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1. The Nine Heavens Xuannu

Nine Heavens Xuannu: That is, Zhongtiao Xuannu, commonly known as Jiutian Niangniang, Jiutian Xuanmu Tianzun, also known as Jiutian Girl, Xuannu, and Yuannu. It is the true god of ancient China, and the god of war and beauty in Taoist beliefs. The origins of its beliefs can be traced back to pre-Qin periods. Referred to as Xuannu, according to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Book of Songs" and other documents, and the historian Sun Shao's research to clarify the identity of the ancient gods. Si Bing, the main soldier to kill, the teacher of the Yellow Emperor, awarded the Yellow Emperor the soldier rune sword, the number of Qimen, and the subduing of Chiyou, so later generations also thought that she was the god of war.

The Nine Heavens Xuannu and Mazu are both immortals of the Queen Mother of the West, one of them guides the evolution of the situation in Shenzhou at a critical time, and the other accumulates the power of faith and merit to help the Queen Mother of the West maintain the Nine Heavens Enchantment of Shenzhou.

1. The Nine Heavens Xuannu

Nine Heavens Xuannu: That is, Zhongtiao Xuannu, commonly known as Jiutian Niangniang, Jiutian Xuanmu Tianzun, also known as Jiutian Girl, Xuannu, and Yuannu. It is the true god of ancient China, and the god of war and beauty in Taoist beliefs. The origins of its beliefs can be traced back to pre-Qin periods. Referred to as Xuannu, according to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Book of Songs" and other documents, and the historian Sun Shao's research to clarify the identity of the ancient gods. Si Bing, the main soldier to kill, the teacher of the Yellow Emperor, awarded the Yellow Emperor the soldier rune sword, the number of Qimen, and the subduing of Chiyou, so later generations also thought that she was the god of war.

She was originally a goddess in ancient Chinese mythology, and was later absorbed into the immortal system by Taoism.

Folklore has it that she is a goddess with boundless powers. Because of her meritorious work in eliminating violence and calming the people, the Jade Emperor named her the Nine Heavens Xuannu and the Nine Heavens Holy Mother. Although her position in folklore beliefs is not prominent, she is a god of justice. It often appears in classical novels, and is a fairy who helps heroes eradicate evil and violence, such as the forty-first chapter of "Water Margin", which writes that Song Jiang was chased by officers and soldiers, hid in the Nine Heavens Xuannu Temple and was rescued, and received three volumes of military books from Xuannu. Therefore, her position among the Taoist immortals is very important. There are scriptures such as "The Nine Heavens Xuannu Salvation Sutra" and "The Nine Heavens Xuannu Healing Heart and Eliminating Sins" and other scriptures have been handed down to the world to educate the world.

1. Documentation

The Book of Songs. Shang Song. Xuanniao": Destiny Xuanniao. Descended to give birth to business, the house Yin Tumang, the ancient emperor ordered Wu Tang. The four sides of the positive domain.

Historical Records. Yin Benji": Yin Qi, the mother is called Jian Di, the daughter of the Youyu (song sound) clan, and the second concubine of the emperor Yu (ku four sounds). Threesome bath. I saw the bird fall its eggs. Jian Di swallowed it, because of the pregnancy and birth contract. The contract is long and Zuo Yu has merit in controlling the water. … Sealed in business.

In the Book of Songs, it is recorded that Xuanniao is the ancestor of the Yin merchants, which is a poem in which the descendants of the Yin Shang sacrifice their ancestors, which means that the Emperor of Heaven ordered the Xuanniao to give birth to the ancestor of the Shang "Qi" and established a powerful Shang dynasty. History records that after 500 years of development, the Yin Shang people have become a powerful country by the time they become a soup. In the end, Xia Jian was defeated and fled to Nanchao and died. The Shang Dynasty was established. In the "Historical Records" also said that the ancestor of Yin Shang "Qi" was his mother who ate Xuanniao eggs and was born pregnant, Qi is the ancestor of the Shang Dynasty, the son of Emperor Yu, and his mother is Jian Di, who helped Xia Yu to control the water, and was appointed as Situ by Emperor Shun, in charge of education, and lived in the commercial land. This is the origin of the Shang people's worship of the Xuanniao totem, and the Xuanniao was the ancestor of the Shang Dynasty.

Taoist scriptures "The True Immortal Body of the Past Ages. The Biography of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor said: The battle of Emperor Nai (the battle with Chiyou), but he did not win.... I dreamed that the Queen Mother of the West sent a Taoist, dressed in the clothes of the Xuanhu, and said to the emperor: Taiyi is in front, Tianyi is behind, and the winner wins, and the battle is defeated. The emperor looked up to the sky and sighed at the unattainable, thinking about it, feeling the fog in the sky, and three days and three nights. A woman descended from the sky, with a human head and a bird's body, and the emperor saw the head of the emperor, and then bowed down. The woman said, "My daughter is also in doubt."

