Chapter 241: If the mountain is not high, there is an immortal
Such a wonderful spectacle, as well as legends, no matter what, Ye Chao witnessed it with his own eyes, and after hearing the tour guide's narration, he felt pleasing to the eye. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Ye Chao bowed a few times to the statue of the Zhenwu Emperor on the top of Wudang Jinding, the god of Wushan Mountain is very great, but the people who created the Zhenwu Emperor and built everything in Wudang Mountain are even greater.
The incident of Emperor Zhenwu fully illustrates that people need idols, and God is the idol of man.
The palace of Wudang Mountain, in addition to Taihe Palace, only the Five Dragons Palace can still interest Ye Chao.
According to legend, during the Tang Zhenguan period (627-649), Junzhou Taishou Yao Jian prayed for rain in Wudang Mountain, and saw five dragons flying down from the sky, that is, five dragons were built here.
The Song Dynasty changed its name to the concept of five dragons and Lingying. To the twenty-third year of the Yuan Dynasty (1286) changed to the five dragons and the palace, Yuan Renzong was given the big five dragons Lingying Wanshou Palace, the end of the Yuan Dynasty was destroyed in the fire.
In the eleventh year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1413), 850 temples and temples were rebuilt on the old site, and the amount of "Xingsheng Wulong Palace" was given, and most of them were destroyed after the Xinhai Revolution. Now only the palace gate, the red wall, the stele pavilion and the spring pool, the ancient well and so on.
The Five Dragons Palace sits in the west and faces the east, there is the red wall of nine bends and eighteen bends outside the palace gate, there is a stele pavilion in the north and south, there is the sun pool, the moon pool in front. The entrance to the palace is the Dragon and Tiger Palace. There are still clay statues of painted gods such as the green dragon and the white tiger that are more than one foot high, and there are nine heavy stone stones and nine platforms.
On the white marble Sumeru seat in the middle of the base of the Yuanjun Palace, there is a bronze gilt Xuantian Zhenwu God statue, which is 1.95 meters high, and it is the largest bronze statue of the true martial god in Wudang Mountain. In front of the Yuanjun Palace, there are heavenly pools and earth pools, and spring water spits out from the mouth of the stone dragon. Its left is the jade statue hall, and the "big five dragon Lingying Wanshou Palace Tablet" erected by the Yuan Dynasty still exists under the slope of the right mountain.
Climb the mountain from the left side of the palace gate, and you can see the god plum platform. There is a tombstone on the platform, and the stele pavilion is folded on the stone mountain in the south on the right, and then it is to the Qisheng platform.
From the south of the stage, that is, the chanting platform of the famous Taoist priest Chen Tuan in the early Song Dynasty, and the straight up is Ling Xuyan. Around the Five Dragons Palace, there are pineapples, five dragons, Qingyang peaks towering, flying cloud streams, white dragon cave flowing water and other wonders, the scenery is quiet and elegant.
There are Taoist priests practicing on Wudang Mountain, they do their own thing, they can practice in the palace, on the rocks, on the edge of the cliff, and even on the big trees can meditate and enlighten.
The appearance is very different, but what the specific realm is, it is not something that ordinary people can understand. Ye Chao swept it with his heart magic, and found that there were masters in Wudang Mountain who wanted to pay attention to him, so he collected his heart magic.
He didn't want to cause misunderstanding, in this famous mountain, there are really high-ranking people living in seclusion.
Those masters saw that Ye Chao had collected the magic trick, maybe they didn't find any threat, and slowly stopped pursuing it. However, Ye Chao knew that they had begun to be vigilant, and in this world, there were Taoist masters.
Ye Chao didn't use his heart magic to compete with people, and those Taoists didn't find him, which proved that his own heart magic was at least not inferior to them.
As a tourist, Ye Chao did not stay on the mountain to live, but went down to Wudang Mountain to find a comfortable hotel to live in.
Now the Wudang Mountain Scenic Area has formed a one-stop tourism service. Claimed to be, ask Wudang Mountain, health Taiji Lake......
Uh, in short, ask you can go up the mountain, ask the Taoist masters, of course, if they are willing to let you ask for advice, plus you have some Taoism, the problem is a little deep, it is better to be a fellow Taoist.
