Chapter 33 A Wangwu Mountain, Half of the History of Taoism
Osmanthus floating jade, the first moon is full of heavenly streets, and the night is as cool as washing.
Chang'an City on the ninth day of June is not as refreshing as August 15, and the hot sky fire stirs the floating people's hearts, and there is a tendency to be out of control at any time.
The wind is cold, and the people are in the Crystal Palace.
The snake and dragon are sloppy, watching the saga, and the ethereal sheng song is boiling. Frost is everywhere, wanting to fly across the clouds.
At that time, the singers on the Hanyuan Hall of Daming Palace were dancing on the curve at the moment, and with those ethereal illusions, they were beautiful, but it was like they were about to fly. The slightly different one is the Guanghan Palace in the sky, and the other is the Daming Palace underground.
As the most luxurious court dance in the Tang Dynasty, "The Song of Neon Clothes and Feathers" is so famous that it is not weak at all compared to the Tang Dynasty Iron Cavalry. One main killing, one main pleasure, are all the proud works of Emperor Xuanzong. It has been one hundred and thirty-eight years since the Tang Dynasty was started by Gao Zu and passed to him Li Longji, and more than a dozen emperors and thousands of Ming ministers and fierce generals have cultivated these million lions, annexed the Eight Desolations, and destroyed countless countries.
All the people inside and outside, anyone who dares to call a soldier will be killed!
The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister!
Xuanzong later reigned for decades, surrounded by neighbors, not to mention that someone dared to take the initiative to provoke the Tang Dynasty, even if he coughed loudly, he had to be nervous about the invincibility of the Tang Dao.
The universe is full of things, the cycle repeats, the cycle repeats, this is the way!
The Tao is the greatest and most fundamental, and as long as there is this heaven and earth, we must follow this rule. From the luck of a country to the emperor and the common people, they can't escape this fixed number. It's just that some people will use this fixed number, and some people won't, so people have three, six, nine, and so on, and it's not all unkind to heaven and earth.
Gaozong is like this, Taizong is like this, the empress is like this, and he Li Longji is even more so!
So from the day he was born, Li Longji understood that he was born with the trend, and he was destined to take advantage of this momentum and follow the will of heaven to achieve the avenue! He has huge ambitions, he wants to live, he wants to be a prince, he wants to be an emperor, he wants to become a famous king through the ages! Therefore, Li Sanlang, who took power at the age of twenty-seven, spent forty-four years to create the most brilliant glory of the Tang Dynasty!
Prosperity and decline, the moon is full of waxing and waning.
"Dao" is irreversible after all, when Li Longji's power and prestige reached an unprecedented position, the inflated Li Sanlang decided to go against the sky, he didn't believe in the Taishi Bureau's criticism of him, he didn't believe that he was so powerful but so short-lived, he wanted to change his life against the sky, my life was up to me, the earth was already invincible, and he only had to fight with the sky.
At the age of forty, he paid an incalculable price and changed his fortune once, and that time he succeeded. No matter what the cost, at least he's alive and well. Since that time, he has no such deep awe for those true and false criticisms, and with the luck of the emperor in the world, the avenue has to stand aside! This is my majesty, my world!
Therefore, in the eyes of Li Longji now, whether it is the rigorous and profound officials in the Taishi Bureau, or those idle clouds and wild cranes who come and go, he doesn't look down on them very much, and the longer he lives, the less awe he feels. The immortals that Li Bai had never seen in his life were too ordinary for him. Looking for immortals, right? I have more than a dozen in the court, and there are hundreds outside the court, will I tell you? Joke!
"Oh? It turns out that the three Aiqing are going to visit my Taoist brother Bai Yunzi! β
Hearing the emperor's affirmative answer, Gao Shi was overjoyed, it seems that the emperor is really interested in this immortal theory, and he actually recognized Baiyunzi Immortal as a Taoist brother! He has to manage this line well!
"Your Majesty, it is a generation of immortal master Bai Yunzi!"