"The Sacred Miracles of Wangwu Mountain in the Temple of Heaven" says: The Yellow Emperor in the first month of the first year, Jiazi, attended Wangwu Mountain, fasted for three days, climbed to the top, and prayed to God in Qionglin Terrace.... Then the Queen Mother descended to the Temple of Heaven..., the Queen Mother summoned the East China Sea Qingtongjun, summoned the Nine Heavens Xuannu, and gave the strategy of breaking the Chi You, and the Yellow Emperor killed the Chi You Yu Ji according to the order..., and the sea was safe.

"Seven Signatures of the Cloud. The Legend of the Nine Heavens Xuannu said: Xuannu descended, took the Danfeng, Yu Jingyun, served the clothes of the nine-colored emerald, gathered in front of the emperor (Yellow Emperor), the emperor worshiped again, and was ordered to say to the Xuannu: I use the teachings of the ether, if you have any doubts, the emperor said: Chi You are tyrannical, poison steaming Li..., want to win ten thousand battles and eliminate harm with people, but it's okay.

"Seven Signatures of the Cloud. The Biography of the Queen Mother of the West also said: The Queen Mother is a woman, the head of the bird body, and the emperor said: I am the Nine Heavens Xuannu, and I grant the emperor the strategy of Yin and Yang of the Three Palaces and Five Meanings, the technique of Taiyi Dunjia and Six Non Step Fighting, the machine of Yin Fu, the text of Lingbao Five Fu and Five Victories, and then Ke Chiyou.

"Seven Signatures of the Cloud. The Legend of the Nine Heavens Xuannu also said: The Nine Heavens Xuannu is the teacher of the Yellow Emperor and the disciple of Our Lady Yuanjun.

"The Yellow Emperor Jiuding Shendan Sutra. Volume 2 also says: The nine laws of the Dan are also covered by the Nine Heavenly Yuan Daojun Nine Directions. In ancient times, the real Wang Qiao, Chi Songzi, and the Yellow Emperor were subjected to Xuannu. The Xuannu is also a celestial maiden.

2. Legends

(1) Outstanding female military strategist

The Holy Mother of the Nine Heavens is the ancient Xuanniao, the head of the bird, born in the next deed by the mandate of heaven, Tang Yu is Situ, sealed in Shang, and the thirteenth generation of Taiyi is a soup, and the Shang Dynasty is established. According to historical records and myths and legends, she is a disciple of the Holy Mother of Xiling Yuanjun and a military advisor of the Yellow Emperor. In view of the "Book of Heaven" art of war that she created, she can be called the first outstanding female military strategist in ancient China.

(2) Ancient legends

Legend has it that in ancient times, the Yellow Emperor and Chi (sound idiot) You, fought in Zhuolu (now Zhuolu County, Hebei Province) nine battles without victory. Chi You's violence, he sacrificed a spell, so that three days and three nights of fog and darkness, so that the soldiers did not see the day, difficult to distinguish the direction of the mountains and rivers, trapped the Yellow Emperor under the Taishan. Seeing that the soldiers could not fight, the Yellow Emperor led the troops to retreat to the Taishan Mountain, and slept in a gloomy mood at night. The bereaved messenger of the Virgin of Xiling was given the Yellow Emperor by the Qiu of the Xuanhu to the Yellow Emperor and said: "Taiyi is in front, Tianyi is behind, and the winner wins, and the battle is defeated." "The rune bestowed by Our Lady of the West Spirit," is three inches wide, one foot long, green and jade, and Dan blood is the text. After the talisman was completed, Our Lady of the West Spirit ordered her disciple Jiutian Xuannu to teach the Yellow Emperor the strategy of yin and yang of the three palaces and five meanings. Taiyi Dunjia Liuren step fighting technique, Yin Fu machine, Lingbao five Fu five victories of the text". In order to defeat Chiyou. The Nine Heavens Xuannu made 80 cowhide giant drums for the Yellow Emperor, and then awarded the Yellow Emperor Tuce, the thing of the sword, for war preparation.

