On Monday morning, Yue Haohan took leave, and accompanied Ye Yunqing, Fu Rongsheng, and Zhang Haiming to Wudang Mountain with Cheng Ziying. If I had known a few years ago, I would have come here earlier.

Yue Haohan, who was sitting in the back of the car, asked, Mr. Ye, do you have a saying about these ancient tea trees?

Ye Yunqing held the steering wheel in his hand, looked ahead, and replied, of course, there is a saying, tea trees like light and shade, and are suitable for giving birth under diffused light; The life cycle is divided into the seedling stage, the juvenile stage, the adult stage and the old age period, and the economic age is generally 40~50 years. But some trees can be up to one or two hundred years old; Even if there are trees that are more than 1,000 years old, they are even more precious.

Fu Rongsheng, who was sitting next to Yue Haohan, said, Mr. Ye, do you mean that the older the tea tree is, the more essence of heaven and earth it absorbs, and the more precious the processed tea leaves.

Ye Yunqing said that it can be understood that the tea tree is more than 100 years old, and it is still growing lush, which itself shows that the surrounding environment is suitable for the growth of such a variety of tea trees, indicating that the vitality of the tea tree has reached a good balance with the surrounding environment, just like us, the nutrition of your body, the yin and yang qi in the body have reached a balance, then you will not get sick, you will live a long and healthy life.

Zhang Haiming said that it seems that this tea also has so much exquisiteness. Mr. Ye, where do you say the oldest tea trees are distributed? How old is the oldest tea tree you've ever seen?

Ye Yunqing said that the oldest tea tree I have ever seen is in YN, more than 3,000 years old. The ancient tea tree is unique in China and the world, and is an important natural and cultural heritage, with great scientific, cultural and economic value. The physical basis for the origin of tea is in our Chinese territory, which has been recognized by the whole world since ancient times.

Fu Rongsheng said, in order to study the medical and health value of tea, I have also consulted a large number of historical materials, in fact, the same as the origin of any species. The origin and existence of tea must have been before the discovery and utilization of tea trees by human beings, and it was not discovered and used by people until a long, long time later. Our human experience of using tea, but also through the generations, from the local area slowly expanded, and after a long, long time, it was gradually seen in the written record, in the study of tea history, every time to mention the ancient times of Shennong: "Shennong tastes a hundred herbs, the day is seventy-two poisons, and it can be solved." This is the evidence, according to this inference, in China, the discovery and use of tea should have started from the matriarchal clan society of the primitive society, and it should have a history of five or six thousand years. Therefore, written records show that our ancestors began to cultivate and use tea trees more than 3,000 years ago, but the origin of tea must be much earlier than the written record.

Ye Yunqing said, so, vast, yesterday I saw those ancient tea trees in Wulong Township, and I had already made a decision in my heart, this time I will go back, and immediately arrange for someone to come over and negotiate with you to invest in the development of tea in your area.

Yue Haohan said, then we will raise our hands to welcome Mr. Ye, and our people here will welcome you even more!

The car drove unhurriedly, everyone chatted all the way, a little past ten o'clock, and unconsciously the car had arrived at the gate of Wudang Mountain, Ye Yunqing parked the car in the parking lot in front of the ticket office at the gate of the mountain.

After the car stopped, Yue Haohan had just come out of the car when he saw Wang Jianlong, a disciple of Qingfeng Dao Leader Li Yifu, dressed in Taoist costume, walking over with a smile from the ticket office at the gate of the mountain.

Wang Jianlong came to everyone, looked at everyone, and said to Yue Haohan, "Senior Brother Haohan, Master asked me to pick you up here, he had something to do in Zixiao Palace in the morning, let me take you directly to Zixiao Palace."

Yue Haohan introduced Wang Jianlong to everyone, and then said, then I will go to buy tickets, and we will go directly to Zixiao Palace.

Wang Jianlong said, you don't need to buy it, I have a certificate issued by the Taoist Association here, and you don't need to buy tickets again. In a moment, your car will follow behind the pickup truck where we are buying groceries, and we will show you the way.

After Wang Jianlong finished speaking, he turned back to a pickup truck parked near the ticket office at the mountain gate, said a few words to the other two Taoists, and then beckoned to Yue Haohanmen, and got into the pickup truck.

Everyone got into Ye Yunqing's crown car, followed the pickup truck of Daoxie to buy vegetables in front of Wang Jianlong, and drove towards the mountain, the road up the mountain was very steep and there were many curves, Ye Yunqing drove very cautiously. Yue Haohan, who was sitting in the back of the car, asked Ye Yunqing and said, Mr. Ye, you are used to driving in a big city, you haven't walked such a mountain road.