Gao Shi paused, and then said:
"Brother Li has been very respectful of this Sima Zhenren all the way, and bluntly said that the real person has an excellent demeanor and is the most first-class land immortal. The two ministers knew that Brother Li was proud, and he could be so worshipped, this real person was definitely a first-class immortal! β
His Majesty the Emperor smiled and said nothing, sipping wine and continuing to listen to Gao Shi's report. As a superior person, he knows too many secrets about this Wangwu Mountain, which is extremely heavy in Taoism!
A Wangwu Mountain, half of the history of Taoism!
This mountain is not only the birthplace of the creation culture of the human race, but also the birthplace of Chinese Taoist culture, and has been praised as the "source of Chinese culture" by celebrities and scholars of all dynasties. From the ancient ancestor god Pangu first opened the heaven and earth yin and yang, Fuxi pushed the Tai Chi to play gossip here to open the road of human evolution, and then there was Nuwa refining stone to make up the sky, and then the Chinese ancestor Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor was also on this mountain to open an altar to the sky to receive the first "Tao" one of the ways to open the "road", the meritorious Dayu who controlled the water was also sacrificed in this mountain, and later successfully enlightened Lao Tzu, but also in this mountain to get the true transmission of the point, in order to unify the entire Taoist thought, for the later generations of "Huang Laozhixue" opened the home page, this is the future generations of Taoism one life two,.
Until he Li Longji is in charge of the world, there will always be no shortage of true gods on this mountain, and the head of the ten cave heavens is not in vain! Whether it is the Yellow Emperor who inherited the past and the future, or Lao Tzu who reopened the world, until the later Hua Gai Jun, Liezi, Shangshan Sihao, Zhang Liang, Heshang Gong, alchemy patriarch Wei Boyang, Yu Ji, Ge Hong, etc., have all practiced in Wangwu Mountain, as well as the amazing and brilliant two immortal grandmothers Wei Huacun, how many immortals are in a copy of "Huang Ting Jing"! Wangwu Mountain is also favored by heaven and earth, full of aura, Zhong Lingyu is beautiful, and fairy fruits and herbs are unique. From Shennong's tasting of herbs, the Yellow Emperor's "Neijing", to Lao Tzu and Ge Hong's alchemy, Sun Simiao wrote "Qianjin Yifang" here, and Wangwushan is a living pill furnace. "The grass is blessed with medicine", Wangwu Mountain has 10,000-year-old Tai Sui, 1,000-year-old kudzu, 100-year-old Polygonum multiflori, Tiantan Ganoderma lucidum, Sanchun chicken head ginseng, Dongling grass and so on, etc., and so on. When the local people are sick, they go up the mountain to collect medicine, and when they go home to make soup, they have miraculous effects.
Compared with these familiar stories, for him Li Longji himself, Wang Wushan has his biggest secret. He, the human emperor, is on this mountain!
"Wangwu Mountain, I haven't been up for many years!"
His Majesty the Emperor seems to recall the memories of his prime, reminiscing about that mountain and missing those people. Although 31 years have passed, Li Longji still rarely throbs when he thinks of the scene that penetrated the heavens and the earth at the beginning, you must know that when the Xuanwumen coup d'Γ©tat, he faced such a dangerous situation, he did not panic, you must know that he was only 25 years old that year.
"There is calm in every big event!"
This is the criticism that the dragon-like Li Chunfeng gave him decades ago, and this criticism is indeed accurate, Li Longji is indeed a very calm and stable emperor. The only exception is Feng Chan Taishan at the age of forty.
"Your Majesty, Wangwu Mountain is really a strange place, Xia Chen and his party encountered a strange thing at the foot of Wang Wu Mountain, this matter didn't feel so amazing at the time, but after looking back, the more I recalled, the more I felt that it was not simple, so Xia Chen can basically assert that the day he met was definitely an immortal!"
After that, Gao Shi carefully described the encounter of that day to the emperor in its original form.
On that day, the autumn was high and cool, and Li Bai Dufu was very interested in the three days, because they had come to the realm of Wangwu Shenshan, one of the ancestral courts of Taoism. You can faintly see the Taoist temples with red walls and golden tiles on the top of the mountain, which is really a fairyland!
