The Southern Sect of Taoism was founded in the Northern Song Dynasty by Zhang Boduan, and its initial inheritance system was Zhang Boduan-Shi Tai-Xue Daoguang-Chen Nan-Bai Yuchan (Southern Five Ancestors).

This sect is known for its "life before sex" cultivation method. Its Dan method emphasizes "returning to the basics, controlling complexity with simplicity, and seeking speed in slowness". Most of its representatives are from the south, hence the name Nanzong.

"Enlightenment Chapter", "Return to the Source Chapter", "Resurrection Chapter", "Cuixu Chapter" and so on are the main classics of Nanzong.

Nanzong inherited Zhong Liquan and Lu Dongbin's concept of Inner Dan, and believed that cultivating Inner Dan is to cultivate "sex and life" (dual cultivation of life), and to learn from life before sex.

He advocates "mixing with the vulgar and light" and "the great hidden and mixed with the vulgar", and does not advocate ordination

。 In the middle and late Yuan Dynasty, the combination of the Quanzhen Dao that originally spread in the north and the Neidan sect in the south, and the sect of the Neidan Xuenan sect was also divided into the Taoist Quanzhen Dao. Different from the original Quanzhen Path, most of the people in the Southern Sect of the Inner Dan do not advocate ordination.

Nanzong has been practicing the thunder method since Zhang Nan, and Bai Yuchan has written a variety of thunder law works.

Zhang Boduan opposed the formal renunciation and seclusion from the mountains and forests. And advocate "big hidden in the city".

He himself was not a monk. Until the fifth ancestor Bai Yuchan, the Southern Sect began to have wandering Taoist priests, and also organized the Southern Sect's own religious organization.

It is generally believed that Bai Yuchan is the actual founder of the Southern Sect. The sects that Bai Yuchan began to establish were both the Danfa sect and the Lei Fa sect. After the Ming Dynasty, the north and south sects were mostly integrated with each other.

Zhang Boduan, Shi Tai, Xue Shi, Chen Nan, and Bai Yuchan ("Southern Five Ancestors"), together with Zhang Boduan's disciple Liu Yongnian and Bai Yuchan's disciple Peng Helin, are enshrined as "Southern Seven Truths" (see Five Ancestors and Seven Truths).

The Northern Sect pursues "all true and immortal", and its cultivation is mainly pure, that is, with "knowing the heart and seeing nature" as the first priority, refining the heart and refining the foundation, and at the same time not wasting the cultivation of essence, Wang Chongyang said: "The heart and mind are full of true awareness, and the knowledge of mercury leads to good buds." ”

("Chongyang Quanzhen Collection", Volume 1, No. 1) This is to take the refining of the mind of "knowing the mind and insight" and the refining of qi of "knowing mercury and lead" as the two basic contents of "Quanzhen".

Compared with the Southern Sect's practice of "life before sex", the Northern Sect's Dan method is characterized by "life before life".

Regarding purity and refining, all the families of the Northern Sect regard this as the superior Dan method, the only way.

Wang Chongyang said: "If you want to really practice, you will eat when you are hungry, close your eyes when you sleep, don't meditate, don't learn the Tao, as long as the dust and redundancy are removed, as long as the heart is pure, the rest is not practice." ”

("Chongyang Quanzhen Collection" Volume 10, No. 12) Ma Yu said: "Those who are pure are clear of their hearts, and they are pure of the sea." If the heart is clear, external objects cannot be disturbed, so the situation is fixed and the gods are born.

Qi Haijing can't do evil desires, so he is complete and substantial.

It is to clear the heart like clear water, to raise a child like to raise a child, to show the gods, and to change the gods, which is the result of purity. ("Danyang Real People's Quotations") Qiu Chuji said: "I learn only to see the nature, and the combination of water and fire is secondary." ("Quotations from Changchun Real People")

Anyone who has watched the legend of the Condor Heroes knows that the Seven Sons of Quanzhen, most people think that it is a martial arts fabrication, but in fact it is true, but it is not so powerful.

Wang Chongyang is not so godly, he was deified by Mr. Jin Yong.

The reason why the Northern Sect attaches great importance to refining nature and refining is because the school itself is the product of the confluence of Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism, and is deeply influenced by Buddhism's "clear mind and insight".

Second, because this faction has unique views on the issue of the relationship between life and life.

