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2020-05-03 08:58
Tao Hongjing (AD 456-536), whose name was Liangzi, was born in Liling, Danyang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) in the Southern Dynasties. He lived in seclusion and was a famous doctor, alchemist and writer.
Tao Hongjing lived in the Southern Dynasties and experienced the Song and Qi Dynasties. At that time, he was an influential figure. He is knowledgeable, proficient in astronomical calendar, mountains and rivers, medicine, chess, piano, calligraphy and painting, and even the five elements of Yin and Yang, and has made certain contributions to ancient science and technology such as medicine, alchemy, astronomy, geography, biology and mathematics.
Tao Hongjing has different ideas from ordinary people since he was a child. When he was 10 years old, he got Ge Hong's Biography of Immortals in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He studied it day and night, and since then he has the ambition to keep fit.
Tao Hongjing once said to people, "Looking up at the blue sky and witnessing the sun is not far away."
/kloc-at the age of 0/5, Tao Hongjing wrote "Looking for Mountains" and praised his seclusion. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, he was famous for his talent.
In the Song and Yuan Dynasties (477), when Tao Hongjing was 265,438+0 years old, the leading general of the Song Dynasty (that is, Qi Emperor) launched a mutiny, except that after the Song Dynasty, he abolished the emperor and took charge of state affairs. Two years later, Song proclaimed himself emperor and established Nanqi.
Because of Tao Hongjing's great fame at that time, Xiao Daocheng made him an accompanying student of the king and made him an official post of HIVE BOX.
In the tenth year of Qi Yongming (492), 36-year-old Tao Hongjing had no intention of official career, so he resigned from his post on the table, hung up his official uniform at the gate of Shenwumen, and lived in seclusion in Qushan (Maoshan) in Jurong, Jiangsu Province, without making friends with the world.
Since then, Tao Hongjing has lived in seclusion here. He often said, "Below this mountain is the eighth cave of Taoism, which is called Huayangtian in Jintan and 150 Li in Fiona Fang. In the pre-Han Dynasty, Sanmaojun of Xianyang cultivated into an immortal to be in charge of this mountain, so it was called Maoshan. "
Tao Hongjing also built a Taoist temple on the mountain, calling himself Huayang Yin Jun, and began to learn from Sun Youyue, a native of Dongyang.
Tao Hongjing carried forward the classic methods of the Qing Dynasty here and wrote a lot of important Taoist works, including astronomical calendars, geographical prescriptions, medical health preservation and smelting. According to statistics, there are as many as seventy or eighty kinds of works. Tao Hongjing also became the founder of the Maoshan School of Taoism.
Tao Hongjing also compiled the first Taoist immortal pedigree in China-the true spirit bitmap, which includes gods, earth gods, ghosts and many immortals, with about 3,000 people, arranged in seven grades.
In 502 AD, he became the monarch who replaced Qi, and made friends with Tao Hongjing for a long time. Letters and greetings between them never stopped. After he became emperor, his friendship deepened. "The more polite you are, the more books you ask."
Liang Wudi should consult Tao Hongjing about state affairs. In view of this, there are always dignitaries to visit the secluded mountain in Tao Hongjing. Therefore, talents gave Tao Hongjing the title of "Prime Minister in the Mountain".
Although Liang Wudi was very kind to Tao Hongjing, Liang Wudi was a Buddhist monarch in Chinese history. Therefore, Tao Hongjing, as a representative of Maoshan Taoism, had to accept Buddhism under the national environment of worshipping Buddhism in Nanliang.
On one occasion, Tao Hongjing dreamed that the Buddha handed him the Bodhi Book and called him the Victory Bodhisattva. So, after waking up, Tao Hongjing went to Ashoka Tower in Maoxian County (now Ningbo, Zhejiang Province) to be ordained and became a legend who practiced Buddhism and Taoism.
In fact, Tao Hongjing's move was not voluntary, but to safeguard the survival of Maoshan Taoists. It is this that avoids the ending of a new death. I like Kou.
Tao Hongjing lived in seclusion in Maoshan for forty-five years at the age of eighty-one. When he died, his appearance and color did not change. Liang Wudi named him the third doctor, posthumous title Baizhen, and sent officials to arrange his funeral in the palace.