Zeng Zhen

Zeng Zhen

Zeng Zhen was a teacher of Taoism in the early Southern Song Dynasty. Word end Bo, number to Youzi, Jinjiang (now Quanzhou, Fujian) people. The year of birth and death is unknown. At the beginning of Jingkang (1126) in the Northern Song Dynasty, he was a member of the Ministry of granary, wailang. After the Jin people were trapped in the capital, they served as official officials with their father-in-law, Wu Jiangjin, an academician of Hanlin. Shaoxing nine years (1139), Qin Hui in power, from the Ministry of household member wailang, eleven years (1141) promote the mansion is minister. Soon after, apart from repairing the secret Pavilion, the fengci Temple held the Yulong temple in Hongzhou and lived in Yinfeng. In his later years, Zeng Zhen studied health preservation and devoted himself to Taoism. He believed in Taoism.

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Zeng Zhen

（？ He was a teacher and poet of Taoism during the Song Dynasty. Zeng Gongliang, a minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, was his grandson. Zeng official to shangshulang, zhibaowen Pavilion. In his later years, he lived in seclusion in Yinfeng and devoted himself to cultivating Taoism. He advocated that "learning Taoism should be based on purity and inner view". He compiled 42 volumes of daoshu and selected a large number of cultivation and health preserving techniques, including Yili, Yinfu, Huangting, Taiji, Fuqi, Dadan, Lianjing, fetal rest, Jinbi Longhu, lead and mercury elements, etc. After his death, Zeng Zhen was listed as a famous official of Neo Confucianism and worshipped in the Xiangxian temple.

Compilation works

After Liu Xiang's biography of the immortals, Ge Hong's biography of the immortals, and Shen Fen's biography of the immortals, he compiled the biography of the immortals in the 21st year of Shaoxing (1151). The order of its arrangement is as follows: if the events of different dynasties were obtained from the stele, the title of the world is at the beginning of the volume, the second is that the age of the works is not available, the second is that the works were found in the Song Dynasty, and the last is that the names of the dead are attached to the end of the volume.

He divided the immortals into three categories: the light lifting immortals formed by refining form, Qi and spirit, the corpse dissecting immortals formed by sitting off and standing dead, the fire dissecting immortals with perennial roots, the living immortals formed by Alchemy, and the fate Immortals (i.e. those who meet people and get the key to baiting pills).

Zhizhai Shulu Jieti said that the twelve volumes of zhizhai Shulu were "162 people from Cen Daoyuan". The original book has been lost. Today's Shuo Ying is only a brief record of the 137 people who came to Hou Daogu from Cen Daoyuan.

thought

In order to study and cultivate health, Zeng Xuan selected a large number of materials from many Taoist books and compiled 42 volumes of daoshu (108 chapters in total). Generally, the original text is compiled and written in series, with a title. Under the title of each article, four words and four sentences are used to indicate the main points of the article or to teach the original story, from which the views of the editor can be seen.

For example, the synopsis of "Xuanzhou" said: "the heart is tired, and runs away from the Tao. The mind is clear, but it is a few of the Tao." It shows that the main purpose of Taoist cultivation is to keep one's mind at ease and nourish one's spirit. Another example is that the synopsis of Neide says: "the three industries and seven emotions, not only clarify the source, but also keep the Five Spirits in the viscera, and the three ones will last forever." Another example is the synopsis of broken gold, which says: "the mystery of lacquer garden and the emptiness of Zhu Qian are all in the right mind, sharing the same skill with Confucianism." It reflects his thought of three religions in one.

In Ren's daoshu, there are 15 articles, including sit and forget Xia, Rongcheng, Zhoutian, Shuihuo, Kanli, Huohou, Jiageng, Kunlun, taking Qi, breathing, Xiuzhen, Zhenyi, Wuxing, Zhongmiao and medicinal mirror. Each article uses the form of "zhiyouzi Yue" to express the editor's own opinions directly. For example, in Zhongmiao, there is a saying that "zhiyouzi said: I have the root of life, and I don't know it in the world. I accept it in Qi, and don't let it out in essence. Therefore, Yunzhi and Yuchi are in harmony. For a long time, this is Dan, and this is my life.". It shows that his compilation of daoshu is not a simple selection and compilation of previous materials, but contains his own heart

Experience and experience. For another example, in Rongcheng, Zeng Zhen refuted the imperial daughter's skill, saying that "Wei Boyang said: if you cut the flesh inside the abdomen, you can't have a fetus, then the external things can't be Dan.". It is also the one who knows and studies Taoism, and takes purity as its religion and inner view as its foundation. Therefore, the deep-rooted, so that pure gas adhere to, God not outside Chi, as far as Kan Li communication, and medicine can be. Good at Chuang Tzu's theory, he said, "you must be pure and clear. You can live a long life without laboring your form and shaking your essence. You have never heard of a person who has won immortality with a royal daughter." It can be seen that Zeng Zhen is a advocate of inner alchemy.

