Sanfeng faction: The sect of Taoist Inner Dan cultivation. It was founded by Zhang Sanfeng in the Yuan and Ming dynasties. Zhang Sanfeng, year of birth and death and place of birth are unknown. Li Xiyue of the Qing Dynasty determined that Zhang Sanfeng's name was Quanyi, the word Sanfeng, and he was from Liaoyang. Qing Wang Xiling believes that he was born in the Yuan Dynasty during the reign of Dingzong. The Sanfeng Dan method integrates the characteristics of the Wenshi Dan method and the Shaoyang Dan method, and has become a significant feature with quiet yin and yang, double cultivation and double cultivation. Sanfeng Dan method is to focus on the cultivation of the mind and quietness, "Xuanji Straight Talk": "Fu kung fu to start, can not be obsessed with doing, promising are acquired, today's way, more flow of this disadvantage, so the world is rare and true; This way is not good, because the way is not clear. The first skill is to extinguish the relationship, sweep away distracting thoughts, and removing distracting thoughts is the first work to build a foundation and refine oneself. "Xuan Yao Jian: Taoist Love Song": "Before refining the pill, the first to refine the nature, without cultivating the great medicine and cultivating the mind." The heart cultivates the natural Dan and believes in itself, and the nature is pure and natural medicinal materials. Zhang Sanfeng emphasized the combination of doing and doing nothing in the process of cultivating Dan, but Wuwei refers to "the way to get Dan, the work of rebirth and deification", and there is "not the art of taking war and suction, the method of shaking Jiuyi, but the way of quiet nothingness, guarding the female and not the male, the silence and the immobility, and the feeling is passed". It can be said that most of Zhang Sanfeng's major treatises such as "On the Great Dao", "Xuanji Straight Talk", and "Xuanyao Chapter" all talk about the Qingjing Dan Law. It is only in "The Rootless Tree" and the "Complete Works" conjugated by later generations that there is a yin and yang cultivation method. "The Tao of the Rootless Tree": "The rootless tree, the flower is biased, and the Yin and Yang Dao is incomplete." Gold separates wood, mercury separates lead, yang and yin are lonely on one side. In the world, male and female are matched with women, and children are born and passed down from generation to generation. Be obedient. Reverse is immortal, only upside down in the middle. He also said, "A woman who has no husband is a resentful woman, and a man who has no wife is a widow." Sigh the lost disciple, too vague, meditate and cultivate alone, and the qi is dry. This is a clear advocate of reversing the cultivation of yin and yang, and planting and taking each other. However, "The Rootless Tree" also advocates double cultivation without "committing adultery", "committing adultery loses the treasure of immortality, and wine and meat penetrate the intestines in the heart". Although this is a kind of superior Dan method of the double cultivation school, it combines purity and double cultivation as a whole, which is different from the so-called "three peaks" lower Dan method. Zhang Sanfeng wrote a lot, and Li Xiyue of the Qing Dynasty published "The Complete Works of Zhang Sanfeng", but it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity. It is generally believed that several works such as "The Great Road", "Mystery Straight Talk", and "Mystery Chapter" are more true.

Three Peaks School: Taoist Inner Dan School of Cultivation. Developed from intraventricular surgery. It was named after Pu Yangzi's "Three Peaks Danjue", which was once flourishing in the Ming Dynasty. This sect cultivates the main maiden to collect war, and practices the muddy water pill method of collecting people's essence, which has always been considered to be a side door evil art. This school of cultivation begins with building a foundation and refining oneself, simmering in the furnace to cast a sword, extracting and replenishing the middle scriptures, refining and refining in Zhoutian, and finally silently using it and using it softly, and obtaining medicine to extract it. The steps of action are complicated, there are heel breath refining qi, gas gathering switch, gold and jade refining, holding the yuan and nourishing the void; there are also the selection of the tripod, the time to use the tripod (among which there are the use of breaking the tripod, the middle tripod, the old tripod, and the difference between the nine tripod methods), subduing the dragon and subduing the tiger, the wonderful use of the sword, chasing the qi and blood, capturing the real lead, transforming yin and yang; and the reversal of creation, the jade liquid to take the life, the gold liquid to return the pill, facing the wall, rebirth, out of the mind and so on. It is also equipped with a complete set of recipes, such as the recipe for sealing the essence, the recipe for returning the essence, the recipe for refining the essence, the recipe for the big lock of the golden que, the recipe for sucking the water of the Xijiang River, the recipe for passing the customs and serving food, the recipe for internal casting, the recipe for external casting, the recipe for big empowerment, the recipe for small empowerment, the recipe for simmering the oven, the recipe for playing the flute, the recipe for opening the cave and the heavenly channel, the recipe for divine use, and so on. It is a secret practice for men and women.

