"Taixiaolang Shujing" notes: "The pedestrian avenue is called a Taoist priest." The body and mind are reasonable, only the Tao is followed, and the Tao is the thing, so he is called the Taoist. ”

"Louguan Benji" records: the name of the Taoist priest began in the time of King Mu of Zhou, King Mu of Zhou is still Huang Lao, with Eucommia as a teacher, chasing down the relics, constructing the altar of worship, convening the Quartet of secluded people, to Shao Xuanye, "the court and the opposition with its propagation of Taoism, so the Taoist priest as the number."

"Lao Tzu Xiang'er Note" notes: "Taoists who have immortal longevity do not walk in corpses."

"Taishang Taizhen Kejing" records: "At the beginning of the opening, the holy and true immortals all preached the Tao Qi, passed down the legislation, and the same sect was Taishang, all called bachelors, and took the Tao as a thing, so they were called Taoists." Taoism is meritorious, so he is called a Taoist priest. Taoist priests, take the Tao as a thing. ”

"Shengxuan Sutra" records: "The husband is only virtuous and the layman, everything is opposed. Don't look at it, don't be surprised. The ears do not listen to slander, nor to the voices of chaos. The nose is not fragrant, fragrant and fishy. If you don't taste sweetness in your mouth, you will offend all sentient beings. The heart does not want to desire, and the wealth is gorgeous. The hands are not used for adultery, and the feet are not evil. This is a Taoist traveler. ”

Male Taoist priests are called "dry roads", also known as feathers, real people, immortals, Taoists, plumes, feather clothes, Ziyang, Fangshi, Huangguan, Mr., Xiyi, etc., and are called Taoists, and female Taoists are called "Kun Dao", also known as women's crowns. The "Three Caves Cultivators" divides the Taoist priests into nine types, including the Taoist priests of the Cave God Department, the Taoist priests of the Gao Xuan Department, and the Taoist priests of the Shengxuan Department, and the female Taoist priests into eight types, such as the female official of the Zhengyi League, the female official of the cave god, and the female official of the Gao Xuan Department, which is divided according to the rank of the Taoist priest. There are six types of Taoist priests in the "Three Caves of Worship and Taoism": one is a naïve Taoist, two is a fairy Taoist, three is a mountain dwelling Taoist, four is a monk Taoist, five is a lay Taoist, and six is a sacrificial wine Taoist.

There is a small temple in Dongshan, there is a Taoist priest about forty years old who lives in it, this Taoist temple has existed for a long time, but it has always been a broken view that no one cares about, until the Taoist priest stays, but no one nearby knows when the Taoist priest came, as if it fell from the sky.

At about five o'clock in the morning, the sky was just dawning, the old man walked on the path at the foot of the mountain, and suddenly saw a figure flash in front of him and went straight to the mountain. The old man was a little surprised, and in the blink of an eye, this person walked so fast, and when he went home, he told his neighbors and friends what he had seen.

After that, everyone knew that the Taoist temple on the mountain had a Taoist priest, and some people deliberately went to the foot of the mountain in the morning to meet the Taoist priest, and they could also see him, although the Taoist priest did not talk to people, but he smiled politely after seeing people. Slowly, the Taoist temple on the mountain was better and better taken care of by Taoist priests, and the villagers who lived nearby would occasionally give some money for food, drink and incense.

People die like lights out, but the people of the country still look very seriously at the things after death, every Qingming season, whether it is a wanderer who is far away or a farmer who sticks to the land, it is punctual and punctual to carry out the ritual of sacrificing the ancestors.

Unfortunately, it happened to rain heavily during the Qingming Festival this year, and the difference from usual was that the rain was getting heavier and heavier, fortunately there were no casualties, but many graves in the mountains were scattered by the heavy rain. Qingming is about to sacrifice is important, there is really no other way, the people nearby can only get together to discuss the solution, after a discussion, we decided to invite the Taoist priest in the Taoist temple to see. Soon, the person sent to tell the Taoist priest about the situation, and after understanding the cause and effect and the needs of the people, the Taoist priest asked the older generation in the village to bring a few young men up the mountain to check the condition of their graves, and gather the scattered bones.

