Ge Hong's grandfather's name is Ge and his father's name is Ge Ti, both of whom were officials of the State of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. From the ancestor Ge Xuan, the word filial piety, he studied alchemy under the famous alchemist Zuo Ci of Wei, so he was later called Ge Gong Xian. Ge Hong/Kloc-lost his father at the age of 0/3, and his family was poor and studious. /kloc-when he was 0/6 years old, he began to read Confucian classics "filial piety" and "Analects of Confucius", and tried to read the Five Classics, determined to become a scholar. He believes that "talent is not for politics, and tools are not enough to enlighten the people", so he is proud of "not being an official", so he develops to "speaking", and his basic thought is dominated by Confucianism. However, when he was eighteen or nineteen years old (before the first year of Tai 'an), he went to Lujiang (now Lujiang, Anhui Province) and entered Maji Mountain, where he became his assistant by worshipping Ge Xuan's disciple and alchemist Andrew. He also accepted books such as Zhengyi School of French, Huang San Characters, The True Shape of Five Mountains, Five Images of Cave and Mystery, and Huangdi Jiuding Shendan Sutra. 2 1 year-old (Tai 'an year 2, 303) conquered the rebel army headed by Zhang Chang and defeated the rebel general Shi Bing at the invitation of the satrap. Everything went well, and he "went to Luoyang to look for different books, regardless of the meritorious military service." However, it coincided with the funeral of the Western Jin Dynasty and the road in the north was blocked, so he traveled all over Xu, Yu, Jing, Xiang, Jiao and Guang and met hundreds of popular Taoist priests. In the first year of Guangxi (306), at the age of 24, he went to Guangzhou, where he was hired by Bao Liang, the magistrate of Nanhai, to learn the magic of immortals and marry his daughter. Soon after, he returned to his hometown. After that, he devoted himself to practice and writing for more than 65,438+00 years, and also attacked medical skills. About the first year of Jianwu (3 17), that is, at the age of 35, he wrote 20 volumes of Bao Puzi's inner chapter, 50 volumes of Bao Puzi's outer chapter, and the biography of the immortal 10 (revised again when he was nearly 40 years old), as well as medical books Yu and Yu. His "Inner Chapter" is about the immortal prescription, the change of ghosts and gods, health and longevity, and evil is evil, which belongs to Taoism. The external article discusses the gains and losses in the world and belongs to Confucianism. In the early years of Emperor Xianhe of Jincheng (326-334), he wanted to go to Funan (now southern Cambodia and Vietnam) to collect cinnabar for burning mercury for alchemy, so he went to Guangzhou, but was discouraged by Deng Yue, and then went to Luofushan (located on the bank of Dongjiang River in Boluo County, Guangdong Province) for practice. Kandy, Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, died in the first year of Jianyuan (343) at the age of 6 1.