Qingcheng faction: The sect of Taoist Inner Dan cultivation. According to legend, it began with the Qingcheng Zhangren, and Li Babai and others practiced it. Xue Daoguang's "Three Notes on the Enlightenment of the True Chapter": "Zhang Ziyang Immortal Weng met the Qingcheng Zhangren, and gave the gold liquid to return the wonderful way. It means that Zhang Borui once studied under Qingcheng Zhangren. The treatises of this school include "Qingcheng Secret Record" and "Dao Xuanzhi". Its exercises combine the strengths of yin and yang in the north and south and double cultivation, and go to Zhaoguan Yinzi, forming the basic characteristics of taking nothingness as the body, taking simplicity as the use, and the heart as the work. Because most of the exercises of this school are "secret symbols", and "it is extremely difficult to give and receive", there are very few people who know about it. Xiao Tianshi, a close friend, claimed to have read the "Qingcheng Secret Record" and "Qingcheng Jade House Jue", etc., and understood its purpose, and expounded it in his "Summary of Taoist Health Maintenance" and "Daohai Xuanwei". The Qingcheng faction cultivates the most important word "nothing", and recognizes the reference from the word "nothingness". Therefore, it is advocated that the practice starts from the top, cultivates the best, and the effects of the middle and lower vehicles can be both, and there is something to do without doing, and there is something to do without doing. This school believes that there is cultivation without cultivation, Si is a major repair, there is no success, Si is a great achievement, there is no virtue and there is a great virtue, and there is nothing and there is a great being. In the "quiet inaction", the emphasis is prominently on the mind and inaction, that is, the mind is quiet and inaction, and opposes only knowing how to be quiet outside, and not knowing how to seek clarity and quietness inside. Therefore, if the mind is quiet and does nothing, it will give birth to promising, and if the mind is quiet and reactive, it will give birth to merit. At the same time, in the process of contemplation, it is important to refrain from contemplation and meditation, and to avoid vain business and mental images, so as to distinguish them from the Zen meditation method. The practice of "non-action" of Qingcheng Danfa is embodied in the mantra of the past dynasties, that is, "keeping nothing leads to emptiness". It is divided into three levels: the initial starting effort is "keeping the middle and achieving peace"; the second step is "turning one into ten thousand", and the third step is "turning ten thousand into one, and one into nothingness". However, the "recipe within the formula" has not been passed down for a long time, so it is often difficult for practitioners to grasp and see it. Although the Qingcheng Gongfa adopts the Yin and Yang dual cultivation method of the Southern School, it is limited to the superior double cultivation method, that is, the male does not wear wide clothes, and the female does not untie the belt, "thousands of miles of divine friendship, thousands of miles of heart", according to legend, the Qingcheng Zhangren said: "The way of collecting and supplementing is not a matter of picking yin and supplementing yang in the room." It is to collect the qi of heaven and earth to supplement my qi, the essence of heaven and earth to supplement my essence, and the god of heaven and earth to supplement my god. Because of the transformation of heaven and earth, in order to create my transformation, because of the life of heaven and earth, to continue my life, because of the breath of heaven and earth, my qi will not stop, if the transformation of heaven and earth does not stop, then my transformation will not stop, and if the life of heaven and earth is not bad, then my life will not be bad. Because the life of heaven and earth is endless, and the life of mine is endless, the life of heaven and earth is always new, and my life is always new. (Quoted from Xiao Tianshi's "Summary of Taoist Health Maintenance") This kind of dual cultivation method is actually a heart-to-heart relationship, a relationship between emotions and appearances, a relationship between qi and body, and a relationship between the spirit and body. Therefore, the dual cultivation method of the Qingcheng School can be called "the main double cultivator in Qing cultivation". According to Xiao Tianshi, the "Qingcheng Secret Record" has detailed explanations on the use of yin and yang, the return of Qiankun, the great empowerment method, the small empowerment method, the method of opening up the heavens, the secret technique of hooking, the nine methods of casting swords, the three Wen Ding method, the nine Wen Ding method, the secret of collecting the secrets, the detailed fingers of the fire, the nine tips of alchemy, the dragon and tiger pill method, and the return of the mind to the empty finger. In particular, there is a detailed discussion of women's cultivation methods.

Yulong faction: also known as the hidden school or hidden immortal faction, it was created by Zhang Sanfeng real person in the Yuan and Ming dynasties. It is said that Zhang Sanfeng's Dan method comes from Chen Tuan, Chen Tuan passed on the Mai Taoist Li He, the Mai Taoist passed on the fire dragon real person, and the fire dragon real person passed on Zhang Sanfeng. Zhang Sanfeng's name is Quanyi, a Junbao, Zhang is sloppy, has extraordinary human potential, and has a free and uninhibited personality. This sect is based on the style of high seclusion, so it is called the hidden immortal faction. And because this faction is called both the beginning of Laozi Sect and the transmission of the Danfa of the Shaoyang two factions, it is also known as the Yulong faction. See also the article "Hidden Immortals".

