Chapter 87: Pilot, Xuanzhen View

After reading the Taixue Hall, Wang Meng turned to the northwest corner of Wuchuan Town, where there was a Taoist temple called "Xuanzhen Temple".

Since the completion of this Xuanzhen Temple, it has absorbed a part of the congregation, taught the people the way of doing things "according to nature", and also taught some health preservation methods for people to understand.

Of course, there are also sharp-eyed people who come to those young and beautiful little Taoist girls in the Taoist temple, trying to take advantage of them......

But in the end, these people were beaten and kicked out, and they never dared to come here again.

As for why, it is naturally because from the Dao Elder to the Dao Gu, and even a handyman who runs errands, all have the strength to lock the five layers of the ground, and naturally not many people dare to have such and such obscene ideas.

Ling Hao was actually preparing to use the Taoist thought of this world to artificially create a Taoist sect in advance.

As for why it was chosen to be Taoism, the main reason is because it is a native religion of China, with "Tao" as the highest faith.

In terms of the concept of ghost and god worship in ancient China, Taoism is based on the ideas of Huang and Lao Taoism, and inherits the evolution of immortal magic since the Warring States period. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a large number of Taoist organizations appeared, including the Taiping Dao and the Wudou Rice Dao. Patriarch Zhang Daoling officially founded the Order, which has a history of 1,800 years. Taoism is a polytheistic worship, and the gods and immortals are the personification of the Tao's belief in the "Tao".

Generally speaking, Taoism originated from Fang Xian Dao, which is a polytheistic religion that worships many gods, and its main purpose is to pursue immortality, become immortals, and help the world and save people. It occupies an important position in the traditional culture of ancient China, and also has a positive development position in the modern world of later generations.

Although Taoism has been one of the hundred schools of thought since the Warring States period, it has always been unpopular because it does not have a systematic religious system.

Taoism deified the original moral philosophers. It was not until the late Han Dynasty that the order was produced, and the Heavenly Master of Yizhou (present-day Sichuan) worshipped Lao Tzu as Taishang Laojun. By the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the religious form of Taoism was gradually perfected.

Laozi Li Er (Taishang Laojun) is the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty honored Laozi as the Emperor Taishang Xuanyuan, the Holy Ancestor of Dao Yuanque.

Taoism regards "Tao" as the highest belief and believes that "Tao" is the origin of all things. In traditional Chinese culture, Taoism is a dominant theoretical doctrine and method of seeking to become an immortal along with Confucianism and Buddhism.

Taoism, as defined by later academic circles, refers to the inheritance of most religious concepts and practice methods such as Fang Xian Dao, Huang Lao Dao and folk belief in heavenly gods on the basis of ancient religious beliefs in Shenzhou, and gradually formed with "Tao" as the highest belief. Mainly to serve Taishang Laojun as the sect leader, and to Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" and other classics for the cultivation of immortal realm classics non-cultivation of Allah to the classics, the pursuit of cultivation to become a god of a Chinese religion, the main methods of Taoism to become immortals or gods can be roughly summarized into five kinds, taking immortal medicine, outer pills, etc., refining qi and guiding, inner dan cultivation, and through Taoist rituals and their own magic cultivation and other rituals to merit to become immortals, common later immortals are mostly inner dan cultivation and merit to become gods and Taoist practitioners.

Lao Tzu Li Er regarded the "Tao" as the ontology of the universe and the law of all things, and was a mysterious existence that transcended time and space, and established the theological theory system of Taoism based on the "Tao"; Paying attention to cultivation and health preservation, Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi successively put forward the cultivation methods of quiet and inaction, seeing the plain and embracing simplicity, and forgetting to keep the first, which were inherited and carried forward by the disciples.

In the middle of the Warring States Period, the Qi State gradually began to flourish Huang Lao Taoism, which respected the Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu, and the rulers of the early Western Han Dynasty also admired the Huang Lao Zhixue who ruled by doing nothing, creating a prosperous era of "the rule of Wenjing".

By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the situation of a hundred schools of thought respecting Confucianism and a hundred schools of thought contending became a thing of the past, and the Huang Lao doctrine gradually went to the people, and merged with Fang Xian Dao to become the Huang Lao Dao, and gradually changed from political beliefs to religious groups. Let's take a book

The Confucianism of Confucius and Mencius is compatible with Taoism and constitutes the main body of religious ethics and morality; the ideas and contents of the Mohist family, such as respecting heaven and ghosts, loving and helping each other, and science and technology, are covered by Taoism; the Book of Changes is the basic classic of Taoist priests, and the theory of Yi Xuexue penetrates into all aspects of theology and philosophy, Fu Gong Dan Taoism, and Zhai Jiao rituals; and the theory of yin and yang and five elements of the pre-Qin Taoist Zou Yan is also an important part of Taoist theory.

