Zuo Ci
Zuo Ci
Zuo CI (156? --289？） He was born in Lujiang, Han nationality. He was named Mr. Wujiao. He was a famous alchemist at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He lived in Tianzhu Mountain and studied alchemy. The five meridians of the Ming Dynasty are also connected with Xingwei and Liujia of the Ming Dynasty. It is said that they can slay ghosts and gods, and sit in the kitchen.
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The book of the later Han Dynasty
》He said he had little Shinto.
According to records, he was blind in one eye, and he, together with Gan Shi and Ying Jian, claimed to be several hundred years old.
Life of the characters
Painstakingly practice
Zuo Ci, known as Mr. Wujiao, was a famous alchemist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. He lived in Tianzhu Mountain and studied alchemy. The book of the later Han Dynasty says that he has few Shinto. According to Ge Hong's baopuzi Jindan, Zuo CI is Ge Xuan's teacher. It is said that there are three volumes of Taiqing Danjing, one volume of Jiuding Danjing and one volume of Jinye Danjing. Cao Zhi said in his argument that he was good at fangzhongshu. According to relevant historical records, after sixty or seventy years of cultivation, he became an immortal after death. Ge Hong's biography of immortals also said that he was able to enslave ghosts and gods (understand the heavenly stems and earthly branches), change and open up valleys.
Early accession to WTO
Zuo Ci, born in Lujiang County. When he was young, he was very skillful. He once attended Cao Cao's banquet. Cao Cao looked around the guests with a smile and said, "today's VIP party, the delicacies are almost ready. What is missing is only the fish ends made by the sea bass in the Songjiang River of Wu state. " "It's easy to get," Zuo said So he asked for a copper plate and filled it with water. With a bamboo rod on the bait in the plate fishing. After a while, a bass was caught. Cao Cao applauded warmly, and everyone at the banquet was surprised. Cao Cao said: "one fish can't make all the guests eat at the banquet. Only two fish are good." Zuo CI then fished again. After a while, he fished out another one. Like the previous one, it was three feet long, fresh and lovely. Cao Cao went forward to make it into fish ends and gave it to everyone at the banquet. Cao Cao said: "now we have got bass, but it's a pity that we don't have ginger from Shu as seasoning." "It's also easy," Zuo said Cao Cao sent him to buy brocade nearby, saying, "I used to send someone to buy brocade in Shu. You can order someone to tell me who I appointed to buy more brocade." Zuo CI left and soon came back. He got ginger and said to Cao Cao, "I saw the man you sent in the brocade shop. I have ordered him to buy more." Later, more than a year later, the people appointed by Cao Cao came back and bought more brocade. Cao Cao asked him, he said: "in the past month and day, I met a man in the shop, he conveyed your order to me."
Cao Cao went out to play in the suburbs: there were more than 100 scholar bureaucrats accompanying him. Zuo CI brought a bottle of wine. A piece of dry meat, personally pour wine bottles, toast to every official, officials are not full and drunk. Cao Cao felt strange and sent people to trace the cause. I visited the wine shops. It turned out that their wine and dried meat were all lost yesterday. Cao Cao is so angry that he secretly plans to kill Zuo CI. Once, Zuo Ci was at Cao Cao's banquet. Cao Cao was about to arrest him when he retreated into the wall and disappeared. Cao Cao offered a reward for his arrest. Someone saw him as like as two peas at Zuo, who did not know which one was left.
Later, someone met Zuo Ci at the top of Yangcheng mountain in Henan Province, and chased him again, so he ran into the sheep. Cao Cao knew that he couldn't catch Zuo Ci, so he ordered his men to go to the sheep and tell Zuo Ci, "Duke Cao won't kill you any more. It turned out that he was just trying your Taoism. Now it has been verified, so I just want to meet you. " All of a sudden, there is a husband sheep, bending up the front legs of the knees, standing like a person, said: "why hurry like this!" People immediately said, "this sheep is Zuo CI." Then they ran to catch it, but these hundreds of sheep turned into rams, and they all bent up their front knee joints and stood like human beings, saying, "Why are you so busy?" So people don't know which sheep to catch. Laozi said, "the reason why I have a big disaster is because I have a body. When I lose my body, what else can I do? " It can be said that people like Lao Tzu can not regard the body as one thing, but compared with Zuo Ci, isn't it far worse?
Travel in all directions
Some people say that they saw Zuo CI in Jingzhou. At that time, Liu Biao, who was the governor of Jingzhou, also thought that Zuo Ci was a demon who confused people and planned to catch him and kill him. Liu Biao comes out to show off with his troops. Knowing that Liu Biao wants to see what Taoist skills he has, Zuo CI walks slowly to Liu Biao and says, "I have some meager gifts to reward your army." Liu Biao said, "you Taoist are alone. I have so many people. Can you reward me?" Zuo CI said it again, and Liu Biao sent someone to see what it was. There was only a bucket of wine and a small bar of dried meat, but ten people didn't lift it. Zuo CI himself took the dry meat, sliced it off to the ground, and asked a hundred people to give the wine and dry meat to the soldiers. Each soldier has three glasses of wine and a piece of dried meat. Dried meat tastes the same as usual. More than ten thousand soldiers have enough to eat and drink, but there is no less wine in the wine vessel, the dried meat has not been eaten up, and Liu Biao's more than 1000 guests are all drunk. Liu Biao was surprised and gave up the idea of killing Zuo CI.
