiaries Chongqing Dehong Culture Company, Beibei Protection Taoist Culture Promotion Association, Chongqing Xiangyuan Industry and Trade Company and Chongqing Lianchang Shoes Company. Yi Lee became the chairman.
Soon after Chongqing Longren was founded, he set his eyes on the equity of a company in dadukou district, namely Chongqing National Electronics Group. 1at the end of 998, after the acquisition of shareholders' equity, Longren firmly controlled the state-owned group.
The state-owned group holds 90% equity of Chongqing Runda Poverty Alleviation Investment Company. Therefore, Chongqing Longren easily controlled Runda through the state. Chongqing Runda is a company approved by the Taiwan Affairs Office of Chongqing, specializing in poverty alleviation investment.
Dadukou district police said that before Chongqing Longren entered Runda, Li Yi and Xiao Yi, the chairman and general manager of Longren, worked as financial managers and general managers in Runda respectively.
The fact is that after Chongqing Longren Holdings Runda helped the poor, Li initially pulled a lot of money from Runda. Later, in the "three gold and three chaos" inventory, it was found that Runda borrowed more than 654.38+million yuan from dadukou district Township Enterprise Investment Company. When the police traced the flow of funds, they found that all of them were in the hands of Li Yi.
Yi Lee mainly used these funds for two projects. One is Tianyi Building invested by Li Yi near Dadukou Ceramic Market. The "three golds and three chaos" inventory broke the capital chain, and the building was repaired to the seventh floor and became an unfinished building. People who have bought houses in advance keep petitioning. Another project is Shao Long Temple in Jinyun Mountain, Li Yi.
Chongqing police investigation found that Yang Tao, the legal representative of Runda's poverty alleviation, had already been excluded by Li Yi and replaced, but his legal representative status has not changed in industrial and commercial materials. Li Yi and Shao Longguan were added as executors. Although he promised to repay, he said that he had no other assets except the Taoist temple in Jinyun Mountain.
Finally, Tianyi Building was auctioned by the judicial authorities, and a red-flag car of Li Yi was recovered. "Shao Long Temple is a religious place, so it is not convenient to seal it up for sale. Therefore, although the case has been pronounced, it has not been implemented and closed. " People familiar with Dadukou also said that from 1998 to 2005, the case was interrupted several times during the investigation and execution.
According to the police data, as of 2005, Li Yi and Runda Company owed the principal of dadukou district Township Enterprise Investment Company 7.3 million yuan, "plus the late payment fee, it has already exceeded10 million yuan".
Chongqing Longren and Runda Poverty Alleviation Co., Ltd. were revoked their business licenses in 2000 and 200 1 respectively, because there was no annual inspection. Relevant parties in Dadukou, Chongqing are quite helpless about Li Yi's "Lao Lai" behavior. According to the dadukou district police, every time Li Yi is summoned by the police, she will give the police a performance of frying fish in the palm of her hand and electrifying her body. Some institutions act as behind-the-scenes promoters, and media reports add fuel to the flames.
In Qiu's view, since 2005, Li Yi has become busy, and more importantly, "he has worked very hard, read many Confucian classics and made rapid progress".
"Sweet Tea Ceremony Man" commented that Yi Lee had a strong memory, was smart and witty, and was very good at accepting new things. He took the initiative to learn computers at 1998. On the other hand, Li Yi loves Gu Long's novels, and his character is deeply influenced by them.
"He is a smiling tiger. He is very friendly to people. He likes to hug his waist and shoulders to show intimacy, but he is also very smart. Making friends puts interests first." "Sweet Tea Ceremony Man" even revealed that Yi Lee didn't know much martial arts. "I have known him for more than ten years, and I have never seen him show martial arts."
But what surprised the "sweet tea ceremony man" was how Li Yi became so famous in a few years and became a "Li Shenxian", "health expert" and "master of Chinese studies".
According to a brief introduction from Beijing Zhongzhi Xinda Education Technology Co., Ltd., Li Yishen holds several titles: visiting professor at Cambridge University in the UK, professor at Kuala Lumpur College of Chinese Medicine in Malaysia, honorary president of German Traditional Health Culture Association, and consultant of Malaysian Taoist Association; He has been invited to teach Chinese studies and health culture in famous universities at home and abroad, such as Peking University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Cambridge University, Oxford University, Reading University, London University and Nottingham University.
Zhongzhi Xinda said, "Li Yichong's long speech is directed at life and career, with rich and vivid language, flashing wisdom and connotation, which enables listeners to get rid of the shackles of inertial thinking, stand at an unprecedented height of thought and overlook life and enter an unprecedented openness and clarity."
A survey by Times Weekly reporter found that in fact, Zhongzhi Xinda and Li Yiyuan have deep roots.
Cixin Xinda is a training institution. Its staff Zhao Xin claimed to be Yi Lee's assistant. He told Time Weekly that Yi Lee was discovered by accident in 2004. "At that time, he was not famous yet. We held a try attitude and asked him to explain the health course to our executive training class for free."
