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Late Southern Song Dynasty

Zhang Sanfeng once wrote a poem "Going to Heaven", which is a self-report of the patriarch's quest for the golden path and successful cultivation process. [20] It can be used as an important reference for Zhang Sanfeng's life and background. The editor here quotes words and sentences to explain his birth, image and early experience of Mr. Mitutoyo.

Portrait of Zhang Sanfeng

Portrait of Zhang Sanfeng

The words are: "Dayuan floats away as a guest, flicks his beard like a halberd, and walks up the ladder with a song, and can be used as a flying tin. Returning to the beginning of the road, not turning his heart like a stone, abandoning the official to travel to the sea, trying hard to find the secrets, and let me die. I can’t leave my tomb in the countryside. Don’t leave my middle-aged woman. When I go out, the sky is white. I leave my corner, turn around and leave the fire house. , To prove the fruit of longevity, rush to ride the cranes. The day after tomorrow, cultivate strong, two feet into the service, leisurely destroy my heart, fleeting horses pass the gap, head to Nanshan, sigh to Tiansan.

Heavenly Fire Dragon Master, Xuanyin Sensing one by one, knowing my inner alchemy, don’t talk about building a foundation, give me external alchemy, pitiful and confidant, refine oneself and forget the world, gather medicine according to the season, congenital no burden, no fire. The strategy is to only divide the old and the young, but to separate civil and military, purely ask for the truth. It is difficult to understand the sword and the spirit. In October, the baby is born, and the wall is added to the wall in nine years. Weng Shou Wuji. [20]

According to historical records, Mr. Zhang Sanfeng lived in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. The phrase "Daiyuan Piaoyuanke" is the same as "Daiyuan Piaoyuanke." (Lv Dongbin "Knock Yao Song" ), the two patriarchs both called themselves "Ke", which is different from the modern popular meaning of "Ke". Taoist monks practiced as "Ke", which is a modest name for being a monk without a home and abandoning the world. There is a version of "Dayuan Piaoyuanke" which is also written as "Dayuan Piaopengke". The word "yuan" is changed to "Peng", which means that Taoist cultivators become Penglai cyclists. Historical facts have proved that Mr. Zhang Sanfeng was mainly active in the Ming Dynasty. If it is changed to "Peng", it should be "Da Ming" Piao Pengke, which is more appropriate. Therefore, the phrase in "Shang Tian Ladder" is more in line with the time span when the ancestor was born in the last years of the Song Dynasty and became a monk at Zhongnanshan at the age of 67.

The phrase "Flick your beard like a halberd" is a self-portrait of Mr. Zhang Sanfeng. According to historical records, Mr. Zhang Sanfeng's appearance is "abundant and mysterious, with a tortoise-shaped crane back, big ears and round eyes". Flick, lush beard. It shows that the ancestor was a beautiful bearded man with thick and lush cheeks and a halberd-like beard.

The sentence "Abandoned officials to travel to Haiyue and work hard to find secrets of alchemy" records that Mr. Zhang Sanfeng was once an alternate official. The reason why he gave up his fame and traveled so hard to travel around the world was to find the true master and obtain the Golden Core Avenue. The true story.

The sentence "I can't leave the tomb of my dead relatives, I can't stay in the mountains" stated that the ancestor left his hometown in order to find the secret of the pill and violated the ancestor's precepts without worrying about the middle-aged funeral.

"Don't me middle-aged woman, go out to the sky, leave my corner, turn around and leave the fire house." The sentence stated that the patriarch was a middle-aged monk and practiced. In order to alleviate the suffering caused by the monkhood to his wife and children, he left home quietly when it was light. The Patriarch's determination to leave his middle-aged wife and young son cruelly was rooted in the unconventional theory of monasticism. [20] From the self-reporting in the upper half of "The Ladder to Heaven", we can learn about Mr. Zhang Sanfeng's life time, appearance, family situation, family members, etc., especially his courage before he became a monk, as well as his vision of fame and wealth and abandoning officialdom. , Abandoned Ding worry, left home, goodbye wife, abandoned son, wandering, channeling, visiting the Taoism, cultivating the hard life, etc., between the lines in the "Ladder to Heaven", they all tell us in detail.

