Chapter Ninety-Seven: Asking Qingcheng Mountain 1
After seeing the cute giant pandas, Lu Zheng and his entourage traveled all the way west to Qingcheng Mountain, one of the famous mountains of the Four Great Avenues.
According to legend, Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor traversed the five mountains, and sealed Qingcheng Mountain as "the five mountains of Zhangren", so it is also called Zhangren Mountain.
In the Song Dynasty, Zhang Junfang's "Seven Signatures of the Cloud Pipe" volume 79, during the period of the Yellow Emperor, the Yellow Emperor was always unable to win when fighting with the northern Chiyou, so he came to Qingcheng Mountain to ask the immortal Ning Feng for advice.
Ning Feng taught the Yellow Emperor to use the dragon to fly, and later, the Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou and unified the Chinese nation.
In order to express his gratitude to the immortal Ning Feng, the Yellow Emperor Feng Ning was named the Zhangren of Wuyue, and the Qingcheng Mountain where he lived was also called "Zhangren Mountain".
The ancients believed that "Qingdu and Ziwei are the places where the Emperor of Heaven lives", that is, where the gods live, so they are named "Qingcheng Mountain".
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a turf dispute between Buddhism and Taoism on the Qingcheng Mountain, and later Tang Xuanzong issued an edict to "return the Taoist view, and the temple is outside the mountain". In the edict, the word "Qing" in Qingcheng Mountain was written as the word "Qing" next to the water, and since then "Qingcheng Mountain" has been renamed "Qingcheng Mountain".
Regarding this incident, the edict of the Tang tablet can be seen on the mountain that is still well preserved.
Since Qingcheng Mountain is an immortal capital, of course, immortals are indispensable. The people who have cultivated here to become immortals have been endless.
Zhang Ling in the Eastern Han Dynasty first practiced in seclusion in Heming Mountain, and then met Taishang Laojun to preach and attain Taoism.
Heming Mountain is connected with Qingcheng Mountain, Zhang Ling came to Qingcheng Mountain to preach, during which he went to Songshan Mountain, and finally became an immortal, and was named Zhang Tianshi.
After Zhang Ling, from the end of the Han Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, those who came to Qingcheng Mountain to cultivate the Tao included Li A, Chen Xun, Fan Changsheng, Yang Chaoyuan and others.
Lee, it is said that he lived for a long time, but he did not see old age.
During the reign of Wu Sunquan, he often begged on the streets of Furong City, and once he begged for something, he immediately gave it to the poor.
He leaves Seremban every night and returns in the morning, and people don't know where he lives.
If people want to ask Li Ah something, Li Ah never answers directly, but just look closely at his expression and know the answer. If there is joy on Li A's face, then the thing asked must be auspicious; if Li A's face is sad and miserable, then the thing asked must be dangerous; if Li Ah has a smile on his face, it must be a happy thing; if Li Ah sighs softly, then there must be something that makes people deeply worried.
People asked Li A about the good luck and evil in this way, and they tried it repeatedly. A man named Gu Qiang felt that Li A was definitely not a mortal, so he often took care of Li A and followed Li A home, only then did he know that Li A lived in Qingcheng Mountain.
When Gu Qiang was eighteen years old, he saw Li A in his fifties, and when Gu Qiang was in his eighties, Li A was still fifty years old, and he hadn't changed at all.
Later, Li A said that the gods of Kunlun Mountain called him to go immediately, so Li A entered Kunlun Mountain and never came back.
After Li A, Chen Xun entered Qingcheng Mountain to cultivate and attain Taoism.
Yin Changsheng of the Han Dynasty followed the immortal Ma Mingsheng to practice in Wudang Mountain, and later attained Taoism in Qingcheng Mountain, and later became an immortal.
In the Jin Dynasty, the most famous Taoist priest in Qingcheng Mountain was Fan Changsheng, and later became an immortal here.
Zhao Yu and his brother Zhao Mian of the Sui Dynasty both lived in seclusion in Qingcheng Mountain, practicing with the Taoist priest Li Jue.
Emperor Yang of Sui knew his virtue and recruited him to become a leader. Zhao Yu couldn't resign, so he had to be appointed as the Taishou of Jiazhou.
During his tenure, he once went into the water to slay the dragon, and people believed that he was a god.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Zhao Yu disappeared again, not knowing what to do.
Tang Dynasty Taoist priests Wang Ke, Xue Chang, Liu Wuming and others all cultivated in Qingcheng Mountain.
