Zhang Junfang

Zhang Junfang

Zhang Junfang (living around 1001 AD) is a native of Anlu, Yuezhou. The year of birth and death is unknown, about the time of emperor Zhenzong's life in Xianping. It was written in the sixth year of Xianping. Jingdezhong (around 1006 A.D.) Jinshi and. The official secretary was a member of the staff, wailang. In Xiangfu (around 1012 AD), he was demoted from Yushitai to Ninghai. He worshipped Taoism and did his best to send the book to Hangzhou for correction by Qi Lun and Chen Yaochen. Wang qinruo recommended the owner of the house. Jun Fang was compiled with 4 565 volumes, which was entered. The official work is Zuo Lang. After compiling the Taoist book, Junfang collected more than ten thousand of its essentials, forming 122 volumes of Yunji Qiqian, three volumes of Siku Zongmu and Chengyi Ji, and general textual research of literature.

Taoist Studies

Zhang Junfang, a scholar of the Song Dynasty, made a supplement to the Taoist culture through his study of Taoism. He believed that the three corpse gods were in fact the monitoring gods stationed in the human body. These three identities are Peng Xie, Peng Zhi and Peng Jiao. On the day of Gengshen, the three corpses would leave the human body while the host was asleep and enter into the underworld to report what their host had done in that month one by one, and the underworld would make a ruling on the safety of human beings according to these records. Zhang Junfang was very excited about the secret. He began to try to meditate and recite sutras all day long, but never fall asleep. Zhang Junfang believes that in this way, the three corpses in his body will not be able to leave himself and return to the underworld, and his deeds will not be recorded. This will eventually lead to the disappearance of his name from the book of death of simang. At the same time, in order to avoid his strange behavior causing suspicion of three corpses in the body, he according to the guidance of Guo Pu, relying on taking medicine mainly to sing Poria cocos, to confuse three corpses. In the past 30 years, Zhang Junfang never fell asleep in the days of Gengshen. Finally one day, he suddenly rose in front of his disciples and disappeared. One night shortly after, a disciple of Zhang Junfang suddenly met his master in a dream. Zhang Junfang told him that because he had made excellent achievements in confusing the three corpses, he was now stationed in his body to act as the ugly supervisor named Peng Ji. This is the origin of Shou Gengshen.

Library house

He is a bibliophile and bibliographer of Taoism in the Northern Song Dynasty. The word allows the square. Ruozhou Anlu (now Anlu, Hubei) people. Jingde two years (1005) Jinshi, official Secretary wailang, full Jixian school management. In Dazhong Xiangfu, he was demoted from the imperial envoy to the county magistrate of Ninghai and Qiantang in Zhejiang Province. At that time, Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty advocated Taoism and delivered the Taoist Scriptures collected in the secret pavilion to Hangzhou for correction by Qi Lun and others. Qi Lun recommended him to take charge of his affairs. As a result, there were more than 10 Taoists engaged in the compilation of Taoist books and old Taoist collections in Suzhou, Yuezhou and Taizhou. The number of books was 4565 volumes. He also selected its essence and compiled 122 volumes of the seven chapters of Yunjing, which is the representative of the catalogue of Daojing in the Northern Song Dynasty. His family was very rich in books. When he lived in Lu'an, his fellow countryman Ling Hu Kui often rode on a thin horse and took his children to the city to borrow books from Jun Fang's house. Therefore, Ling Hu Kui once wrote a poem "borrow books from near outline, spend cold river in snow". Later, he successively served as the commander of Suizhou, Yingzhou and Xinyang. His works include Cheng Yi Lun, Ye Yu Yao Shuo, Ke Ming Fen Ding Lu, Li Qing Ji, Chao Shuo, etc.

Chinese PinYin : Zhang Jun1 Fang