Introduction: As a "health expert", Taoist Li Yi fell from the altar, and the Taoist concept of cultivation attracted people's attention. In fact, the average local time, a Taoist practitioner, should be quiet, tidy and solemn. Speaking of it, there are many ways to cultivate monasticism, that is, quietly and naturally seek "quietness" and "forgetting to leave the country." However, the Taoist Temple in the Tang Dynasty is not a quiet and natural place of "quietism" and "leaving the hometown", but a place of romantic and dissolute fun, hiding evil spirits and avoiding evil spirits, which attracted the royal princesses in the Tang Dynasty to take off their crests and put on their robes and enter this paradise. In fact, the royal female Taoist priest can be said to be the most remarkable feature of the Tang Dynasty, especially the royal female Taoist priest, which is even more eye-catching. This is because the royal princesses in the Tang Dynasty took being female Taoist priests as the social fashion trend and went out of the palace to become female Taoist priests one after another. Of course, if we talk about the story of the princess of the Tang Dynasty striving to be a female Taoist, we can't help talking about Princess Yu Zhen. Princess Yu Zhen is the granddaughter of Wu Zetian and the sister of Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. When she was young, she volunteered to be a Taoist woman. It turned out that Princess Yu Zhen was only in her early twenties, but she was not married. Therefore, she asked her father, Tang Ruizong Li Dan, to be a female Taoist in the palace. Tang Ruizong, of course, will not easily agree to this request, mainly for fear of wronged his daughter. However, Princess Yu Zhen was very determined, and she put forward reasons for praying for her mother. This probably reminds his father of his poor mother who had an accident. She is really a lonely soul and needs to cross over. So Tang Ruizong agreed to her daughter's request.

This spring is the season when the weather is fine and the grass grows and the warblers fly. Outside Chang 'an, a large-scale project called "Landscape in Earthquake" started construction. Every day, thousands of Li people are forced to give up farm work and build Taoist temples. After more than a year's construction, Princess Yu Zhen lived in the grand Taoist temple of "Xu Antai Jade Pavilion, Treasure Elephant and Treasure Shrine". There are also many retired songs of the Royal Orchestra and some retired ladies-in-waiting. Taoist temples are like women's palaces. Three fairy mountains, Penglai, Yingzhou and abbot, were simulated and artificial landscapes were built. There is a saying in Tang poetry that "knowing that there is a jade leaf crown, cutting clouds and cutting the moon shines on people." The name of Princess Yu Zhen holds the surplus. She has a jade crown, which is priceless. "People can't calculate its price." Every night when the wind is clear and the moon is bright, there is a clear voice of prosperity in the Taoist temple. In the man-made landscape, Song * * * Lang performs the human drama of Xianyou. Princess Yu Zhen's life is much more carefree than other married princesses, just like a single queen.

In fact, Princess Yu Zhen was not the only one who became a female Taoist in the Tang Dynasty. In the nearly 300 years from Gaozu to Zhaozong, among the 2 10 princesses of Li Tang royal family, 12 princesses became female Taoist priests. Wang Jian, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, said in Yu Rui Dialect of Tang Changguan: "The female crown looks for incense at night and only watches the front desk jade." The female crown is also called the female Huang Guan, also known as the female crown, that is, the female Taoist priest. Female crowns in Tang Dynasty can be divided into two categories, namely, Xiuzhen female crowns and Guan Gong female crowns, and the latter refers to princess female crowns. It can be seen that it was a fashion for the princess to go out of the palace to be a female Taoist. So, what's the secret behind the princess's struggle to be a female Taoist in the Tang Dynasty? In fact, these enlightened princesses didn't really become monks at that time. They usually take their families with them. The princess's entry into Taoism in the Tang Dynasty indicates that the worship of Taoism by the emperors in the Tang Dynasty echoes the gradually formed system within Taoism.

During the period of Emperor Gaozu and Emperor Taizong, there was no record of a princess entering the Taoist temple. In the period of Emperor Gaozong, Princess Daoism began to rise, which became a way for princesses to escape from the secular world and escape to another world. The reason why princesses in the whole Tang Dynasty entered Taoism was because they had their own religious feelings held by Taoism, which made some noble lords gain their ideals and wishes of liberation and secular life. Being a monk and giving up one's family for being a nun have different meanings in the Tang Dynasty, which is also because Taoism's unique characteristics of seeking immortality give Taoist another kind of care. The princess is the daughter of the son of heaven, and her status is respected. The princess chose to enter the Tao, which set off an atmosphere of entering the Tao among the people. The leisure life of a princess is different from that of a folk Taoist, which makes the life of a female crown a fashion in the Tang Dynasty.

In short, the motives of princesses in the Tang Dynasty can be summarized as the desire for Taoism, the pursuit of happiness, the extension of life span, and the excuse for her husband to leave home after his death. These are all related to the conversion intensity of religious consciousness. But more often, princesses take the initiative to enter the Tao, or to enjoy the free relationship between men and women.

At that time, there were many women scrambling to become female Taoist priests, the most famous of whom were talented women, such as Yu. In the Tang Dynasty, women's rights became stronger and stronger. Some girls refused to get married, preferring to be single and lead a more free and selective love life. "Female Taoist" is a more decent cover-up. A "female Taoist priest" can receive male guests at will, just like the hostess of a salon. There are also some girls who hide from marriage and become "female Taoist priests" for a year and a half, and then re-match.