At the east gate of the south gate of Pingcheng, a long queue slowly came out of the city gate. The sergeants stepped on the stone slabs that had been poured with clear water, and with spears in their hands, they marched east to the sound of the snare drums. When the whole team came out, there was a distance of five or six miles before and after.

Today, King Ren Cheng is going to Xuzhou to take over the history of assassination, and the emperor will practice it for King Ren Cheng at the Heavenly Master Dao Altar.

In the ninth painted wheel car nearly 100 meters behind the emperor's car, Tuoba Shen and Tuoba Ke rode together.

Today is the fourth day after Tuoba Shen returned to the palace, and he has been quite low-key in the past few days, going back and forth between Xuanwen Hall, Qingxiao Courtyard and Zhongyin Palace, and he didn't even go to Qifeng Pavilion. Until yesterday afternoon, the emperor sent an edict, telling him to go out of the city with the emperor's car today for the king of Rencheng to practice.

Tuoba Shen had heard of the appointment of King Ren Cheng as the Assassin of Xuzhou, and Xue Huzi, the Assassin of Xuzhou, had written five times since last year, asking the imperial court to send someone to take over his position. The imperial court has been in Xuzhou for many years, it can be said that it is the management of Xuzhou, the court is still at ease, and because it is not clear whether Xue Huzi's illness is really to the extent that he can not do anything, so he did not agree, until the night before yesterday, received an urgent report from Xuzhou, Xue Huzi was seriously ill, according to the messenger, when he left Pengcheng, Xue Huzi was no longer able to eat, I am afraid that he has died at this time.

Therefore, the emperor the next day asked the kings of the imperial court and the provincial supervisors to consult together, select personnel, and finally after two days, it was decided that the king of Rencheng would go. King Rencheng used to serve as the assassin in Liangzhou, which bordered the Southern Dynasty, and Xuzhou also bordered the Xuzhou Thorn History Department of the Southern Dynasty, the geographical location is very important, Pengcheng, the seat of Xuzhou, is the important city closest to Shouyang, an important city in the Jianghuai town of the Southern Dynasty, so the status of Xuzhou is not an ordinary state, and the selection of candidates for the history of the assassin is also extremely cautious.

"It's the first time I've been to the Dao Tan Temple, I've only heard of it before, and it's outside the city, so I can't go all the time. I heard from the palace people yesterday that there are many immortal carvings there, second brother, let's go and see it together, right? ”

"Good! I haven't been there for my brother, but I'm afraid I won't have much time. After all, when our uncle is gone, we have to go back to the palace. "It's hard to come out to play once, Tuoba Shen doesn't want to go back early, it's rare to come to the Heavenly Master Dojo once, it's a pity not to have fun.

Tuoba Ke listened to the words of the second brother, smiled mysteriously, and said: "Second brother doesn't know, my uncle didn't come so early, I heard early this morning that my uncle and the Marquis of Guangling docked with the Liangzhou government affairs bookkeeper today, and he couldn't come so early, and he would have to wait until the afternoon." ”

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After walking for half an hour, Tuoba Shen could see a Taoist altar appear in front of him from a distance through the gaps revealed by the banner from time to time.

After entering the outer wall of the altar, Tuoba Shen saw that on the square in front of the altar, there were already more than 100 Taoist priests dressed neatly. After the emperor got out of the car first, these Taoist priests all came up to pay their respects.

Tuoba Shen stood behind the uncles of the kings, watched the emperor talk to the temple master who led the Taoist altar, looked at the Taoist altar as high as five layers in front of him, the first floor looks like three zhang high, the fifth layer is fifteen zhang high, all of them are made of bricks, the brick surface is painted with green paint, each layer of the five-layer altar is made of wood, and it is full of cyan flags (the Taoist color is cyan), there are six masonry ladders on the first layer under the altar, and each of the above floors is a rotating masonry ladder built according to the altar body. It still looks majestic, but the traces of rain and time erosion are also obvious.

"This can be regarded as the glory of Heavenly Master Dao and Kou Heavenly Master! It's a pity that Taoism is so decadent now, Kou Tianshi knows it, but I don't know what to think! ”

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The Heavenly Master Taoist Altar, also known as the "Great Dao Altar Temple" and "Heavenly Master Daoist", was built by the new Heavenly Master Kou Qianzhi during the period of Emperor Shizu.

Speaking of the matter of the ancestors worshipping the Tao, there is not only the element of seeking immortals, but also the meaning of appeasing the Taoists.