Ye Yunqing held the steering wheel with both hands, looked ahead, and replied, vast, you are wrong, a road like Wudang Mountain is not precipitous, and I have also walked on a road that is even more steep than this, you must know, what I do, you have not heard of it, "high mountain clouds and mist produce good tea", I have to personally go to the origin of tea several times a year for more than ten years, you are like Wuyi Mountain, the origin of "Da Hong Pao Tea", I go several times a year, and the road there is even more dangerous.

When he arrived at Laojuntang's place, the pickup truck in front of him turned right and slowly stopped on the side of the road, Ye Yunqing's car followed, also swerved, and stopped with the pickup truck.

Wang Jianlong jumped down from the pickup truck in front of him, walked to Ye Yunqing's car, and said, This is a place for tourists to go up the mountain to check their tickets, and we can get off the bus to rest.

After everyone got out of the car, standing in front of the car, Fu Rongsheng looked at a courtyard with blue bricks and black tiles on the opposite ridge, and a courtyard with red paint on the ruins, raised his finger, and asked Wang Jianlong, said, is that courtyard Laojuntang?

Wang Jianlong looked in the direction pointed by Fu Rongsheng and replied, Yes, that is Laojuntang.

Fu Rongsheng said, let's go over and have a look, and see what Taishang Laojun's alchemy furnace looks like.

Seeing that Fu Rongsheng and Zhang Haiming were very interested, Wang Jianlong walked in front to guide, everyone crossed the highway and walked in the direction of Laojun Hall, while walking, Wang Jianlong explained that Laojun Hall, also known as Laojun Palace, is a place dedicated to Taishang Laojun. There were already Taoist buildings here during the Apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty, and it was rebuilt in the first year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were still 54 temples and temples, which were later destroyed by fire. According to my master, the original scale of Laojun Hall was very grand, and the existing buildings on the site may have been made by private believers after the fire, and they are not the real style of those years.

Laojuntang is on the ridge behind a row of wooden houses across the road, and he has reached the gate of the courtyard while talking.

Wang Jianlong introduced on the side, saying, this is the first floor of the Laojun Palace, which is the alchemy platform in the legend, and it is the place where Taishang Laojun placed the furnace for alchemy.

Everyone looked at the place where the Dan furnace was placed, but unfortunately, the furnace was filled with smoke and Dan without a shadow, leaving the Baoding Immortals empty. Fortunately, the alchemy platform was surrounded by clouds and mist, and it was faintly felt that there were white clouds and mist rising and dispersing from the Dan furnace, giving people a feeling of being in a fairyland.

Cheng Ziying walked to the alchemy furnace curiously, looked into the copper pill furnace, and asked mischievously, where is the elixir? Why didn't you see the elixir in the furnace? Did Sun Wukong eat it all?

People have a sense of subjective integration, Cheng Ziying's naughty question, aroused everyone's curiosity, everyone gathered around, carefully inspected the Dan furnace on the platform, Yue Haohan stroked the Dan furnace, and thought of Wu Chengen's description of Sun Wukong's arrival at the Laojun Palace in "Journey to the West", "There is no Laojun there, and there is no one around." "What a similarity at this time.

Extending from the alchemy platform to the back, it is a two-storey palace-style building, Wang Jianlong introduced it to everyone, saying, this is the Taishang view, listen to my master, this palace was first built in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, when the palace covers a wide area, the area is very large, there are more than 100 palace rooms alone, staggered and inlayed, layer upon layer, it is the largest Laojun Palace in China at that time.

Listening to Wang Jianlong's introduction, Zhang Haiming turned his head to look at Wang Jianlong and asked, why has it become so dilapidated now?

Wang Jianlong replied, Professor Zhang, at that time, there were literati who wrote poems to praise here: "Thousands of floors of pavilions are in the air, and thousands of stacks of clouds and mountains are under the ring." "Call this place "the palace of the world". It's a pity that the war was destroyed, and only a few dozen of them are now dilapidated.

Under the guidance of Wang Jianlong, everyone entered the hall along the steps, and watched the scenery through the hall, Yue Haohan took Cheng Ziying's hand, sensing the grand scale of this place back then, and imagined the lively scene here back then: "I suddenly heard that the fairy music fell from the sky, and it is suspected that the immortals returned to the world." "Every brick and tile here seems to contain the mystery and dignity of Wudang Taoism.