Qianfeng School: Neidan School. It was created by Zhao Fuchen, an old man of Qianfeng at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Zhao Fuchen, a son of the Taoist Shun, called the old man of Qianfeng in his later years, a native of Changping County, Beijing, was born in the tenth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1860), claiming that in the early years of Guangxu, he had a blood in the stool with his grandmother to visit Liu Mingrui in the Taoyuan of Qianfeng Mountain to worship Liu Mingrui as a teacher. Later, in March of the 21st year of Guangxu (April 1895), he went to Jinshan Temple to worship Ran and empty Zen master, and sought the full secret of Liu Huayang Danfa, and began to accept disciples to teach the law in the ninth year of the Republic of China (1920), and founded the Qianfeng School. Feathered around 1937. He is the author of "The Secret of Life", starting with kung fu to look at the ancestral knack between the two eyebrows, and look at the nose accurately, its Dan method absorbs Zen kung fu, for the Northern Sect Qingjing Dan method. There are still descendants of the Qianfeng faction. This school of Dan is authentic and has been passed down by the master clearly, leaving a reliable basis for later generations of scholars to study the traditional Neidan Kung Fu.

The women's Neidan school of women's Neidan exercises is rarely taught in the world, and it is only half a claw in the Dan book. To sum up its origins.

(1) Nanyue Wei (Huacun) Lady faction. Also known as the Cunsi School. Taking the "Huang Ting Jing" as the sect, thinking about the body and the spirit of accumulation can be realized, and both men and women can refine it. Its exercises can be found in Chen Yingning's "Lecture Notes on the Huang Ting Jing".

(2) Chenmu faction. It is also known as the Waijin Dan faction. Xu Xun and Wu Meng were passed on by Chen Mu. With Xu Xun's "Stone Letter" and Wu Meng's "Copper Runes and Iron Coupons" as the main scriptures, the smelting and consumption of the Tianyuan Divine Pill are transmitted, and the cultivation of charms is also used.

(3) Nakajo Mountain Laomu faction. Also known as the swordsmanship school. "Lu Zuquanshu" records its origin, and uses swordsmanship to refine steel to become a Taoist, which is divided into two functions: "magic sword" and "Taoist sword".

(4) Xie Xiangu faction. The name of the fairy girl is Xie Nature, and the virgin who is more than ten years old is the Taoist, so it is also known as the virgin pie. The virgin did not menstruate. The body is full of vitality, you can avoid the foundation building kung fu, start with the grain rest, convince the qi, calm the nerves, and meditate, and obtain the Tao with the method of pure and quiet inaction, and pass on the "Taiqing Zhonghuang Zhenjing" exercises.

(5) Cao Wenyi's real person. Take "Lingyuan Avenue Song" as the ancestral scripture, and take pure heart and few desires, spirit and spirit, dedication and softness, yuan and internal luck as the key. This school is the women's Qing cultivation school of kung fu, both men and women can be used, the exercises are pure, Chen Yingning's "Lingyuan Avenue Song Vernacular Explanation" describes it in detail.

(6) Sun Bu Yuan Jun faction. Also known as the Qingjing School, the method of refining the form of Taiyin, starting from the slashing of the red dragon, there are "Sun Fu Yuanjun French", "Kun Dao Kung Fu Second Poem" and so on. Chen Yingning has "Notes on the Poems of Sun Fuji's Daughter" to record his exercises.

(7) Women's double practice. The exercises of this school are complicated, there are upper, middle and lower three vehicles, the lower vehicle is the secret in the room, there is a way to nourish yin and rejuvenate the face, the middle vehicle has the technique of collecting yang and replenishing yin, and the upper class has the key to double cultivation and double success. Among them, there are the techniques of combining yin and yang passed on by Xuannu, **, and Cainu, there is the method of Xia Ji and Xungong to stay in Yan and stay in spring, and there is the method of Zhao Feiyan's internal vision. The women's double cultivation faction calls its Danfa the Lu Zu family lineage, also known as the Lu Zu faction. There are Dan books such as "True Gold Formula" and "Female Dan Words". There is also "Xichi Collection", which also contains the secret biography of Nudan. Its Dan method should know Gengjia, distinguish whether there is or not, sit on the treasure turtle, wear nectar, go to the turbidity and stay incense, the moon shines on the cold pool, ride the bull to the moon to hit the golden bell, and catch the golden essence to lock the poisonous dragon, and finally achieve the purpose of "saving others and saving oneself, and reaping both internal and external merits". "Enlightenment Chapter" "big and small does not hurt the two countries", and it is actually a double cultivation school.