The Taoist gate itself is just about doing nothing, seclusion, and belongs to the study of escapism. During the Warring States Period, each doctrine found its own way to engage in politics, and the Daomen also had two ways out under this trend, one was to seek their own freedom like Zhuang Zhou, and the other part was to transform into a monk, to refine the elixir to obtain the day and fly immortals, and achieve the goal of longevity.

These monks received the letter of King Qi Xuan and King Yan Zhao during the Warring States Period, and they became famous for a while. After entering the Han Dynasty, the study of Huang Lao prevailed, and the government emphasized a quiet and inactive government. During this period, because of the rise of Confucianism, the two kinds of learning of Fangshu and Confucianism were integrated.

After the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Confucian scholars in society were mainly divided into two ways, one was chapter and sentence learning, and the other was different words.

The chapter and sentence are to take the words of the predecessors and mess with yy, in the words of the two Han people, in order to analyze a word said by the predecessors, tens of thousands of words can be written. Analyzing a copy of the Analects can write millions of words, that kind of messy and complicated learning.

The study of disasters is somewhat complicated, this part is integrated with the study of Huang Lao and the study of Fang Shi, and Dong Zhongshu's "Spring and Autumn Dew" can be said to be its origin and representative work. The original intention of the doctrine of calamity is to restrain the actions of kings with the unsearchable will of the Heavens, so that the kings with unlimited power will be in awe of the Heavens and act unscrupulously.

Under the theory of disaster and the Confucian theory of "Mandate of Heaven", coupled with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's reckless military force, it led to repeated uprisings across the country and the decline of the country, and a saying of "the end of the Han family" arose in society. During the period of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, someone once played a game, saying that after Tang Yao, Liu had the responsibility to give way to the world and asked the emperor to find a virtuous person to give way.

It can be said that the crisis of the Western Han Dynasty was beginning to emerge here.

During the period of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, Fang Shi Ganzhong Ke wrote a book called "Tianguan Calendar Baoyuan Taiping Sutra", preaching the political prophecy that "the Han family should be more ordered by heaven and earth when it is the end of heaven and earth", and said that it was the emperor of heaven who let the red sperm grant him this scripture. For the first time in this book, the legendary gods were born to pass on their teachings. Gan Zhongke's original intention was to enter the political circle with this to ask the emperor for officials, so that they could also be ranked among the official schools, but although his "more ordained" statement was much more restrained than the previous request for Liu's Zen position, it was still unacceptable to the ruling class, so Gan Zhongke died in prison.

His disciple Xiahou Liang continued to sell his "more ordained" theory to the emperor during the period of Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty, and during this period, the crisis of the rule of the Western Han Dynasty intensified, and the Emperor Ai of Han accepted his statement, changed the name of China's first four-character era "Taichu Yuan General", and called himself "Emperor Chen Shengliu Taiping". But the title was removed in the second month. It can be seen that even the emperor himself believed in the theory of disaster and the end of the Han family.

Although Gan Zhongke's use of the name of the gods to add aura to his doctrine ended in failure, it was inherited at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

During the Yanxi period of Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xiangkai, a native of the plains, transferred to Yu Ji, the teacher of the Langya Palace, obtained the divine book "Taiping Qing Lingshu". Because the "Taiping Qing Lingshu" pointed out many ills in the society at that time, put forward many ideas to establish the "Taiping World Road", touched the taboo of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the government with its words of delusion, hidden the secret house, and then Zhang Jiao got a part, and established the Taiping Road.

The Taiping Dao Uprising, led by Zhang Jiao, was the first attempt by the Daomen to replace secular politics with sectarian ideology, and its results ended in failure. In the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a second attempt at the Wudou Midao uprising led by Sun En and Lu Xun.

Zhang Ling, the founder of Wudou Midao, was called "Zhang Daoling" in later generations, and his descendants were all "Zhang Tianshi" of Longhu Mountain until the Republic, but it was not so pure.

Zhang Daoling was born in the abundant area where Fang Shi frequently operated, and he was not far from Langya, where the "Taiping Qing Lingshu" appeared, so there were many teachings in his five buckets of rice that were consistent with the Taiping Dao.

Zhang Daoling claimed that he met Taishang Laojun in Heming Mountain in the first year of Han'an, and Laojun gave him the method of talisman and named him a heavenly master. In the second year, Zhang Daoling founded the Heavenly Master Dao in Qingcheng Mountain. Because the Heavenly Master Dao required the people to hand in five buckets of rice, it was later also called the "Five Buckets of Rice Dao".

