Chapter 186: Classification of Taoism

After hearing the words of the fourth aunt, the sloppy Taoist slowly opened the wine gourd, poured a few sips of liquor, and began to tell the story of what happened at the beginning (in order to avoid verbosity, the following will change all the poor roads to the first person): "That year, my department received an urgent call from the night watchman in Xiangping area, the so-called night watchman is the person who was placed in my department to guard something in the place. "I'm afraid that Brother Cao and I won't understand, Lao Dao specially explained it to the two of us." Said that the local Tokyo Mausoleum underground monsters are about to move, and I hope that my department will send someone over as soon as possible, if it drags on for a long time, I'm afraid something big will happen. After receiving the news, I contacted other personnel in the department who did not have a mission, and temporarily studied the various situations that might occur after the appearance of this monster, and the deputy section chief at that time decided that our Taoist would be the vanguard to go to the field to investigate, and if the situation deteriorated, he would bring backup personnel to reinforce later.

After deciding, I ordered three teachers and nephews who had been on missions with me all year round. It is said that it is a teacher and nephew, not according to ability, but according to age, after all, I am the same generation as their master, so I call these people teachers and nephews. The advantages of bringing these people are as follows: first, they are familiar with each other and cooperate tacitly; Second, there were no one left in the department at that time, and everyone at the same level as me had a mission, and there were not many elite soldiers and strong generals for me to choose; Thirdly, these people have already been able to stand alone, and at the same time, they also plan to take this opportunity to let them have deeper contact with some shady things underground. These three people are Xu Deyou of Fang Xiandao, how much do you know about Taoism? Seeing that Brother Cao and I looked at ourselves puzzled, the sloppy Taoist asked the two of us, "Quan Zhen and Zhengyi, the others don't know much about each other." I hurriedly answered Wang Daoren's question, "In that case, I will explain some Taoist sects to the two of you descendants while telling the incident." "Chief Xiexie, please drink in a moment." Since Wang Daoren promised to explain the sect of Taoism for the two of us, then I would invite the other party to drink as a quid pro quo, Wang Daoren looked at me for a pleasure, and then shook his head, I don't know if he doesn't want me to invite him to drink, or thinks that the conditions I offer are too naïve, happy to be happy, Wang Daoren still continued: "Strictly speaking, the current Taoism is only divided into Quanzhen Sect and Zhengyi Sect, the difference between the two is that the former is heavy on Qing cultivation, has clear rules and precepts, does not eat meat, does not get married, and does not do things to draw talismans to exorcise ghosts, also do not engage in the feather ascension to immortals and the opening of the altar to pray, mainly self-cultivation, similar to the ancient hermits, mainly to the "Tao Te Ching", "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra", and "Filial Piety Sutra" and other major books; The latter is mainly based on entering the WTO to cultivate the mind, eating and living is no different from ordinary people, can eat meat, can drink, can also marry a wife and have children, Taoism is mainly based on drawing talismans and chanting spells, supplemented by various formations and spells, seeking immortality and feathering into immortals, and opening altars for the people, so immortality and feathering into immortals has become the ultimate goal of Zhengyijiao, mainly to the "Tao Te Ching", "Zhengyi Jing" as the main book. Saying this, Lao Dao took another sip of wine.

But to be honest, what the sloppy Taoist just said, it seems that I know all about it, and I have also talked to Brother Cao, and at the moment we are more interested in Fang Xiandao in the mouth of the royal road, because this is a new thing for the two of us. Lao Dao saw that the two of us did not show that kind of worship, and he could read minds, so after taking a sip of wine, he immediately began to explain to the two of us: "Actually, if you want to talk about juxtaposition, there are two Taoist sects of Zhenda and Taiyi, but at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, these two major sects were merged by one faction, that is, Liu Jushi's current sect. "Oh, whoosh inside! It turned out that the fourth aunt's Zhu You faction also played the routine of big fish eating small fish and small fish eating shrimp.

The fourth aunt coughed and motioned to Wang Daoren to focus on the point. "Quanzhen Sect and Zhengyi Sect are very well distinguished, and it is only a general name for the Taoist sects that the people are familiar with, in fact, there are many sects of Taoism, and Zhengyi Sect is just a general name, but for various reasons, some sects have gradually faded out of the sight of ordinary people, and the Fang Xian Dao I just said is one of them. You should be able to hear of Xu Deyou's ancestor, it is Xu Fu of the Qin Dynasty. After seeing the look of surprise in the eyes of the two of us, Lao Dao smiled and continued to explain: "The ancestor of the Wa Kingdom is Xu Fu, to paraphrase Xu Deyou, this kid, now the emperor of the Wa Kingdom has to call him a grandfather when he sees him. Wang Daoren was obviously caught in the memory, and when he said that the emperor needed to call Grandpa Xu Deyou according to his seniority, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"And the so-called Fang Shi of the folk is actually a person who practices the way of immortals, turning stones into gold and immortality is the goal pursued by this sect, this sect respects the emperor as the ancestor, Lao Tzu is the ancestor of the Tao, and the greatest ability is to ask for divine magic. The second participant is He Shouzhen of Jingming Dao, this sect is a sect that combines Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism to form a sect, which started in the Song Dynasty and ran through the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and the Republic of China period was also quite prosperous, but now it is unified and reformed to the management of a religion, and the pure Ming Dao pursues the concept of pure heart and filial piety, and takes the purification of all sentient beings as its own responsibility, and finally reaches the realm of supreme purity. Because it is a combination of the three cultures, the books of these three cultures are accepted by the Pure Enlightenment Path, and the greatest ability is purification and transcendence. Zuihou is Yin Xingchen of the Wenshi School, the Wenshi School is called the Hidden Immortal School or the Yulong School in Taoism, and the Huashan School and the Louguan School are the three very ancient sects. The origin of the Wenshi faction should be in the Warring States period, at least throughout the history of Yanhuang for more than 2,000 years, it is a very ancient sect, and the biggest ability of this sect is to raise spirit beasts and fight ghosts by ghosts, which is somewhat similar to the method of curing diseases in Zhuyou. "The sloppy Taoist said three Taoist sects that we are not familiar with in one breath, looking at the meaning of the old Tao, if it wasn't for the fact that there were only three people at that time, he could explain us a lot of related knowledge.

The fourth aunt seems to be the first time to listen to the sloppy Taoist explain this knowledge, and the listening is also relishing, waiting for the old Taoist to drink, suddenly remembered that the two of us may not have eaten dinner, so hurriedly asked the fourth aunt to go to the kitchen to give us hot dishes. The fourth uncle got up very reluctantly and went to the kitchen to heat up food for a few of us, alas! The absolute matrilineal clan of the fourth aunt's family, poor fourth aunt!!

to be continued