It is worth mentioning that Du Guangting, a cultivator in the late Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty, practiced in Baiyunxi in Qingcheng Mountain for many years, and also wrote five volumes of "The Legend of Immortal Feelings", six volumes of "Yongcheng Collection of Immortals", and one volume of "The Legend of the Famous Mountains of Dongtian Blessed Land", which left precious materials such as ancient Chinese immortals and cultivation stories for future generations.
The more well-known monks in the Song Dynasty include Huangfu Shi'an, Gu Zangyong, Zhang Sui, Xu Wuji, etc., all of whom have miracles.
During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, there were relatively few people who cultivated in Qingcheng Mountain.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, due to the war, most of the Taoist priests in Qingcheng Mountain fled.
Later, Taoist priests from Wudang Mountain came to Qingcheng Mountain to practice, and the more famous one was Chen Qingjue.
In the early days, most of the mountain monks lived in caves, or built huts next to the caves, "placed earthen altars and wore grass huts".
In the Jin Dynasty, Qingcheng Mountain began to build a palace view, including the cave sky view, the Shangqing Palace, the Emperor view, the Biluo view (later named the Eternal Life Palace) and so on. The current Laojun Palace, the main hall of the Shangqing Palace, has the statues of Taishang Laojun, Chunyang Patriarch and Zhang Sanfeng.
The base of the Laojun Palace is 400 square meters wide and has a total of six floors. The upper circle below, meaning the heaven is round and the place is round; there are eight corners on the layer to show the eight trigrams; the appearance is in the shape of a tower, and the top is connected with three round treasures, which means to show the three talents of heaven, earth and man. Its left side hall is dedicated to Confucius and Guan Yu, there is Magu Pond in the lower left of the hall, the pond water does not dry up all year round, it is said to be the place where the immortal Magu baths Dan. Not far behind the palace, it is the first peak of Qingcheng, Pengzu Peak, there is an echo pavilion, climb a high call, all mountains respond.
During the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Song Dynasty, there were a large number of new palaces in Qingcheng Mountain.
In the Sui Dynasty, there were Changdao Temple, etc., and in the Tang Dynasty, there were Jianfu Palace, Jinhua Palace, Chong Miaoguan, Xuandu Temple, Futang Temple, etc.
Chang Taoist Temple is also known as the Heavenly Master Cave, it is said that Zhang Ling was here in that year to "preach the Mao". There are also the Yellow Emperor Temple and the Three Emperors Hall in the temple, and the palace enshrines Fuxi, Shennong, and the Yellow Emperor.
There is a cave on the top of the mixed yuan after the view, which is said to be the place where Zhang Ling once cultivated, commonly known as the Heavenly Master Cave.
There are three island stones in the east of the Heavenly Master Cave, and the huge stone stands with two cracks on it.
Folklore, when Zhang Tianshi subjugated the demon, he saw this stone blocking the way, so he drew his sword and split it, split it into three pieces, and the stone was also engraved with the word "subjugation of demons". There is a pen throwing groove on the west side of Tianshi Cave, this is a deep valley of more than 60 meters, folklore is Zhang Tianshi when he subdues demons, he makes a talisman and throws a pen.
"The True Form of the Five Mountains" has clouds: "There is an oath stone on the side of the mountain, the heavenly master Zhang Daoling and the ghost soldiers are swearing, the mountain is painted with a red brush, and the green cliff is unique." Today's inspection place, the stone and Dan color, more than 20 zhang wide, six or seven zhang deep, look at it. ”
According to Xu Yu of the Qing Dynasty, "Qingcheng Mountain Jinhua Palace Record", Jinhua Palace was originally rebuilt from the Jin Dynasty on the Emperor View (a Xuanzhen Temple), Tang Ruizong's daughter Yuzhen and Princess Jinhua lived here to cultivate.
During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, in addition to the reconstruction of the Yuanming Palace and the Shangyuan Palace during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the palaces that had been built in the past lacked maintenance in the Ming Dynasty.
In the Qing Dynasty, it was successively rebuilt and repaired the Changdao Temple, the Changsheng Temple, the Patriarch's Hall (also known as the Dongtian Temple), the Shangqing Palace, the Jianfu Palace, etc. Among them, the long couplet of 394 characters hanging on the pillar in the Jianfu Palace is a must for Qingcheng.
The Patriarch Hall is dedicated to Emperor Zhenwu and Zhang Sanfeng. There are historic sites such as bathing pill wells and reading platforms in the hall. Yudanjing is the seventh year of Tang Tianbao (748), the Taoist Xue Changju alchemy left the relics.
Li Shunxian praised Qingcheng Mountain in the poem "Traveling in Qingcheng by Car":
Because of the eight horses on the fairy mountain, the dust is idle.
I am afraid that the west will chase the queen mother's banquet, but it will be difficult to get to the world.