On the history of daoshu

The twenty-three chapters from Volume 1 to Volume 6 of daoshu were independently compiled into Volume 2 of zhiyouzi (Volume 1, 11 chapters and Volume 2, 12 chapters). Not famous. Yao Ruxun of Ming Dynasty wrote a preface to Bingyin (1566) of Jiajing. The summary of the general catalogue of Siku Quanshu says that "the main purpose is to be clear-minded and lack of desire, but to cooperate with Kanli, so as to protect Changsheng, and to develop the technique of Rongcheng, which is quite right." However, the author of synopsis mistook the annotation about chaoyuanzi in Yuzhi for "Chen Jubao, the man in the Yuan Dynasty". So it is suspected that it was written by Yao Ruxun in Ming Dynasty. Later, Xu Shidong's Yanyu Lou Shudu Zhi and Hu Yujin's Siku Quanshu Zongmu Abstract supplement and correction have pointed out that they should be "Chen Ju, Baoyuan (one of Renzong's titles in the Northern Song Dynasty)", and the mistakes have been corrected. However, they did not connect zhiyouzi with daoshu. Therefore, although they believed that the second volume of zhiyouzi was written by Zeng Zhen, they did not know that it was a part of daoshu. If we compare the contents and contents of the 23 chapters of zhiyouzi with daoshu, we can find that they are the same as volumes 1 to 6 of daoshu. Thus, it is proved that the two volumes of zhiyouzi are actually written by Zeng Zhen. As for the first to sixth volumes of daoshu, why is it independently compiled into the first and second volumes of zhiyouzi, and who will be the editor? If it is believed that someone else compiled it from daoshu, why did he only compile the first 23 and abandon the remaining 85? It's hard to explain. Most likely, Zeng recorded 23 Taoist cultivation materials and integrated them into two volumes of zhiyouzi. Then on this basis, it continues to expand to 108 chapters of Dao Shu. Because the twenty-three chapters of zhiyouzi were compiled first, they are listed in the first to sixth volumes before daoshu; and because daoshu already contains all the contents of the second volume of zhiyouzi, there is no need to spread them separately in the name of the second volume of zhiyouzi written by Zeng Zhen. The appearance of zhiyouzi only reflects the stage achievement of his research on Taoism, and its final achievement is daoshu, which has a large capacity and retains a large amount of information about Taoism's health preservation of Inner Alchemy before the Southern Song Dynasty. Both Zhengtong daozang of Ming Dynasty and daozang Jiyao of Qing Dynasty are included.

literary sketches

In addition, Zeng compiled materials from 252 kinds of novels, which can be used to govern sports, to help famous teachers, to talk and laugh, to see and hear widely, and compiled them into 50 volumes of Lei Shuo. He also wrote a volume of Gao Zhai man Lu, "from the imperial court's rules and regulations, to the deeds of the literati and bureaucrats, to the literary criticism of poetry and the humorous ridicule, which is recorded according to what he saw and heard.". There are also three volumes of Yuefu elegant Ci, fifty volumes of selected poems of Song Dynasty, and one hundred supplements to Tongjian.

Poems

Silk-Washing Stream

Another kind of Qingfen.

After the fragrance of autumn, it was recovered.

The mist of Boshan locks Cui Wei.

Cherish Xianglin samadhi,

No teaching, no flower.

Secretly mistaking Jiang Mei.

Qingyoumei

Qingyou. Jun Fang, right. It's a unique show. It's cold and the moon is thin, after dusk. I'm waving. So there are thousands of trees in the mountains. May I ask if you are safe now.

Jingyoulian

Jingyou. It's just like makeup. It's full of fragrance. A river is clean. The white feather gently shakes the clear day. What does yuangongbao community have today. Look at the head of Donglin.

Yuyou wine

Yuyou. Life is old. It's more durable than forgetting. There is nothing in the drunken country. Don't ask about Sheng Dou. It's hard to laugh in life. In order to report speed, it is appropriate.

Pozi

The flowers are good. Annoyed by the flowers. The court was smiling. He once taught us how to move the root. Each of them is ordinary. How much do you know about pleasure. It's busy and sunny.

Good wine. Straight. The new fermented grains in the small urn are made of jade ants. Wu's and Cheng's were transmitted from the air. Not counting Yunan Qumi. Ten flowers are more relative to each other. Mr. Chang Pang is intoxicated.

Lin Jiang Xian

Zihouyin sits in front of him in the East, and his heart is full of teeth. Look back to the sky. The bow is still on the crossbow, and there are many windlass.

Three degrees to Yuan nine degrees, back rub double swing crossbow. Hu long and Yan Yuanhe. Take a bath, then you can steal a cigarette.

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