Chen Yingning, born in the sixth year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1880), was named Gan Ningzi. Originally from Huaining, Anhui Province, I live in Sujiaxiang, Anqing. The youngest son inherited his family studies, familiarized himself with Confucian classics, mastered a hundred schools of thought and learned three religions. When I was ten years old, I read fairy tales, that is, I had the idea of learning immortals. A little longer, and you will be a scholar. Because of tuberculosis, I studied medicine with my uncle, and tried to do fairy work at the same time, and gradually recovered.

1905 was admitted to Anhui College of Political Science and Law. Two years later, he had a relapse and dropped out of school.

Starting from 1908, in order to learn health preservation methods, he left home for advice, got some recipes of Danfa, and met several real teachers.

19 12 to 19 14. I lived in my sister-in-law Qiao Zhongshan's house and went to Shanghai Baiyun to watch the Taoist scriptures, so I found out the details of Taoist alchemy. For comparison, he went to Huayan University in Chao Hai Temple in Hangzhou to study Buddhist scriptures. Go to Beijing and visit Takashima.

19 16 returned to Shanghai from Beijing and married Hao, a western doctor. The couple opened their own clinic in Minguo Road, Shanghai.

From 1922 to 1932, Chen Yingning and several comrades-in-arms conducted hundreds of foreign experiments at home, but they were all destroyed by warlords and Japanese invaders. 1933 dr. zhang founded Yangshan bimonthly magazine in Shanghai, and specially set up a column to answer readers' questions, with as the lead author. Taking advantage of this position, Chen Yingning vigorously advocated the theory of "immortality" and United many virtuous people, making it the center of the study of immortality in China at that time.

1In August, 937, Japanese invaders attacked Shanghai, and (Yangshan Bimonthly) was forced to stop publishing.

Dr. zhang founded Sendao Monthly in 1939, and is still one of the main authors.

194 1 In the summer of, the magazine stopped publishing again because of the dangerous situation in Shanghai. Since then, Chen Yingning still insisted on studying immortals and taught his disciples.

1953, Zhejiang provincial government hired Chen Yingning as the librarian of the provincial literature and history research museum.

1956 autumn, proposed to establish a Chinese Taoist association, and Chen Yingning was invited as the preparatory committee member.

1957 In April, the Chinese Taoist Association was formally established, and he was elected as the vice president and secretary general.

196 1 was elected president of the Chinese Taoist Association and served as a member of the second and third Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

During the "Cultural Revolution", the Chinese Taoist Association was forced to stop working, and Chen Yingning was hospitalized in Beijing Hospital.

1969 On May 25th, Chen Yingning died at the age of 89.

His works are very rich, covering the contents of Dan Dao and historical theory. There are nearly 30 kinds of lectures, such as Huang Tingjing, Lengyan Jing, Introduction to Teaching Theory, General Theory of Gong Jing, Study of Fifty Chapters of Laozi, Rehabilitation Law of Gong Jing, Similarities and Differences between Immortals and Three Religions.