(3) "The Classic of Mountains and Seas. The Great Wilderness East Classic" records

According to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas. The Great Wilderness East Classic records that Kui Niu, as a mythical beast in ancient times, was born in Liubo Mountain in the East China Sea in ancient times, "its shape is like a cow, pale and hornless." One foot can walk, in and out of the water is wind and rain, and the eyes are like the sun and the moon. Its voice is like thunder, and its name is Kui. The Yellow Emperor killed him, took the skin to make a drum, and heard it for 500 miles. "The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon" contains: "The Yellow Emperor cut down Chiyou. Xuannu is the emperor's Kui cowhide drum with 80 sides. An earthquake of 500 miles, a continuous earthquake of 3,800 miles. "The Nine Heavens Xuannu ordered the sergeant to slaughter Kui Niu to make eighty war drums, so that the Yellow Emperor led the troops to fight with Chiyou in Zhongji after being assisted by the Nine Heavens Xuannu. When the Yellow Emperor put down the "Qimen Dunjia" array, he ordered the soldiers to use the bones of the thunder beast to hit the eighty-sided cowhide giant drum, and the drum sounded loudly for a while, and the blow shook five hundred miles. The continuous attack shook 3,008 miles, and I saw the entire battlefield shake the mountains. The sky swirled, shouting to kill Chong Xiaohan, which made the soldiers of Liangchiyou fascinated, rushed to kill Yuanmen, and fell like a mountain. "Chiyou copper-headed stone", that is, the stone is used as food, and can "fly in the air." But in the sound of the Kui Niu drum, "Nine blows stopped, especially if you can't go, you can kill it." Later, the Yellow Emperor punished Yu in Hanquan, (now southeast of Zhuolu County, Hebei Province), after this bloody battle, the world was decided.

(4) The legend of Qimen Dunjia

Legend has it that "Qimen Dunjia" had 4,320 rounds at the earliest, which gradually decreased to 1,080 rounds and 72 rounds in circulation, and then only 18 rounds remained. According to the "Taiping Guangji" volume 56; In the legends of the past dynasties, whenever the world is governed by chaos, sometimes it is taught by the Nine Heavens Xuannu, and sometimes it is performed by a Taoist master; For example, during the Warring States Period, Sun Bin obtained three volumes of the Book of Heaven from Guiguzi, eight doors of retreat, and six spiritual texts.

(5) The legend recorded in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is said that when Zhuge Liang led his troops into Sichuan, he drove his troops to take the chaotic stones, and laid down a stone formation on the Yubeipu beach near the mountain and river, which was called the Eight Formations; Zhuge Liang pressed Qimen Dunjia "rest, life, injury, Du, Jing, death, shock, and open." "Formation. Its array repeats eight gates, every hour of the day, and the changes are gratuitous. At dusk, when Lu Xun, the governor of Eastern Wu, strayed into the death gate of the eight formations, the wind was fierce in an instant, flying sand and stones, covering the sky and the earth, strange stones, chaya like a sword, horizontal sand and soil, overlapping like mountains, the sound of the river surging, like the sound of swords and drums, comparable to the momentum of 100,000 elite soldiers, when Lu Xun, the governor of Eastern Wu, was shocked to advance and retreat, and shouted: "My plan is also Zhuge in my country!" On the occasion, it was good that Zhuge Liang's old father-in-law, Huang Chengyan, did good deeds and came and went to the door of life in person, otherwise he would have died in the Eight Arrays. The great poet Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem: "The merit covers three parts of the country, the name becomes the eight arrays, the river does not turn, and the hatred is lost and swallowed by Wu." ”

(6) The legend of Xue Ingui sending troops to conquer Goryeo

Legend has it that Xue Rengui sent troops to conquer Goryeo, and also obtained five treasures from the Nine Heavens Xuannu, such as the White Tiger Whip, the Water and Fire Robe, the Heaven-Shaking Bow, the Cloud Piercing Arrow, and the Wordless Heavenly Book, so as to achieve a great victory in the Eastern Expedition. In "Water Margin", it is said that Song Jiang was chased by the head of Jiangzhou and fled to an ancient temple in Huandao Village, hid in the divine kitchen, and was searched several times. After getting out of danger with the help of God, a boy in Tsing Yi introduced him to the Nine Heavens Xuannu, who gave Song Jiang three volumes of the Book of Heaven and said: "Lord Song Xing, pass on the three volumes of the Book of Heaven, you can do the way for the heavens, be loyal to the Lord, serve the country and the people, go to the evil and return to the right, do not forget and do not leak." Legend has it that before Liu Bowen came out of the mountain, he also got four volumes of the Book of Heaven in the cave of Luoshan Mountain in Chuzhou, and then assisted Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world with the Book of Heaven, and his merit was the first. The legend of the Nine Heavens in history is mysterious, and she casts a mysterious halo on the good men and women of China. In Beijing, there are three temples that worship the Virgin Mary of the Nine Heavens, its temples spread all over the country, become the goddess of incense in the past dynasties, all the people worship and pray for peace and blessings, the name of the Nine Heavens Xuannu, first seen in the Weishu of the Han Dynasty.

(7) Recorded in "Arowana River Map".