The mountains were muddy after the heavy rain, except for weeds and dead trees covered with rain, the handwriting on those mound bags and some old stone tablets was basically unreadable, and the mess washed by the rain made it look like a mess. The Taoist priest quietly looked at the mirrors around him, and then explained that the people who came together were grouped separately, and after the grouping was completed, the Taoist priest asked everyone to stand by first, waiting for him to calm the frightened souls first.

Then I saw the Taoist priest take out a bag of things in his satchel, spread it on the ground, pressed a copper coin at each of the four corners, and placed a small gold and copper incense burner in the middle, and then the Taoist priest took out three incense sticks from his arms. After burning incense and kowtowing three times, the Taoist priest took out a palm-sized bronze gossip compass from his arms, and after a while, he saw the Taoist priest pointing one by one in the group of graves in front of him, and told which group of people to dig here and which group of people to dig there. Then people began to dig, and what is amazing is that every time they dig a skull, they must first come out of the skull, and when each skull comes out, the Taoist priest has to babble a few words, and then write something on the paper, and stick it on the bone after writing.

In this way, everyone spent a whole day to re-bury all the scattered graves and bones in the mountain as they were, and the ancestral graves of hundreds of families and hundreds of burial tombs were all seen one by one, without any mistakes. An elderly man was frightened, so he asked the Taoist priest, you are not a local, how do you know where there is a grave of which family, and which grave belongs to which old man, and the Taoist priest only replied lightly.

"Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, these people have all stood on top of their respective skulls after my communication, stretching out their hands to recognize their own doors, so it is so smooth."

Everyone was very shocked after hearing this, the Taoist priest was not good-looking under the appearance of such a deep Taoism, for a while, everyone was overjoyed, and wanted to set up a banquet to thank the Taoist priest, but he refused.

As the saying goes, people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, and there is always a person in a hundred people who has an improper mind, and the Taoist priest's powerful methods have attracted the attention of a young man. Young people usually eat, drink, prostitute and gamble everything, and when they have no money, they will do some things like stealing chickens and dogs, and the gossip compass of the copper coin incense burner fiddled with by the Taoist priest makes him salivate, and he thinks that this must be a valuable antique. After making up his mind, the young man's eyes rolled and he stared at the back of the Taoist priest in the crowd, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly and smiled evilly.

At night, the only moonlight was quickly obscured by patches of clouds, and the big trees and tall grass in the mountains automatically rose up without wind, making a slight sound of "swish", and a black shadow sneakily walked towards the mountain. After a short time, the black shadow came to the wall of the Taoist temple, and after confirming that there was no one on the left and right, the black shadow skillfully turned over the wall, and after glancing at the faint light of the fire in the temple, the black shadow jumped down from the wall and touched the window in two steps. After listening to the silence all around, the shadow crept in through the window, and as soon as he entered the room, he saw several items on the table.

"Ha~ It doesn't take any effort to get here."

The dark shadow sighed to himself, reached out and picked up the things on the table, turned his head and left, but as soon as he stepped out of the door, he saw the Taoist priest who was about to enter. The black shadow panicked instantly, and occasionally for petty theft, he would carry a short knife with him to strengthen his courage, so as to scare and scare the other party when he encountered a good scare that could not be handled, so he subconsciously pulled out the knife and compared it in front of the Taoist priest.

"Cough~ Stinky Taoist priests, acquaintances, get out of here!"

The Taoist priest didn't say a word, just looked at the black shadow with an expressionless face, the eyes seemed to be able to see everything, see through the ghosts and gods, the black shadow was hairy in the heart, and it didn't last long to go crazy The Taoist priest desperately stabbed. When he reacted, the Taoist priest had fallen to the ground covered in blood, looking at the Taoist priest lying on the ground without breathing, the black shadow hurriedly fled down the mountain.

The next day, an old man walked on the road at the foot of the mountain, and a Taoist priest in a gray cloth robe came to him.

The avenue is regular and irregular, the earliest Taoist Qingfeng Dao bones still go down the mountain from time to time to help the world, but with the rapid development of society, these Taoist priests with real skills have returned to the wilderness, for no other reason, the ghost is not more evil than the human heart.