Early in the morning, Li Dugao and the three of them burned incense and bathed, arranged for the servants to make a meal, and after eating, they took the carefully purchased incense tribute and went straight to Wangwu Mountain, because it is adjacent to Xianshan, the foot of the mountain naturally formed a rather prosperous market, and there is a river under the mountain surrounding, which is one of the famous four desecrations. Jidu is the most magical, the most mysterious, and the most sacred in the "four desecrations" of the river, river, Huai, and Ji, and later because Li Longji wanted to plan here, he built a magnificent Jidu temple here in accordance with the suggestions of Sima Chengzhen and Ye Fashan. This temple has the largest building scale and the highest sacrificial specifications, and was named the highest dojo of the royal worship of the water god by Li Longji. Jishui originated in Wangwu Mountain, with "flat springs, three ups and downs" on behalf of the noble humanistic spirit of honesty, humility, loyalty and perseverance, and has been praised by countless Ming monarchs, historians and cultural celebrities. It is rumored that Jishui originated from Taiyi Pond on Wangwu Mountain in Jiyuan. The source water underflows more than 70 miles to the east with the underground river, gushes out to the ground of Jidu and Longtan, forms two rivers of pearl and dragon to the east, and does not go out of the source of Jijiang to converge into a river, called the water, to the northwest of Wenxian County, the first name is Jishui. After the second undercurrent underground, through the Yellow River without muddy, in Xingyang again miraculously surfaced to the ground, when the water flows through Yuanyang, Nanji three times ambush to Shandong Dingtao, and the North Ji rendezvous to form a giant Yeze, Jishui three hidden three appeared, a hundred folds into the sea, mysterious and unpredictable.
Anyone who wants to climb Wangwu Mountain has to cross it by boat. That day, when Li Dugao and the three of them came to the ferry by car, it was already sunrise in the east, and the morning sun was sprinkled on the clear river, restrained and kind. The sound of the wind, the sound of the water, the chirping of birds and insects, the noisy shouting of mules, horses and pedestrians, a good picture of endless life. Li Bai has always been a wandering appearance, so the noise of fireworks sounds to him, vivid but floating, this feeling occupies his heart, as if all the hustle and bustle has gone away.
I don't know if it's because things here are so pleasant, or because being in such a fairy land, Li Bai was nourished by the fairy qi and forgot the embarrassment of being "given gold back" for a while. As the sun gets higher and higher, so do the pedestrians at the ferry. Li Bai's servants also asked the merchant to buy a ticket to cross the river, and the three of them sat down at a nearby tea shop, asked for some wine, food, and scenery and chatted and waited for the ferry.
At this moment, there was a faint sound of people in the distance, as if there was some bustle, this bustle from far to near, and in a blink of an eye, it arrived at the ferry. Li Bai and the others were also curious, and when they looked up, they turned out to be five brightly dressed green-robed monks. These five monks were tall, imposing, generous, and red-faced. The leader was about fifty in appearance, white-faced, and peaceful, and was directing the attendants who accompanied him, carefully placing some bags and gifts on the steps of the ferry. The servant porters listened to the bell-like commands, and went about their work cautiously. The remaining four monks were younger, in their twenties and thirties, and looked like disciples, surrounding the great monk, while waiting, occasionally giving a few orders, but none of them helped.
The pedestrians and merchants on the dock looked at this line, obviously from a big place, they didn't see those people wearing so bright and bright, green robes and gold-edged high-quality materials, they were all flat-headed people, wearing either black shirts or blue robes, gray heads and dirty faces, and their voices couldn't help but be quieter than usual, for fear of being disgusted by those monks, they couldn't help but stay away, but out of curiosity, they surrounded a few monks. Those monks seemed to have seen too many such scenes, although their faces did not change, but they despised these country buns even more in their hearts, and their voices couldn't help but be a few degrees higher.
After being so busy for a while, before the ferry arrived, the four monk disciples hugged the big monk and came to Li Bai's tea shop! This tea shop is the biggest and certainly the best. The owner of the shop was not worried about the guys' hairy hands, and personally came to serve a few monks, with light hands and feet, laughing together, "Buddha, Buddha" salutation. The Buddha didn't put on a show, and talked with compassion on his face, but he didn't want to drink the new tea brewed in the store.