Out of the Taishang Temple, behind is the third layer, called Taishang Rock, there is the Song Dynasty Taoist Ren Daoqing, Wang Daoxing carved Lao Tzu stone carving, the stone statue after nearly a thousand years of wind and rain washing, still lifelike, calm and kind, smiling sitting on the Zhu Dan Ling platform, as if preaching to all beings in the world. The gods carved on both sides of the stone statue have pleasant expressions and thoughts.

Seeing this scene, Yue Haohan suddenly remembered in "Journey to the West" that when Sun Wukong entered the Tushi Palace: "That Lao Jun and the ancient Buddha of the burning lamp preached on the three-story pavilion Zhu Danling platform, and all the fairy children, immortal generals, immortal officials, and immortal officials all stood on the left and right sides to listen. Yue Haohan thought to himself, could it be that Wu Chengen, his old man, wrote "Journey to the West" and came to the Laojun Palace of Wudang Mountain?

I thought again, that Taishang Laojun, the originator of Taoism, knows the art of yin and yang, and is a predictor ancestor who can pinch and calculate, how could he not calculate that Sun Monkey is going to steal the elixir? It seems that Lao Jun did it intentionally!

When Yue Haohan was thinking about this, Wang Jianlong seemed to know what everyone was thinking, and introduced on the side, all of you must be thinking, "Journey to the West" wrote the story of Sun Wukong stealing the pill in the Laojun Palace, Taishang Laojun can pinch and calculate, why let Sun Wukong sneak in and steal the pill?

Yue Haohan turned his head to look at Wang Jianlong and said, Brother Jianlong, you are called able to pinch and calculate, I am really thinking about this story in "Journey to the West", why do you say it?

Wang Jianlong smiled and said, everyone who has watched "Journey to the West" knows that from the scene of Sun Wukong's stealing of Dan: the palace gate is wide open, there are no traces of the four people, next to the hanging Dan furnace, the gods are listening to the lecture on the third floor, it should be said that this scene shows that Taishang Laojun deliberately designed to steal the gift, and deliberately let Sun Wukong eat into King Kong's incorruptible body. It should also be said that Wudang Mountain Laojuntang has an indissoluble relationship with Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West", and it was Wu Chengen who evolved the largest Wudang Laojuntang in China at that time into the Doushi Palace in the novel. It can be guessed that Wu Chengen must have been here before writing "Journey to the West".

After a pause, Wang Jianlong turned around, stood on the side of a step, facing everyone, and then said, why did Taishang Laojun let Sun Wukong steal the golden pill, and later refined him into a fiery eye in the alchemy furnace? Legend has it that when Nuwa mended the sky, she sat on a big stone to rest, and it happened that Nuwa came to the tide on the stone, and then Taishang Laojun came to the world to inspect the people's conditions, passing through here, and also sat on the stone where Nuwa once sit, and the stone took the essence of the two, and after hundreds of years of absorbing the yin and yang of heaven and earth, and then a Monkey King popped up. Nuwa mends the sky, and the legend is that it is at the western foot of Wudang Mountain. The gods also have the intention of loving their sons, and Taishang Laojun let Sun Monkey steal the pill to eat in order to hide from the Jade Emperor, and under the pretext of refining Sun Wukong, he actually refined him into a fiery eye.

After Wang Jianlong finished telling the legend, Professor Zhang Haiming took over and said, in fact, there is another saying about this allusion, that is, Taishang Laojun did everything possible to cultivate and protect Sun Wukong, and he was misunderstood by Sun Wukong without leaving his name, which is related to his own moral cultivation. In the thirty-second chapter of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, it says: "Usually nameless, simple." "The simple, true and good, is nameless and invisible, harmonious in the world, and connected by the road. Sun Wukong's ability to become a great road is related to Taishang Laojun's harmonious moral concept and cultivation. Wu Chengen can hide the words "Tao and Virtue" in the novel "Journey to the West", which can be regarded as a great deal.

Fu Rongsheng said, Lao Zhang's statement has reached a higher level, in my personal opinion, Taishang Laojun is actually a Taoist expert in refining medicines, and he deliberately let Sun Monkey steal the pill, just to test how effective the pill he refined on Sun Monkey is.

Ye Yunqing took it with a smile and said, According to Fu Lao's statement, I understand that when Sun Wukong secretly ate the pill, he didn't expect it to have such a good effect, and Taishang Laojun regretted it very much, and he never refined such a good quality pill again.

Everyone laughed and returned from Laojun Hall, the staff of the ticket office of the roadside scenic spot had already checked the certificate issued by the Taoist Association, everyone crossed the road and got into the car, it was still Wang Jianlong's pickup truck leading the way, Ye Yunqing's car followed closely, and the two cars carried everyone towards the Zixiao Palace on the mountain.