Xiangu cave

Fengmingshan scenic spot

synonym

Xiangu Cave (Fenghui town of Shangyu) generally refers to Fengming mountain scenic area

Fengmingshan scenic area (also known as Xiangu cave). Located 4 km southeast of Fenghui Town, Shangyu ancient county, 16.5 km away from Baiguan, the whole mountain covers an area of about 5 square kilometers. Bailou mountain, with many peaks in the South and buildings in the shape, is the remaining vein of the northern foot of Siming Mountain. It is adjacent to Siming Lake Scenic spot in Yuyao City in the East and ZHUJIAZHUANG, the hometown of ZhuYingTai in the story of "Liangzhu" in the West. Huanzhu village, 1km away from the foot of the mountain, is the hometown of the famous Lian Shi Meng taste in the Eastern Han Dynasty; Dongxi village, 4.5km away from the southwest of the town, is the seclusion of Fan Li, a counsellor of the Yue State in the spring and Autumn period, who "went out of the three rivers and into the five lakes" and built a Taozhu temple. There are many gentle slopes and wide valleys in the scenic area. The mountains are overlapping, the rocks are jagged, the springs are splashing, and the trees are dense. It has a good natural ecological environment.

Development history

The origin of Zhou Yi can Tong Qi

Wei Boyang, the author of Zhou Yi can Tong Qi, the earliest alchemy work in the world, once alchemy in this mountain. Wei Boyang, named Ao, was named yunyazi and Shangyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty

Fenghui people, the year of birth and death is unknown, and there is no record in the official history. According to the biography of immortals written by Ge Hong in Jin Dynasty, Wei Boyang was born in the family of gentry in gaomen. He was good at Taoism, lived in leisure and refused to be an official. Most people don't know his origin.

Wei Boyang spent his later years in a cave in the mountain. The cave is called Fengming cave, and later generations also call it Boyang cave. It was originally formed by the crack of a huge stone. The top of the cave opens to the sky, and there is an ancient rattan on the base. It grows into a tree with thick trunk, and its branches and leaves cover the mountain, covering both the cave and the ridge. Under the vine, there is a spring flowing down to the bottom of the cave, stirring up a bead of smoke and blowing up gusts of fog and wind, which makes people feel desolate and lonely. Chu Weihou, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem after watching the waterfall

There is no sky in the cave.

There is a gap between the two mountains, and a hundred paths of falling springs.

Anger rises like a drum, and empties into smoke.

Where to find Taoyuan is also a fairy.

Wei Boyang's historical position

It is said that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were two epoch-making figures in the history of Taoism, one was Wei Boyang, the other was Zhang Daoling.

Zhang Daoling later formed the lineage of Taoist tradition. After the song and Yuan Dynasties, Zhang Daoling became the family of Zhang Tianshi of the Zhengyi sect in Longhushan, Jiangxi Province, and mingled with the Confucius family in Qufu, Shandong Province. In the history of Chinese culture, it is a miracle for the world cultural history that the academic thought can create a family with a history of one or two thousand years. Wei Boyang, on the other hand, represents the spirit of hermit in the ancient traditional culture, the immortal. I still remember that this immortal once left a book named Zhou Yi can Tong Qi, which was written by him through repeated alchemy and practice in this cave. This book has been recognized as "the first work in this field" in the field of Chemical Science in the world by the world's scientific community, and is revered by the Japanese on the other side of the sea. "Zhou Yi can Tong Qi" has also been selected into the textbooks of scholars, as a model of science.

Wei Boyang's Zhou Yi can Tong Qi has been studied by people of several dynasties and generations in various fields. The result is that they have no clue. Zhu Xi, a great Confucian in Song Dynasty, claimed his life. His research on this book ended in failure. However, he was not reconciled. In order to avoid the suspicion of Yang Confucianism and secret Taoism, he changed his name to Kongtong Taoist Zou sue and annotated Zhouyi Shentong contract.

In 1984, Professor Zhou Shiyi was invited by Needham Institute of Cambridge to study with foreigners in England. It took two years to complete the first draft of the book of changes. It can be seen that people in foreign scientific circles have great respect for our immortal.