Retired in old age
Zuo CI tells Ge Xiangong that he wants to enter Huoshan to refine jiuzhuan pill. Later, he finally gets the way and goes by crane.
Character thought
There is no direct material to study what gods Zuo Ci, Ge Xuan and Zheng yinzun worship. However, they are all Jindan school, so we can infer indirectly that they mainly worship Yuanjun and Laozi. According to baopuzi neipian Jindan, the main deity in the myth of Jindan school should be Yuanjun, also known as Taiyi Yuanjun. He is "the teacher of Laozi" and "all the immortals in the world belong to Yan". If they learn from the Sanhuang school (Zheng Yin's Sanhuang school is the most colorful), then their main worship may be the Sanhuang emperor. According to the book of three emperors cited in the sixth volume of the supreme secret, it should be the three emperors of heaven, earth and human. They are transformed from "great ancestral spirit", also known as tianbaojun, shenbaojun and lingbaojun. Ge Hong, as an important member of Jindan school, also respected Yuanjun and Laozi, but he did not regard Yuanjun as the highest deity. Looking at the inside and outside chapters of baopuzi, we can see that although we can learn from other scholars, the basic tendency is Confucian. Tang Changru pointed out that Ge Hong's scholarship is a combination of "the study of divination", "the study of rites and regulations" and "the study of yin and Yang, law and calendar". This "is the characteristic of Confucianism since Dong Zhongshu, and also the characteristic of Jiangnan scholars who have been studying since Lu Ji, Yu fan, he Xun and even Ge Hong himself". Therefore, "we have every reason to say that Ge Hong is the successor of the legacy of Han Dynasty.". In Bao Pu Zi Nei Pian, Ge Hong advocated the cultivation of both Confucianism and Taoism, "Taoism is based on the end of Confucianism", but he wanted to consolidate the end with the root rather than leave the root behind. Baopuzi neipian talks about the division of labor between Confucianism and Taoism
It is also the duty of the Confucians to ascend and descend, to circle three thousand instruments, to attack and defend the art of entering the interest, to take personal integrity lightly, to care about rites and music, to manage the world and to help the common people. It is also the business of Taoism to abandon wisdom in foreign things, change opportunities, forget the rich and the expensive, to persuade the poor, to achieve glory, to destroy sorrow, and to be unhappy with reputation. The Confucianists offer sacrifices to pray for blessings, while the Taoists perform justice to dispel evil. (Ming edition)
In other words, Ge Hong is an unambiguous Confucianist in the sense of "setting up a religion according to God". Therefore, I still think that "Ge Hong is neither a member of the Taoist organization nor a sympathizer of Taoist thought", and "later Taoists, by far fetched, cited Ge Hong as a sage of the same way, but relying on Ge Hong's erudition and ability to strengthen the momentum of Taoism.". nine
Ge Hong called Zheng Yin "a great Confucian, late and good at Taoism, who was taught by the book of rites and Shangshu" (baopuzi neipian xialan). It seems that in Ge Hong's eyes, master Zheng Yin, like himself, was a Confucian who practiced both Confucianism and Taoism. I still think that Ge Hong's "original intention is to uphold morality and justice, to prosper Confucianism and to help the world at the same time. It's only because the situation is not good that he has to go for the second place, to cultivate Taoism and to be independent.". Therefore, baopuzi does not talk about another deity system or the highest deity which is different from the Confucian deity system. If there is a highest deity in his mind, it should be the "heaven" between personality and non personality of Confucianism. The symbol of humanization is the "Heaven Emperor" that the emperor has the right to sacrifice.
As for GE Chaofu, what he worships should be the new spirit constructed by the new Lingbao Scripture. The five true texts of Lingbao Chishu, which he constructed, could not be seen at first. The text of Dongzhen part of daozang, which is similar to the original five old Chishu yuzhenwentian Shujing, is roughly the same. This sutra is supposed to be granted to the supreme Daojun by Yuanshi Tianzun, among which the main deities are the five sides and five elders, and their superior deity "Yuanshi". It can be seen that Zuo Ci, Ge Xuan, Zheng Yin, Ge Hong, GE Chaofu and others do not "share a common belief in a specific divine personality.".
Character achievement
Zuo CI played tricks on the princes. He was famous for his alchemy and took Ge Xuan as his apprentice.
Anecdotes and allusions
Zuo CI throws a cup
Zuo Ci was proficient in the five classics and astrology. He predicted from the astrology that the number of the Han Dynasty would be exhausted, that the national fortune would decline, and that the world would be in chaos. He sighed: "in this turbulent world, it is more difficult for those with high official positions to protect themselves, and it is easier for those with more money to die. So the world's glory and wealth must not be greedy So Zuo CI began to learn Taoism, and he was also very proficient in "strange door dunjia". He was able to drive ghosts and gods to sit and produce delicious food. Zuo CI practiced hard in Tianzhu Mountain and got a Book of Jiudan Jinye Jing (three books) in a cave
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