For example, in Qiu Chuji's view, the body is born and destroyed, but the divinity is born and destroyed, so "the form is bad, the heaven and the earth are also illusory bodies, and the yuan will end, only a little sunshine, beyond the calamity, in the human body is the sea of sex, that is, the original god." ”

Therefore, in a fundamental sense, cultivation is to complete its true nature, and the true nature is clear, and the natal nature can be fully achieved. However, the heavy sex gong is not without emphasizing the power of life, the school also emphasizes the combination of god and qi, such as Wang Chongyang said: "Qi and spirit are combined, called immortals." ”

Regarding qi refining, Wang Chongyang has a different understanding of the spirit. He recognized essence as sex and blood as life, "The essence of blood is the foundation of the flesh; The true qi is the foundation of life.

Therefore, it is said that those who have blood can have true qi, and those who are strong and strong will naturally last for a long time, and those who concentrate blood will also be formed."

Since the essence and blood are inseparable and life is related, refining nature cannot but refine true qi. Qiu Chuji further explained in "Da Dan Zhizhi": "The secret of Jindan lies in one nature and one life.

Sexuals, the sky, often lurk at the top. The one who lives, the earth, often lurks in the umbilicus. The top one, the sexual root also.

The umbilicus is also the root of life. One by one, the origin of heaven and earth, and the ancestors............ The one who is in the middle of the top, lead, tiger, water, gold............ The one who lives in the umbilicus, mercury, dragons, fire, and roots. ”

Therefore, all the internal cultivation masters of the Northern Sect also "know lead and mercury", and all know "subduing the dragon and subduing the tiger".

The distinction between the two sects of the north and the south is not based on which faction cultivates sex or life alone, in fact, both factions cultivate life at the same time, but there are differences in priority, priority, and effort.

The Southern Sect has "many people who speak of life and few people who have a certain nature", while the Northern Sect has "three points of life and seven points of sexuality"; The Southern Sect advocates refining life with a solid belly, while the Northern Sect advocates an open-minded refining of nature, such as Ming Wu Shouyang's "Nine Chapters of Dan Dao" takes "refining oneself and returning oneself" as a starting effort.

The two sects of the north and south are unanimous on the crucial issue of using cultivation methods to promote the condensation of divine qi into an immortal fetus.

"As the predecessors said, it doesn't matter if it's right or not." Jiang Hao also started a dumb riddle.

For someone like me who is not even a disciple of the Dao Sect, the words of the two of them are really unfathomable, and I can only quietly watch them pretending to be forced.

"Good, good." Bai Daoist had a teachable expression on his face.

"In that case, then we'll take our leave." Jiang Xuan suddenly proposed to leave, I was petrified in an instant, I still have a lot of questions to ask!

What to go, what to go.

"Huh......" I whispered, Jiang Hao shook his head at me, and whispered: "The identity of the predecessor is by no means something we can guess, and he can't tell you many things, and he can't tell you." ”。

What she said was unfathomable, but looking at Daoist Bai, she had a sense of appreciating Jiang Xuan.

"Chen Xuantong, the time has not yet come, I can't say everything to you, your path has just begun, practice the Heavenly Fortune Secret Record, and besides, you come in with me." Bai Daoist suddenly turned his head and went to the next room.

I was stunned in place, and Jiang Hao urged: "You don't want to go quickly, this is your great opportunity!" ”。

"Uh-oh." I woke up like a dream and hurriedly walked in with the white priest.

Walking into the wing, Bai Daoist made a move and led the Spring Thunder Sword behind me over, and I didn't even react.

Is this Nima the legendary swordsmanship?

The Spring Thunder Sword was filled with a faint layer of heat in the hands of the White Daoist, like the smell of being sunburned on the asphalt road in summer, and a wave of heat rolled towards me.

"Two hundred years...... I saw the Spring Thunder Sword again. With a glint in his eyes, the White Daoist scolded, and the Big Dipper Seven Stars on the Spring Thunder Sword actually floated in the air, and the Spring Thunder Sword let out a scream.

This Seven Stars exudes a huge amount of energy, almost suffocating me, is this the strength of the White Daoist? It's terrifying.

"Did you hear that?" Bai Daoist flicked the blade of his sword and sighed: "This is the thing that is in charge of Xiamao Mountain, how can you let it be dusty?" ”。

My face turned red, the Spring Thunder Sword was useless in my hand except for the function of a lightning strike wood, this is not to say that the Spring Thunder Sword is not good, but I am too spicy chicken.

"Senior...... Do you know my Chen family ancestor. "I swallowed my saliva, judging from the performance of the white priest, he must know my ancestors, maybe there is a deep connection.

I suddenly remembered the story that Dou Sanye said before, isn't the Taoist priest in that story surnamed Bai?