Otherwise, when you ask, you ask about things on the surface, the real Tao, if you ask, it is also a white way, and the Tao cannot be asked, you can only find it yourself, and you can cultivate it.
"The Tao is the way, the very way", the way that can be said is not the "common way". The way of the Tao is the way it is.
I can't say it, if you ask, you can only ask about the flowers in the water and the moon in the mirror.
The flower in the water is a flower, but not a real flower, and the moon in the mirror is a moon, but not a real moon.
Health Taiji Lake, uh, is a variety of health preservation methods, Ye Chao went to experience it, many of them are quite "professional", but they are only Taoist health preservation methods, and they cannot be truly transmitted. Uh, in the name of Wudang to be precise......
However, this is also normal, wouldn't it be even more strange if the health under the mountain could be as good as the true legend of Wudang Mountain?
You must know that even if it is a disciple on Wudang Mountain, there are very few who have obtained the true transmission, and most of them are just beginners and have not entered the Tao.
However, Wudang Mountain has indeed driven the surrounding travel industry.
After staying for one night, Ye Chao went up to Wudang Mountain again the next day, this time, he didn't go up with the tour guide, but went up with a backpack filled with dry food and water.
This time, he is not going to those tourist attractions, but to some places that are off the beaten track. Those places are very remote and dangerous, not to mention the dense wattles, and there are many poisonous snakes and beasts.
If people tell you that there are no poisonous snakes and beasts in Wudang Mountain these days, will you believe it?
Yes, there are no poisonous snakes and beasts in big cities, but it would be wrong to say that there are no tourist holy places like Wudang Mountain. It should be said that it is a popular tourist attraction, because some people have maintained it for a long time, and it is true that there are no poisonous snakes and beasts.
Ye Chao acted alone, and when he met a Taoist collecting medicine along the way, or a Taoist practicing at a dangerous cliff or by a rock, they would kindly remind him that it was dangerous here, and it was best not to come here if it was for fun.
Wudang Mountain is rich in medicinal plants, and there are more than 400 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica".
According to the results of the census of medicinal plants in 1985, it is known that there are 617 kinds of medicinal materials in the whole mountain, so Wudang Mountain is known as the "natural medicine storehouse". Medicinal plants include mandala flowers, golden hairpins, Wang Longzhi, monkey knots, nine fairies, gastrodia, Tianqi and other precious medicinal materials.
They didn't drive people away because they were Taoists from Wudang Mountain, which made Ye Chao very favorable. Ye Chao first thanked the Taoist elders for their kindness, saying that he wanted to visit Wudang Mountain, and slightly revealed the martial arts he learned from Tang Ru.
Those Taoists looked quite clever at first glance, and saw that there was no problem in self-preservation, so they nodded and acquiesced to him to appreciate the scenery of Wudang Mountain.
Wudang is a holy place of Taoism, and seekers come to feel it, asking, seeking the Tao and even cultivating the Tao, as a cultivator, they will not stop it. As long as you don't sabotage, the Taoist leaders of Wudang welcome you to Wudang to realize the Tao, the Tao is not anyone's family, it belongs to all catechumens.
In fact, Wudang is most famous not for its Tao, but for its martial arts.
Wudang is the birthplace of Taijiao. All schools of Tai Chi are subjected to Tai Chi and began with Zhang Sanfeng, a real person in Wudang.
It is said that the original Dajiquan is the thirteen styles of Tai Chi in Wudang.
Wudang martial arts is a Han martial arts school with a long history and profound profoundness. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Wudang Taoist Zhang Sanfeng collected his masterpiece and was respected as the founder of Wudang martial arts.
In addition to Taijiquan, Wudang also has Taiji Sword.
Wudang Sanfeng Taiji Sword and Taijiquan are the same style, Wudang patriarch Zhang Sanfeng created Taijiquan and then absorbed the longevity of the hundred swordsmanship and the Taoist self-cultivation method to create the Taiji Sword.
Wudang Sanfeng Taiji Sword absorbs Taoist cultural thoughts, and has the Taoist qigong method of practicing refinement and qi, practicing qi and transforming spirits, practicing gods and returning voids, and returning voids to Taoism, and has the functions of strengthening the body, self-defense, and prolonging life, which is a collection of martial arts and self-cultivation.