"Dragon Fish River Map" cloud: "Before the regency of the Yellow Emperor, there were eighty-one Chiyou brothers, and beasts and human languages, copper heads and iron foreheads, eating sand and stones, building soldiers and swords and halberds, and crossbows, which vibrated the world. …… The Yellow Emperor was benevolent and righteous, and could not prohibit Chi You, so he was defeated, but looked up to the sky and sighed. Heaven sent Xuannu to grant the Yellow Emperor soldiers a rune to subdue Chiyou. He also said: "Emperor Va, the Queen Mother of the West of Sleep, the Taoist of the Taoist, was given by the Xuanhu Qiu, and said: 'Taiyi is in front, Tianyi is in the back, the river is out of the Fuxin, and the battle is restrained.'" Yellow Emperor ,...... The altar was set up to sacrifice to the ether, and there was a turtle title charm out of the water, and it was placed in the altar and gone. The Yellow Emperor worshiped the head of the talisman again, and regarded it as a talisman obtained from a dream. Three inches wide, one foot wide. So the Yellow Emperor wore it to sign, and the birds were especially good on the same day. Later, there was a book "The Yellow Emperor Asks Xuannu Tactics" to interpret the above story. Old Tang Book. The three volumes of the "Yellow Emperor's Question to Xuannu Law" are recorded in the military category of the Classics, which may be from the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Among them, there is a cloud: "The Yellow Emperor and Chi You have been invincible in nine battles." The Yellow Emperor returned to Taishan, three days and three nights, and the sky was foggy. There is a woman, the head of the bird shape, the Yellow Emperor bowed again, and did not dare to rise. The woman said, 'My daughter, what does the son want to ask?' The Yellow Emperor said: "If the boy wants to win all battles and hide, where should he start?" Then the law of war was obtained. Ming Dong Si Zhang's "Guang Bo Zhi" volume 9 once quoted the text of "The Art of War", and also recorded the above story. The text said: "Chi You has changed in many ways, recruiting wind and rain, blowing smoke and spray, and the Yellow Emperor is a big fan." The emperor returned to the mountains and fell asleep.

(8) The legend of the Queen Mother

The queen mother sent a messenger to be the fur of the Xuanhu to give the emperor a charm, three inches wide, one foot long, green as jade, and Dan blood as the text. After the charm was completed, the queen mother ordered a woman, with a human head and a bird body, and said to the emperor: "I am also a Xuannu of the Nine Heavens." 'Grant the emperor the strategy of yin and yang of the three palaces and five meanings, the technique of Taiyi Dunjia and six non step fighting, the machine of yin charms, and the text of Lingbao five charms and five victories.

In another few years, the Queen Mother sent the god of the white tiger to gather in the imperial court on the white deer and give him a map. This article is much more beneficial than "The Yellow Emperor Asks Xuannu Tactics", and has more Taoist colors, and the book should be published later, perhaps from the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Du Guangting, a Taoist priest of the fifth generation in the late Tang Dynasty, synthesized the above information and wrote it into "The Biography of the Nine Heavens Xuannu", which was included in the sixth volume of "Yongcheng Jixian Lu" (also contained in the "Seven Signatures of Yunji" volume 114). The biography also tells the story of Xuannu giving talismans to the Yellow Emperor to break the Chiyou, but it clearly describes Xuannu as a Taoist immortal. The first sentence of the biography is the cloud: "The Nine Heavens Xuannu, the teacher of the Yellow Emperor, and the disciple of Our Lady Yuanjun." Jiyun: "The queen mother sent an envoy, dressed in the fur of the Xuanhu, to give the emperor a talisman and said: 'Thinking about the sky, there must be a response from the Taishang.'" When the Xuannu descended and the emperor was ordered to worship again, the Xuannu said: "I use the teachings of the ether, and if you have any doubts, you can ask them." When the Yellow Emperor asked for the wish to teach the method of war, "Xuannu gave the emperor the six armor and six soldiers of the letter of the talisman, the Lingbao five talismans to make the book of ghosts and gods, and the seal of the five spirits of the demon system", etc., so "then the destruction of the Chi is especially in the wilderness of the brunt, the hometown of the middle and Hebei, divided into four mounds to bury it." After such a description, the Nine Heavens Xuannu became an ancient fairy and was included in the Taoist genealogy.

The Nine Heavens Xuannu also had an impact on ancient Chinese society. The forty-first chapter of "Water Margin" "Huandao Village Receives Three Volumes of Heavenly Books, Song Gongming Meets the Nine Heavens Xuannu", which tells the story of Song Jiang being chased by officers and soldiers, hiding in the Nine Heavens Xuannu Temple, being rescued by the Nine Heavens Xuannu, and awarding him three volumes of the military book. (To be continued.) )

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