What exactly is the red pill is is also a controversial issue.

Some people believe that Li Kezhuo's "red pill" is a red lead pill, an ordinary aphrodisiac. Aphrodisiacs belong to hot medicines, and the emperor is cold and cold, and he uses fire to make water, which is the right medicine. Li Kezhuo used aphrodisiacs as tonics, just to follow in Tao Zhongwen's footsteps, but he had bad luck......

Some people believe that the red pill is the alchemy pill of Taoism. Use life-saving golden pills to deal with dying patients, if you are cured, you will gain fame and fortune, and if you die, you will be seriously ill and difficult to cure, Li Kezhuo is likely to want to do this.

According to Taoism, the red pill is of course a Taoist alchemy pill.

Jin Dan, an ancient Chinese term for alchemy. There are two types: outer dan and inner dan are included. Waidan is a yellow medicinal gold (Huandan) made by smelting dansha (red mercury sulfide) and lead, sulfur and other raw materials, and its finished product is called Jindan [1]. Taoism believes that after taking it, people can become immortals and live forever. Before the Tang Dynasty, Jindan mostly referred to Waidan. After the Tang and Song dynasties, it mostly refers to the cultivation of Neidan, that is, the human body is used as a furnace, the essence and qi in the body are used as medicines, and the gods are used to smelt Taoism, which believes that the essence, qi and spirit can be condensed to form a holy fetus, and then it can be reborn into immortals. Jin Dan was originally a term for Wai Dan Technique. It refers to the elixir refined by alchemists using certain mineral raw materials, also known as "elixir", which is believed to be immortal after taking it. Neidanshu borrows the word Jindan to refer to Neidan.

There is a golden pill recipe. True intentions come from true knowledge, and gnosis also responds to itself. The three of them are one family, and the body and mind are stable. The empty room is full of light, and the sun is restored in the quiet. Pick and exercise diligently, and turn into purple gold cream. The spiritual wisdom is born, and the sex is now dusty. The pearl of the night is bright and clean everywhere. Noise turns into authenticity, and people's hearts change their hearts. If it weren't forged by divine fire, how would the gold be divided in the mine?

There is also the Jindan theory. The golden one is a strong and eternal thing, and the Dan one is a perfect and pure thing. Gu Immortal borrowed the name of Jin Dan to metaphorize the nature of the original true spirit. This sex is called Taiji in Confucianism, Yuanjue in Interpretation, and Jindan in Taoism. Although the name is divided into three, it is actually one thing. Confucianism is holy, Buddha is Buddha, and Taoism is immortal. The saints of the three religions all regard the original nature as the foundation of enlightenment. Fools don't know, or those who use hardware and eight stones to refine medicine into a golden pill are not, and the true nature is refined and matured by fire in the great furnace, and it lasts for a long time with heaven and earth, and is as bright as the sun and the moon.

Since the late Tang Dynasty, the convergence of the three religions has become the general trend of the development of Chinese culture. Confucianism and Taoism are not immune to the influence of Buddhism, especially Zen Buddhism, which has been integrated with Chinese culture. Zhongliquan's Neidanxue cannot but take the integration with Zen Buddhism as the basic line of its development. Neidan and Zen, in the basic principle of practice "no thought", there is a lot in common, "Zhong Lu Ecclesiastical Collection" to the Buddhist term "vacuum" as the key point of cultivation, there is a cloud: "If you have no thought with absolute thought, it is for the true thought, the true thought is for the vacuum, and the vacuum is a realm, which is the gradual detachment from the faint and detached towards the true migration." Lu Dongbin, the disciple of Zhong Liquan, took the integration of Zen and Taoism as the basic characteristics of his inner Dan theory. It is rumored that Lu Zeng participated in the Huanglong Zen Master, and since then he has been deeply convinced of Zen Buddhism, advocating Zen and Taoism. His "Song of Knocking on the Song" and other summaries of the outline of the Inner Dan as "the dual cultivation of life", the cultivation of nature refers to the clear insight of the mind, and the so-called heart-derived sea of Zen Buddhism; Single cultivation or single cultivation of life is lost in bias, single cultivation without cultivation of life, "ten thousand calamities of yin spirit is difficult to enter the sainthood", single cultivation of life without cultivation, "just like the mirror of appreciation without treasure", only the double cultivation of life is stable. This so-called dual cultivation of life actually contains the meaning of Zen and Neidan dual cultivation, or the study of Zen Buddhism on the basis of Neidan cultivation. Lu Dongbin's idea of double cultivation and dual integration of Zen and Taoism became the basic line for the development of Neidanxue in later generations. After the Northern Song Dynasty, almost all of the Inner Dan scholars originated from Lu Dongbin. The Inner Dan Study, which is a double cultivation of life and a double integration of Zen and Taoism, has matured to Zhang Boduan of the Northern Song Dynasty. Zhang Boduan first wrote the Dan Ci of "Wu Zhen Chapter", giving full play to the traditional Dan method of Zhong Lu lineage, and then studied Zen Buddhism and wrote "Zen Poems" to explain the things of the heart, as a sequel to "Wu Zhen Chapter". The "Wuzhen Chapter" (including the sequel) is recognized as the most influential and highest-level Neidan writing after the "Zhou Yi Shen Tong Deed", and there are dozens of ancient and modern commentaries. In general, the Neidan thought that Lu Dongbin learned after the study was further influenced by Zen Buddhism and Lixue as its basic characteristics. Although the word "life" is used as the theoretical outline, most of them attach more importance to the cultivation of nature than to the cultivation of life. Zhang Boduan's "Afterword to the Enlightenment of Truth" emphasizes that "those who want to be a husband and reach the Tao, if they know their own heart", and they take the so-called "origin of emptiness" in Zen Buddhism as the destination of internal refining. Wang Hao's "Jindan Poems" is called "the original true nature is called Jindan", emphasizing that practice must first recognize the mind, and its method of knowing the mind and insight must be "pure", which is quite close to the "non-thoughtless action" of Zen Buddhism.

Jin Dan has the effect of immortality and cures diseases...... That's just overkill. (To be continued......)