The effect was good, and Yi Lee's lecture soon received enthusiastic response from the students. Zhao Xin said that Li Yi met a large number of elite friends in the training class of CIIC Xinda. They are celebrities, corporate executives, rich people and so on.
In 2005, the famous director Zhang Jizhong was invited to Jinyun Mountain for medical treatment, accompanied by his wife Fan Xinman, actors Faye Wong and Li. Later, Fan Xinman published the best-selling book "Is there a fairy in the world" based on this experience, and recorded and recommended Li Yi's regimen for the first time.
Since then, Li has often been invited by TV stations to do programs and give lectures, such as the Century Lecture Hall of Phoenix TV, the Threesome, Oriental TV and Hunan TV. Cixin Xinda also launched the Yi Lee Health CD, and Yi Lee published the book Good Health Care. Subsequently, China Entrepreneur and Southern People Weekly successively launched large-scale reports.
Li Yi was gradually smeared with sacred luster. Since 2009, CIIC Xinda has cooperated deeply with Yi Lee, and regularly launched a five-day and four-night "health training camp" for high-end people. Li Yi personally teaches health therapy and exercise. The fee charged by each student is 16800 yuan.
"Before, we asked Master Yi Lee to give lectures without charge. Now each special training camp company needs to donate 300,000 to 400,000 yuan. " Zhao Xin said.
Times Weekly reporter has made a field visit to Shaolongguan at present. Shao Long Temple attracts many health practitioners. Jianhu Health Hotel in the temple is full all the year round, and the price is high. Deluxe suite 1699 yuan per day, standard room 488 yuan. Houses of nearby farmers are often rented by Xianyou from other places for a long time.
The hype and commercialization of Taoist health preservation concept are too heavy.
Liu Guangrui, owner of Chongqing Shaolin Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has been observing Li Yi. "He is very smart, very talented in speech, and a person who keeps pace with the times." He humorously called Li Yi the spokesman of "fashionable and happy Taoism". Through his popular performances, religion got rid of mystery and achieved popularity.
However, Liu Guangrui believes that Yi Lee's concept of Taoist health care is too hyped and commercialized. "Taoist health is not a simple farmhouse, nor a simple sanatorium, but a place for spiritual recovery."
He gained insight into Yi Lee's business mind. In 2009, Li Yideng visited him and planned to open a Taoist health center and apply for "Chongqing Taoist Intangible Heritage". Liu Guangrui has a folk medicine museum and is an expert on intangible culture in Chongqing. Li Yi invited him to help build it.
In specific contact, the two have different ideas. "He insists that as soon as the project is planned, he will take the money of' editing' the enterprise; I think the Taoist health center focuses on investigating and understanding the Taoist culture scattered among the people. " Liu Guangrui said that Li Yi's purpose is too commercial and does not conform to cultural characteristics. Finally refused to cooperate with him.
Master Pu Xiu of Wenquan Temple in Jinyun Mountain bluntly said that "it is hype, not propaganda of traditional culture and Taoist health-keeping kung fu". In his view, once religion gains commercial benefits through hype, it is no different from a "charlatan".
In the eyes of people familiar with Li, Li's habit of speculation has a long history. From participating in TV stunt competitions, to setting up stunt groups to perform in the streets, and then creating "Dragon Qigong" by himself, "he really learned some stunts from folk artists, and he is a good artist and actor".
1997 65438+1October19, in the "Best in the World" column of Shanghai TV, Li Yi sat in a glass container that looked full of water. The water is higher than his nose and mouth, and several fish swim around him. Two uniformed people announced in the program: "Now, on behalf of the Shanghai Notary Office as a national notary, I declare that Li Jun's time in a sealed container is 2 hours and 22 minutes. The above performance process is true and effective."
In the upsurge of crusade against Yi Lee, netizens turned this video out. Surprisingly, in the face of doubts, the Shanghai Notary Office stated that "notarized information will not be released to anyone except the parties".
"This performance is actually magic. There is a mechanism. There is also a glass jar filled with air in the glass jar filled with water. " The whistleblower told Time Weekly that he was familiar with and had communication with Li Yidi, who was in charge of program props. The disciple told him the secret quietly.
Yi Lee's performance of "electrifying the human body to see a doctor" is simpler. Yi Lee, a "think tank" who participated in the planning, said, "The human body can withstand certain voltage shocks, but it needs certain operating skills."
The person also said, "playing the organ has long been arranged in the socket, and it must be answered by one person, either hiding outside the wall or standing inside the wall to adjust the voltage."
Despite Li Yi's uproar, Chongqing's religious circles can be described as "undercurrent surging", and many people are watching. "At some point, I can be in" Is there a fairy on earth? "and pointed out that he is full of loopholes." A religious person in Chongqing said so.