Chapter 254: The Chaotic Taoist Deity System

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Protestantism has a history of more than 200 years since Morrison came to China in 1807.

After the reform and opening up, with the implementation of religious policies and social and economic development, Chinese Christianity not only revived rapidly, but also developed with attention, and became a common concern in the cultural, ideological, academic and political circles in China.

It can be said that with the decline of Taoism and Buddhism, foreign Christianity became a sacred religion in the eyes of the people, and now, the Asian region has also become one of the fastest growing places for Christians.

Ye Xiang wanted to wrestle with such a religion, and that was Alexander's.

In fact, Ye Xiang felt that a big reason why Taoism could not confront Buddhism and even Christianity was that the Taoist spiritual system was too chaotic.

From the ancient Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the present, all generations have emperors worship the heavens, but the heavens enshrined at that time purely refer to the heavens of nature, that is, "Cangtian" and "Haotian". Similar to the Great Dao, it is the master of all things in the universe and the origin of the growth and cultivation of all things, so you must not respect the heavens and fear your life, follow the heavens, and at the same time be the highest god of Confucian sacrifice!

But in many dynasties, there were emperors or Taoists who wanted to replace the ancient gods with personified gods.

In Taoism, gods are divided into innate true saints and acquired gods.

In Taoism, the innate true saint is only the embodiment of a certain aspect of the Tao, regardless of size.

The acquired god is what we generally call God, but it depends on people to achieve it.

There is no god in this world, and only after death. If you can get believers to worship your faith, you can become a god. But the best way is to get the recognition of the imperial court, because if you don't get the recognition of the imperial court, even if you have a shrine, then it is against the way of heaven, only by obtaining the power of the Son of Heaven to worship, and getting the recognition of the dragon qi of the Son of Heaven, can you jump to the great god and god!

The Ming Dynasty believed in Taoism, the Qing Dynasty enshrined Buddhism, the Song Dynasty believed in Taoism, and the Ming Dynasty did not go to court for 20 years during the Jiajing period, just to cultivate the Tao, and in the Qing Dynasty, the Shunzhi Emperor was even ordained by Mao Xisen and converted to the Buddha, which was a dispute over Taoism.

During the period of Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhenzong retreated from the enemy due to the alliance of Tanyuan, and missed the best opportunity to defeat the Liao, and since then it has become a heart disease. The so-called: the alliance under the city, the shame of "Spring and Autumn". There is nothing more shameful than the act of Lanyuan, and the alliance under the city with the respect of ten thousand vehicles!

So Song Zhenzong has always wanted to get back the face he lost, but unfortunately he didn't have the courage to fight with Liao on the battlefield again, so under Wang Qinruo's prodding, he made the matter of the Heavenly Divine Book, and even went to seal Mount Tai!

Song Zhenzong's move was to introduce one of the ancestors of the Zhao family as a righteous god, that is, Zhao Xuanlang, the ancestor of the Song Dynasty.

The name Zhao Xuanlang is unfamiliar to everyone, but about Zhao Xuanlang is in a folk legend.

And what Song Zhenzong wants to put his ancestor on is the Jade Emperor.

Before the Jade Emperor, Huaxia has always recognized Haotian God as the supreme master, which can be seen from Yin Shang to the Qing Dynasty, but Song Zhenzong, an emperor, can be a god indiscriminately, which is enough to show the chaos of the Taoist god system.

And what is the most important thing in a sect, the first is the doctrine, and the second is the spiritual system.

Without doctrine, there is no preaching, and without a system of gods, there is no clear arrangement of doctrines.

Therefore, the earliest sages of the Daomen, just like Tao Gong Hongjing's generation, realized this problem, and this is the purpose of making the true spiritual position karma map.

However, Tao Gong Hongjing's true spiritual position karma map was arranged too early, and there were too many private goods mixed in it, so future generations were not very convinced.

And the confusion of the spiritual system has also led to the chaos of Taoism, if there is no strong Taoist person to stand up and unify the entire spiritual system, then Taoism wants to preach in the world, it can be said that it is very difficult.

Therefore, what Ye wants to do is to integrate Taoism, organize the Taoist spiritual system, and then publish the teachings of Taoism, and then go to preach.

It is already difficult to integrate Taoism, let alone organize the Taoist deity system.

Each sect of Taoism has its own sect of gods, such as the Sanmao Zhenjun of Maoshan Mountain, Zhang Tianshi of Longhu Mountain, the Zhenwu Emperor of Wudang Mountain, etc., and there are many sects like this in China, and the immortals in Chinese history are even more Confucian stars, so the entire immortal system will be extremely chaotic.

It is said that there are 8 million gods in the places where the RB fart is bigger, and there seem to be 30 million gods in India! Although there is no such perversion in Huaxia, it is said that there can be up to 3,600 gods, and it is really a very arduous project to arrange the seats of the 3,600 gods.

Especially in the case of a polytheistic system like Huaxia, those god systems are even more complicated. Even the myths themselves are contradictory, this is not a problem of the Chinese mythology, but as long as the civilization of the gods has such a problem.

To sort out the entire system of gods and spirits and convince people is really an extremely difficult project.

Thinking about Ye Xiang, he feels a headache, and if he wants to preach, he can't help but do it, otherwise not to mention the suspicions of those people in foreign countries, even those so-called experts and professors in China will come out to fight fakes.

It's like the source of Taoism.

Almost all Taoist classics explain it in this way, mixed Yuan is congenital and one qi, evolved into the Qi of Xuanbai Xuanbai, and was born as a moral Tianzun, and Laojun is also. Then the evolution asks the red mixed cave to be too elementless and green, which is the origin of the Tianzun. The three evolved into the Qi of Mixed Tai Yuanxuan Huang. This is one gas and three clears. Taiqing Realm Big Red Sky, Jade Qing Realm Qingwei Heaven, Shangqing Realm Yu Yu Heaven.

This is Taiqing, Yuqing, Shangqing, these three represent the three major sects of Taoism, namely the Heavenly Master Dao who worships Laojun, the Shangqing faction that worships the Yuan Shi Tianzun, and the Lingbao faction that worships Taishang Daozun (Lingbao Tianzun).

These three major schools were all founded in the late Han Dynasty, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and almost all the Taoist schools in later generations came from these three schools.

The lack of rigor in Taoist theory is here, and it is obviously a unified theory. was originally the most important, but it was also made a mess by later generations.

For example, the great god worshiped by the Shangqing faction in Maoshan is Yuan Shi Tianzun, called Shangqing.

The scriptures of the Shangqing school say that there are three realms in the heavens: Yuqing, Taiqing, and Shangqing, and those who take refuge in the Shangqing school and practice the Tao can ascend to the 'Shangqing', which is higher than the 'Taiqing' of the Heavenly Master's Dao. That is, to set the great god Yuan Shi Tianzun created by the Shangqing faction above Laojun. (To be continued.) )