After accompanying him for a while, the great monk only cared about talking to his disciples, and the shopkeeper knew that his status was low and he couldn't enter the Buddha's eyes, so he confessed his guilt and retreated. There are not many people in the teahouse, Li Bai's clothes are obviously higher than ordinary people, and his face is ruddy and full, and his appearance is extraordinary, definitely not an ordinary person. The old monk used the method of observing qi and looking at luck, and vaguely swept over Li Bai and the three of them, and faintly felt that the three of them were all people with extremely strong luck, one like a cloud, one like a mountain, and one like water. Such a strong sense of luck that even his master did not have! These three people are definitely not ordinary people, and the great monk immediately became friends!
Li Bai and the three of them are not cultivators, and they don't know the method of observing qi and looking at luck, so they naturally don't know that the noble green-clothed monk has regarded the three of them as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at this moment, and only occasionally looks at each other with interest and curiosity! Li Bai has been in Beijing for many years, and he has never seen anyone, red-skinned, white-skinned, black-skinned, curly-haired, white-haired, yellow-haired all kinds of Fanbang barbarians, all kinds of demons and monsters have been seen, not to mention a few big monks. Even the first person in Zen Buddhism, Master Li Bai, has also seen it, this is rumored to be the reincarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva, but the great monk is not as good as the great monk at this moment, and he has a sense of displeasure for this great monk in his heart. As for Du Fu and Gao Shi, although they felt that these monks were a little arrogant, they did not feel bad.
The monk had the intention to show off, and when he saw that there were many people in the shop, he unconsciously taught his disciples, and after listening to it for a while, it turned out to be a very profound paragraph of "Five Ancestors Passing on the Law". It is said that before his death, the Fifth Patriarch Hongren knew that although he had many disciples, there were few people who could really propagate the Dharma. He said to Xuanho; "I have taught countless people in my life; The good ones die, and those who preach the word after me can only have ten ears." These ten people are Shenxiu, Zhixu, Liu Zhuji, Huizang, Xuanyue, Lao'an, Faru, Huineng, Zhide and Yifang. Among these ten people, the most prominent and influential are Shenxiu and Huineng. However, the ancestor of Zen Buddhism can only have one person, so Hongren is looking for the heir of the law, and he is ordered to present a side to show his enlightenment. At that time, the god of the throne said: "The body is a Bodhi tree, and the heart is like a mirror." Always wipe diligently, don't make dust". Huineng said: "Bodhi has no tree, the mirror is not a platform, there is nothing originally, where to stir up dust."
When Li Bai heard that this great monk dared to teach his apprentice such profound knowledge in such a large public, he couldn't help but be very curious, could it be that he had misunderstood this monk, and there was something in his shiny brain. Just listened to it for a while, Li Bai couldn't help but want to laugh a little, this monk, first told the story, and memorized these two Buddha verses, as for the profound wisdom in the Buddha's verses, but it was never explained, Dong Laxi talked for a long time, one time there was no phase of the original phase, one moment of emptiness changed color, only heard the disciples and onlookers of the clouds and mountains fog cover, scratching their heads, the more they listened, the more they listened, but the heart was more and more admired. Look, this is great wisdom, this is the profundity of the Dharma, this is the reincarnation of the Buddha, Amitabha! Good, good, good!
The more Li Bai listened, the more disdainful he became, and the more he listened, the more he wanted to laugh, but later, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he deliberately laughed out loud, and cheered loudly:
"Wonderful! Wonderful! Hahaha"
The monk was fooling everyone with a patchwork, while secretly looking at the situation at Li Bai's table, seeing that Li Bai and the others were really attracted to him, he couldn't help but feel even more proud, and the more he talked, the more energetic he became, don't you see that the people at that table were applauded by themselves, seeing that the goal had been achieved, the big monk also put away the performance, and looked at Li Bai and the others with laughter.
Although the people who listened to the Fa in the tea shop were dizzy, they were all atmospheric and did not dare to come out, and the noisy tea shop in the past was now a pin drop. Li Bai's applause immediately attracted everyone's attention, they all looked at it blankly, muttering in their hearts, and wondering why this person was laughing?
The great monk didn't say anything, the shelf still had to be held, but the disciples under his command had to figure out their thoughts, and at that moment one person understood, stood up, and gave a Buddha salute in the direction of Li Bai and the others, and then asked with a serious face:
"I wonder why this donor is laughing?"