The purpose of Wei Boyang's book, to be exact, is to explain the principles and methods of cultivating Dan Tao, and to prove that man and the universe have the same body, the same work, and the different principles. In order to sort out the inheritance since ancient times and prove that the cultivation of Taoism can be sublimated into the traditional learning of immortality, he quietly borrowed the "Li, Xiang, Shu" in Zhouyi, and the five elements, Ganzhi, which were used in the principles and principles of Astrophysics in Zhou, Qin and Han dynasties, as well as the metaphysics in the metaphysics and metaphysics of Taoism Laozi The program makes a complete description. Of course, the "integrity" here is only people's limited opinion. We should know that the secret of the relationship between the universe and the human body is always an endless topic, and it is impossible to fully understand it. Fundamentally speaking, our so-called knowledge is just some nouns. The things we know, of course, include Wei Boyang's participation in the universe and human body. These things originally exist. If people don't know them, they have to study them curiously. As for what these things are, Wei Boyang and we are not sure. Therefore, Wei Boyang's Zhou Yi can Tong Qi is just the principle of "Dan Dao cultivation". However, as early as 1700 years ago, Wei Boyang realized that every existence is not only mysterious, but also sacred. The reason for this is that every living thing is the result of the evolution of nature for hundreds of millions of years, and contains the essence of heaven and earth. There is a "principle of human selection" in cosmology, which explains the relationship between man and the universe: the reason why the universe has such a law and presents such a picture is because otherwise, it is impossible for anyone to study it. Otherwise, it is impossible for Wei Boyang's Zhou Yi can Tong Qi and modern people to study it

"Once you knock on the stone wall, you can get the golden elixir without selling money." The short lines of Wei Boyang's confession carved in the small sinus on the right stone wall of Boyang cave can be discerned. From this, we can imagine that Wei's alchemy was really to explore the mysteries of human science. Wei Boyang seems to have had an insight into this 1700 years ago, so he made up his mind to study it.

The legend of Wei Boyang's Alchemy

As for Wei Boyang's history of alchemy in this cave, besides some factual records, Ge Hong's biography of immortals also records his alchemy with his three disciples

The strange story of alchemy:

"The success of Dan means that his disciples are not sincere enough, so he said:" although this Dan is successful now, we should try it first. If the dog is dead, it can't be taken. " When Boyang entered the mountain, a white dog was followed by him, and a poisonous pill was given to him. Before he reached the mountain, he died. Therefore, Boyang took the poison pill and the white dog and died after eating it. Boyang asked his disciples, "if you want to live a long life, what can you do if you take it and die?" Only one of his disciples said, "my teacher is an extraordinary person. If he died of taking Dan, he would have no intention." Also is to take Dan, that is to die again. The remaining two disciples said: "so if you want to live forever, how can you use it? If you don't accept this, you can live in the world for decades. " So he refused to accept it, but he came out of the mountain together and wanted to ask for coffins and funeral utensils for Boyang and his dead disciples. After they left, Boyang got up and killed his disciple dannei and Baigou. The disciple's surname was Yu, so they were all immortals. Because every man came into the mountain to cut wood, he wrote a book with the village and sent thanks to his two disciples. When I saw the book, I was very upset. "

The influence of Zhou Yi can Tong Qi

Shentongqi of the book of changes once influenced medicine, biophysics, Buddhism and Zen in Han and Wei dynasties, until the thought of "Shangyao Sanpin, shenwuqijing" in huangtingjing, the classic of Taoism, and the publication of Longhu Jing, etc., were all evolved from shentongqi of the book of changes, which only added some religious mystical ideas.

Why did Boyang write the Zhouyi shentongqi so incomprehensible? It turns out that this is not Wei's mystification, but Wei didn't do it when he wrote this book. The trend of literary movement in the Eastern Han Dynasty was in the period of changing from the present to the ancient, which led to the heresy of the style of the article. In addition, in order to explain the law of the universe in which the sun and the moon change, Wei proved that the principle of human life activity is the same as the procedure of the universe change. Therefore, he fully quoted the principle of "image number" in the book of changes and the theory of "Lao Tzu", and repeatedly demonstrated that "the profit and loss of the moon is related to the decline and prosperity of human spirit, and the appearance of the sun is related to the profit and deficiency of human Qi and blood..." However, due to the great proportion of the words of the sages and ancients, the phenomenon of "difficult to understand" appeared.

Here, we can record a few paragraphs in the book of changes, which has been translated into vernacular

Deducing the five elements teaching, teaching without bothering. Lift water like fire, dying out light. Thin eclipse of the sun and moon, often in the dark. The water is abundant and the fire is weak. Yin and Yang diet, sympathetic natural The name of the person with emotion, the word edge of the word. At the beginning of Jin's return, he was called huandan.

The three treasures of ears, eyes and mouth should not be blocked. Real people diving into the abyss, floating in compliance with the rules

Between the lines are Lao Tzu's theoretical notes of "to be empty and to be quiet" and "all things belong to their roots, which means to be quiet, and to be quiet means to return to life". They all further clarify that we should "exercise the spirit and soul" in order to achieve Lao Tzu's and Zhuang Tzu's so-called human realm of "communicating with the spirit of heaven and earth". Therefore, it can be called a work of "integrating Taoist science and Confucian philosophy into the cauldron of Dan and Dao". It is in this way that chemical scientists all over the world regard it as the earliest chemical "science" book.

Main attractions

Fengming mountain is the remaining vein of Siming Mountain, 4 kilometers away from Fenghui old street, with a radius of about 5 square kilometers

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