"Heavenly Fire Dragon Master, Xuan Yin Shen one by one", the ancestor said, thank God for his love, let me meet the Fire Dragon Master, the teacher vowels carefully, and explained the secrets of alchemy pills for me one by one. Here is a very important sentence in the second paragraph about the life of Master Sanfeng. The Fire Dragon Master mentioned here is Mr. Fire Dragon Jia Desheng.

Early Ming Dynasty

Portrait of Zhang Sanfeng

Portrait of Zhang Sanfeng

At the beginning of the year, Zhang Sanfeng returned to his hometown to visit the tomb and returned to Yanjing. Xishan had to meet Qiu Taoists and talked about Taoism, knowing that Qiu was the master who met in his early years. After farewell, he returned to Qin and Shu, visited Wuyue of Jingchu, lived in Jinling, and preached Shen Wansan. Later he still entered the Qin Dynasty and lived in Jintaiguan. In the nineteenth year of Zhengzheng, when Zhang Sanfeng was leaving Jinling, he foresaw that Shen Wansan would be assigned to the frontiers, so he exhorted: "The kings of the east and the west are prosperous, and we will meet in the southwest in the future."

On September 20th, 19th year, Yangshen was out on a trip, and his disciple Yang Guishan thought that he had emerged, put a coffin, and was engulfed, and Shiyangshen returned. Mitutoyo Niangui Mountain was simple and kind, so he took it away. In the next two years, the Yuan Dynasty was exhausted, and the Ming master was not established, and Zhang Sanfeng conquered Wudang Mountain. In Wudang, he searched for wonders, and saw all the temples and temples were destroyed by fire, saying that "this mountain will be prosperous in the next day". Then led the Taoists to clean up the ruins of various palaces and temples one by one, and create temples to spread the incense. At the time, there were Qiu Yuanqing, Lu Qiuyun, Zhang Zhenyang, Ye Yang, Zhang Jingtao, Sun Biyun, etc., and Zhang Shouqing had to associate with Sanfeng and become a dao friend.

During the seventeenth to eighteenth years of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Sanfeng to enter Beijing twice, but he avoided seeing them. In the twenty-three years of Hongwu, Zhang Sanfeng left Wudang to revert to wandering around.

In the 25th year of Hongwu, Zhang Sanfeng escaped into Yunnan. At this time, Shen Wansan was convicted of offending Zhu Yuanzhang and his family was sent to Yunnan. When I met Zhang Sanfeng in Yunnan, he was in response to the saying "I should meet in the southwest in the future." Zhang Sanfeng then took Shen Wansantianyuan's pill, and the couple had to take it and soared day by day.

At the beginning of Yongle, Zhu Di ordered Hu Guangzhao to visit Sanfeng again, but he did not know that Hu Guang met Sanfeng in Wudang. (Hu Guang's name is Xunxian, but he is Xunjian Wendi.)

In the ten years of Yongle, the ancestor Zhu Di mobilized more than 300,000 military and civilian craftsmen. After ten years, huge engineering buildings such as Eight Palaces, Erguan, 36 Temples, and 72 Rock Temple were built. At that time, Sanfeng was among the people, and Zhu Di sent people to visit repeatedly. According to the records of "Zhang Sanfeng's Biography", in the spring of 1418, Emperor Yongle deliberately drove to Wudang, Junzhou to visit Zhang Sanfeng. Sanfeng was absent, and he came back in a happy mood. Emperor Yongle was furious, so he ordered a man named Hu Guang to look for Zhang Sanfeng. If he couldn't find Zhang Sanfeng, he would execute Hu Guang.