This is not much to say, since ancient times, there is Shaolin boxing, Wudang sword saying, you can see the achievements of Wudang martial arts.
About Zhang Sanfeng, the founder of the Wudang faction, there is another magical legend:
According to legend, during the Ming Dynasty, there was a Taoist priest in Liaodong, named Zhang Sanfeng, who went to the south city of Henan to refine the true palace and became a monk.
Zhang Sanfeng was poor and dirty, he didn't wash his face in the morning and his feet in the evening, he didn't change his clothes all year round, and he didn't dry the quilt at the end of two years.
Don't look sloppy Zhang Sloppy, but he has a good martial arts, and he can play big tricks (acrobatics) and small tricks (magic). Speaking and doing things, crazy and crazy, it seems to be true but not true, it seems to be false and not false, so that people can't figure it out.
Therefore, some people call Zhang Sanfeng Zhang Sancrazy, and some people say that the sloppy Zhang is a half-immortal body. In the winter of that year, the head of the Lianzhen Palace was sick, and the big and small Taoist priests all went to the master's bed to say hello, and the sloppy Zhang also came.
The master looked down on him, turned over and twisted his face into the bed, and asked sloppily: "Master, master, are you better?"
The master only pretended to be asleep, and shouted loudly in a sloppy manner: "Master, master, are you better?" He shouted again and again, and the master became impatient, and "hummed" with his mouth, which means: Go away!
"Wow, the master wants to eat 'hum (apricot)' (Junzhou dialect, 'hum' and 'apricot' have the same sound) I'll go up the mountain and pick it for you. Sloppy Zhang said as he walked out of the temple gate.
At this time, the snow fell one after another, the north wind was blowing, and he couldn't see anything clearly all over the mountains, so he fooled around in the snow for a while, and really picked back two yellow apricots, and the apricot handles still had two green silk leaves. When the head of the house saw the apricots, he was half cured, and when he ate the apricots, he was all cured.
Since then, everyone has admired Zhang Sanfeng's Taoism.
A few days later, the sloppy Zhang said to the master: "Emperor Yongle is repairing Wudang Mountain, and I am going to help the Zhenwu Patriarch." ”
The master said, "You have cured my illness, and I am reluctant to let you go." ”
"I'll take off your straw sandals, and when you think of me, you'll come to me in straw sandals. Sloppy Zhang said, put the straw sandals in the incense burner on the god's table.
The next day, the Taoist priest came to offer incense, and saw a pair of dirty and smelly rotten straw sandals in the incense burner, so she told the master. When the house came to see, the smell was unpleasant, and he stretched out his hand and pulled it out and fell into the yard, and the rotten straw shoes turned into a pair of snow-white pigeons, which flew into the sky and landed on the clouds.
The head of the house regretted it very much, and shouted loudly: "Sloppy and playing tricks again, this turned out to be a pair of 'cloud-stepping boots'!"
Regarding Zhang Sanfeng, Zhu Shifeng, a great Confucian in the Qing Dynasty, commented on Zhang Sanfeng and said that there are countless practitioners in ancient and modern times, and Zhang Sanfeng, the creator of heaven and earth.
The creator of heaven and earth has a high evaluation that is incomparable.
In addition, the rulers of China held Zhang Sanfeng in high esteem, and many emperors of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties also sought out him, hoping to obtain his true biography.
Zhang Sanfeng's last appearance is recorded in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty and Lu Dongbin appeared in Mount Emei to guide the cultivation of a Taoist priest named Li Hanxu, who later founded the Western School of Cultivation Theory.
Since then, no one in the world has ever seen Zhang Sanfeng's trace.
Most of the reason why Ye Chao came to Wudang was because he admired Zhang Sanfeng's Taoism.
Perhaps, people in the world do not believe in immortals, nor do they believe in ghosts, but the world is really full of wonders.
Now, science dominates the earth and leads the way forward for civilization, but science is not omnipotent, and there are things it cannot explain. The fairy and ghost say that there is nothingness, but no one can prove that he does not exist.