It sounds polite and ordinary, but the tone is cold, and there is a commanding posture. In the eyes of this disciple who spoke up, this sentence can be regarded as convergent. The man who laughed was tall, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, his expression was elegant, although his appearance was not very handsome, but the elegance of the literati was excellent, and a long sword hung from his waist, which added to him a chivalrous and heroic momentum. Obviously, this is not a framed object, maybe it is a murder weapon that has drunk blood. Although with the prominent position of the sect behind him, he may not be afraid of this person, but the hero does not suffer the loss in front of him, and the master is in front of him, so he can't rashly cause disaster. This place is the first cave of Taoism, and it is not good to cause something wrong, and the strong dragon has not suppressed the head snake on the ground, so the monk has only collected his temperament, and just questioned in a cold voice.
Who is Li Bainai? The top talent who can call the emperor's royal bed to give a banquet and make a spoon with his hands will weaken this little bald donkey who is strong and strong in terms of momentum. didn't return the gift at the moment, so he replied so salty:
"Laugh if you want, what are you doing?"
The crowd of onlookers at the tea shop was a little unhappy when they saw that both sides were a little unhappy, and immediately took a few steps back, but they were not in a hurry to leave, and they let the opening scene look at the lively rhythm. Du Fu listened to Li Bai's words, afraid that he would suffer, so he hurriedly got up to make peace, the big monk was originally going to make friends with a few people, but he didn't expect his apprentice to be stupid as a pig, or the usual high-spirited posture, he felt that it was going to be bad, and it was really bad. The monk was about to think about how to redeem it, when he saw that someone on the other side said peace, he could only stand up, reprimanded his disciple a few words, and was ready to talk to make friends. Unexpectedly, the man with the sword on the other side was persuaded by his friend, but he didn't respond, turned around again, and didn't pay any more attention. The green-robed monk's interest was interrupted, and he was angry in his heart, and when he saw that there was no result, he also sat down again and stopped making a sound.
As soon as the audience in the teahouse saw that the two sides were gone, it was estimated that the excitement would not be able to be seen, so they slowly dispersed, busy with their own things. The great monk originally wanted to make friends with these people, but when Li Bai ridiculed him like this, he naturally didn't think about it anymore, but the more he thought about it, the more unhappy he became, and he always wanted to find an opportunity to pay tribute to the other party.
After a while, the ferry came, and there were four men in uniform uniforms at the ferry who commanded people to get on the boat. These four people are the disciples of the secular sect under the balcony palace of the Qing faction on Wangwu Mountain, and they have learned some boxing skills, because this place is under the jurisdiction of the balcony palace by the imperial court, so the government has not sent troops to dominate, and the management of public security within a radius of dozens of miles is controlled by these outer forces. These outer gates of the balcony palace recruit professors, and the disciples learn something and then work for the sect, renting fields and shops to transport these revenues, part of which is handed over to the balcony palace, and part of which is used for their own use, ensuring that the people under the mountain live and work in peace and contentment, and the cultivators on the mountain are not disturbed by the red dust and vulgar things.
Merchant ships are generally large ships that cross the border, temporarily dock, carry people to the bottom of the mountains on the opposite bank around the rapids, collect a quick money, and hurry away. Li Bai and a few people got on the boat with the flow of people, and the monks also got on the boat, and the servant porter carefully arranged the bags and gift boxes and stood aside, waiting carefully. Half an hour later, everyone was on board, and for a while, the mules, horses, cattle, sheep, pots, cans, and bags on the merchant ship were mixed together, and they were messy. Those monks were full of disgust, and they hid as far away as possible, with a posture of not approaching the living. It's a pity that the ferry boat is not big, and the monks have nothing to hide, so they just want to leave the boat as soon as possible to stay away from here.
Li Bai is much more free and easy, born to be familiar, and soon mingles with these rural people, pointing out the country and the country, and is full of spirit! Those monks couldn't get used to Li Bai being so proud, and one of them couldn't help but make sarcastic remarks.
"It turns out that he is a dusty master, but he is just a layman who has nothing to show for himself, which is really a bad act of that good skin! What a pity, pity! β