Zhang Daoling's Heavenly Master Dao did not propagate the teachings that were unfavorable to the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to facilitate the preaching, he had the words "to catch thieves for the Han Kingdom" in the Taoist scriptures, and he also used "Fu Han" as a word. In addition, there were many small people in the land where he lived, and his teachings contributed to the local order of rule, so he was not suppressed.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the warlords fought, and Zhang Lu, the grandson of Zhang Daoling, occupied Hanzhong, and used this place to practice the Five Buckets of Rice Dao Law. After the surrender of Cao Cao, Wudou Midao also entered the Central Plains for development. After the civil strife in the Western Jin Dynasty, the Wudou Rice Road was gradually divided into two branches, north and south.

The southern part of the Eastern Jin Dynasty ruled by the Eastern Jin Dynasty had a better missionary environment than the north, and many Nandu clans believed in the Tao of the Heavenly Master for generations, so the Southern Branch of the Heavenly Master Tao made great progress, and at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Taoist Sun En led the Wudoumi Taoist uprising, and put forward the slogan of "killing dissidents" in the process of raising troops. The uprising, which lasted more than ten years, dealt a heavy blow to the Eastern Jin scholars, and the second struggle to replace secular rule with religious rule once again failed.

In addition, since the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, there has been a Taoist political prophecy among the people in the north and south. It is called "Lao Jun should rule, Li Hong should come out". Lao Jun is Taishang Laojun, Lao Tzu Li Er, what about Li Hong? Li Hong is the reincarnation of Laojun. The meaning of the prophecy is that Lao Jun will be born in the name of Li Hong and lead the people to recreate a peaceful and prosperous era. Since the appearance of this book in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the soldiers "called Li Hong, and there are years of it!" The word Li Hong became the heart disease of all ruling classes, which spread throughout the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Cheng Han Dynasty, the Former Zhao Dynasty, and the Later Qin Dynasty. Entering the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Li Hong still appeared from time to time. The appeal of the people at the bottom was no worse than that of Maitreya Buddha when Buddhism was prevalent later.

After entering this dynasty, in view of the influence of Taoism in the bottom of the people, in order to rule the needs, the Tao was won over by the imperial court, Emperor Liezu believed in Taoism, liked to read Taoist scriptures, took pills, and once set up the position of immortal doctor. During the period of Emperor Shizu, Cui Hao, who had believed in the Five Buckets of Rice for generations, recommended Kou Qianzhi, a Taoist priest of Songyue, to Emperor Shizu. Kou Qianzhi claimed to have met Taishang Laojun in Songshan, Laojun named him as the Heavenly Master, and gave him the "Yunzhongyin Recitation of the Precepts", he took this book as the guiding ideology, and began the movement to reform the Heavenly Master Dao in the Great Wei, Kou Qianzhi abolished the tradition of the Heavenly Master Dao to lead the people with hereditary sacrificial wine, and required the people to be loyal to the emperor, and not to make trouble in the name of Li Hong, Liu Ju (Liu, Han Family Liu's family, lift, the meaning of the matter), and abolished the popular male and female Aiki Room Zhongshu in the Heavenly Master's Dao, (because the male and female Aikishu had become an obscene art at that time, which tarnished the reputation of Taoism.) Laws were revised, Confucian principles of loyalty and righteousness were introduced, Jiao rituals were modified, and Taoist disciples were required to recite Taoist scriptures.

These doctrinal reforms, so that the new Heavenly Master Tao in this dynasty to flourish for a while, Kou Qianzhi and suggested to Emperor Shizu that Emperor Shizu accept the Taishang Fu Gong, so Emperor Shizu built this Heavenly Master Taoist altar, here to accept the Fu Gong, this kind of ceremony later generations of emperors have been carried out after the accession to the throne, which is regarded as a pacification of the Taoist people.

It's a pity that after Kou Qian's death, there were no more outstanding people in Taoism, and the Taoism of the Heavenly Master gradually became dull. Compared with the inexplicable fact that Taoism pursues the ascension to immortals and the pursuit of immortality, but no one has ever seen the immortals with their own eyes, Buddhism does not seek this life, and avoids many illusory theories that cannot be explained in order to pursue the afterlife, but is more popular among the people. By now, it can be said that Buddhism has left Taoism behind.

Compared with Yongning Temple, Tiangong Temple and many other royal temples, the Celestial Master Taoist Altar, which has been repaired for decades only when the emperor received the talisman, is obviously too declining.

Take a closer look, the paint on the blue lacquered bricks on the altar has fallen off a lot. Moss was everywhere in the cracks of the bricks, and there were obvious traces of removal, which seemed to have been cleaned by the Daoists themselves.