During the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, the "Taiping Sutra" of Huang Lao Taoism preached the gasification of heaven and earth, the unity of heaven and man, the bearing of the burden of heaven, and the happiness of life, with the goal of "Taiping World". Wei Boyang's "Zhou Yi Shen Tong Deed" of the Eastern Han Dynasty Danding Taoist School combined Yi Xue, Huang Lao, and Huo Hou to summarize and develop the Taoist health alchemy.

In the Wei and Jin dynasties, Taoism gradually divided into the scholar Danding Taoism and the folk Fushui Taoism. Ge Hong, a Taoist from Maoshan, combined the Taoist immortal magic with the Confucian Gangchang Mingjiao to build a set of immortal system, which laid a theoretical foundation for the scholar Danding Taoism. The prevalence of Lao Zhuang metaphysics promoted the development of Taoist theory.

In 364 A.D., the Shangqing patriarch Yang Xide Nanyue's wife Wei Huacun awarded the "Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing" and other heavenly books and jade books to inherit the Shangqing school; Popular Taoism was still spread among the people, and the Wudou Rice Dao continued to develop in the Bashu region, and the uprising of the displaced people led by Li Teh and Li Xiong was supported by Fan Changsheng, the leader of the Heavenly Master Dao, and the Heavenly Master Tao of Bojiadao, Li Jiadao, and Du Zigong was popular in the Jiangnan region.

During the period of Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the first celestial master recognized by the emperor in feudal history - Kou Qianzhi, said that he was ordered by the Taishang Laojun to remove the "three pseudo-laws" (Zhang Ling, Zhang Heng, Zhang Lu) and the principle of etiquette to transform Taoism in the Northern Dynasty, and Taoism became the state religion of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The reforms of Kou Qianzhi and Lu Xiujing made the Taoist canons and precepts, fasting and Jiao rituals basically formalized, and various rules and regulations were comprehensively systematized. During the Liang period of the Southern Dynasty, Tao Hongjing, the great master of Maoshan, continued to enrich the Taoist immortal doctrine and cultivation theory, constructed the Taoist immortal lineage, and broadened the Maoshan Shangqing School, making it an orthodox Taoist sect that has been inherited to this day......

But Ling Hao also knew that Taoism was gradually suppressed by Confucianism and Buddhism in history because of the many factions and discord.

What's more, there are still many careerists in history who have committed rebellion under the banner of Taoism, such as Zhang Jiao, the leader of Taiping Dao in the late Han Dynasty, Sun Tai and Sun En of Wudou Midao, etc., all of whom pretended to be gods and ghosts under the banner of Taoism and bewitched people's hearts.

This further magnifies the disadvantages of Taoism, so that for the ancient emperors, the reason why Taoism still existed was because Taoism's health preservation and alchemy techniques were extremely developed, which could make them "immortal and eternal youth"......

However, Ling Hao felt that Taoism still needed to be developed, but the doctrine, religious structure, and religious theme had to be changed, and it was best not to have anything to do with the politics of the Seven Kingdoms.

Let Taoism remain in a category that does not deviate from the doctrine of the hundred schools of thought, and become an accessory of Taoist theory, which can be regarded as within the controllable range.

Secondly, it's better to remove this messy "method" of alchemy or something, it's not that Ling Hao doesn't want to "live forever", he just knows very well that Taoist methods can only maintain health, not eternal life.

Although it can't make people "immortal", but the Taoist health method can make people live longer, ordinary people listen to the lectures of Taoism, and there is absolutely no problem in living sixty or seventy years old, seventy or eighty years old.

This is the issue that Ling Hao emphasized, and sure enough, sure enough, after this slogan was played, it immediately caused a burst of repercussions, and some people even took the initiative to join the Taoist temple to spread the "foundation of morality".

Of course, this Taoism artificially founded by Ling Hao is still only in the initial stage, and it is a pilot at best, but even if it is only a pilot, it is enough to make these residents of Wuchuan Town feel new and curious.

However, as soon as I heard that after joining the Taoist temple, I had to abstain from sex, which made many people retreat.

There are also some people who know that all the men and women in this temple are masters, and they came to challenge, but they all failed without exception.

Because the Taoist leader of Xuanzhen Temple is, Pei Min.