Portrait of Zhang Sanfeng

Portrait of Zhang Sanfeng

In the 14th year of Yongle, Zhu Di angrily rebuked Hu Guangxun for Sanfeng's failure. Hu Guang visited Wudang again and prayed in Wudang. Legend has it that Zhang Sanfeng was invited by the Supreme Master to participate in the Fairy Fair, and he was heading for a cloud head. After passing Wudang, he felt Hu Guangzhi’s prayers, so he pressed the cloud head and landed in front of Hu Guang and said to him: "Go back to Beijing to see you. I just go, don't worry too much." Hu Guang rode his horse back to Beijing. New Year's Eve also won the capital of the capital, Mr. Naizhi Mitutoyo had a side with Yongle at the Golden Palace earlier than before. This is the theory of "Golden Palace Ascending". There was also a legend at that time, saying that Zhang Sanfeng could fly into the palace and escape back, but these are not enough to be believed. But one thing is still true. Zhang Sanfeng wrote a letter and asked his disciple Sun Biyun to report to Emperor Yongle, telling him the specific way of longevity. Because the emperor wanted to live long, it was almost common sense.

In the early years of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1723), Mr. Wang Mengjiu once met Zhang Sanfeng to show his teachings. At this time Mitutoyo should be several hundred years old. Because of Zhang Sanfeng's rising reputation, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty gave him three more titles. That is, Ming Yingzong bestowed him as "Tongwei Xianhua Zhenren"; Ming Xianzong specially named him "Taoguang Shangzhi Zhenxian"; Ming Shizong bestowed him as "Qing Xu Yuan Miao Zhenjun". Historical records record that Zhang Sanfeng has a tortoise-shaped crane back, big ears and round eyes, and a beard like a halberd. Zhang Sanfeng founded the Taoist school in Wudang Mountain-Sanfeng School, and became the founder of Wudang Wugong.

It was Zhenren Qiu who made him resolutely become a monk. In his old age, he spread the secret in Zhongnan Mountain, and it was the real fire dragon who made him Taoist, and then Zhang Sanfeng followed the ancestor of the Huashan Sleeping Immortal Chen Tuan. He said in the last few sentences of "Stinging Dragon Yin": "The Heavenly General's Sleeping Method is passed on to Tunan, and the Tunan faction can survive, and the sloppy Taoist Zhang Banxian." He also called Chen Tuan as "Old Xiyi" in the "Secret of Taiji Alchemy". "Ancestor", called Mr. Huolong "my teacher", and declared that the reason why Huolong was not famous was because he despised the floating name, so he didn't even leave his name. He just left a quatrain for future generations and left the world. His quatrain goes: "The Dao Hao is the same as Zheng Huolong, and his name is hidden in Taixu. Since he got Sanfeng, he returned to Penglai Weak Shuidong." Later, Li Xiyue, a Taoist priest of the Qing Dynasty who worshipped Zhang Sanfeng, returned to Sanfeng for this reason. It is the Hermit School represented by Chen Tuan, and the order of its ancestors is arranged as: "Mai passes on Xiyi, Xiyi passes on the fire dragon, and the fire dragon passes on Sanfeng." But one thing is certain, that is, Zhang Sanfeng did inherit Chen Tuan. The Dao-based doctrine and inner alchemy thought of Taoist masters since.

According to reports, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Sanfeng helped Hongwu capture the country. After Zhu Yuanzhang became the throne, he sent people to look for Zhang Sanfeng many times. When the Ming Dynasty became the ancestor, Zhu Di claimed to be the incarnation of Emperor Zhenwu, “built the Forbidden City in the north, and built Wudang in the south” [10], Zhu Di sent the official book Guo Qin, Longping Hou Zhang Xin and others, led 300,000 soldiers, and repaired the Wudang mountain palace, which cost up to Thousands of dollars. The imperial decree granted Wudang Mountain, so the Dragon and Tiger, Wudang, Huashan, Jiuhua, Maoshan, Luofu mountains, Taoism flourished. [10].

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