In recent years, various fairy tales and fantasy novel have emerged in an endless stream, which has set off an upsurge of online literature. Many writers who can only be regarded as underage online writers have also taken this opportunity to enter people's field of vision. Today, many post-90s friends can be said to have grown up watching these novels behind their parents and teachers. Today, the popularity of fantasy novel continues unabated, and there are even different generations, special methods and martial arts. However, no matter what type, there must be an important element-"the cultivation of truth."
In fact, Xiuzhen is not a new word. As early as 2,000 years before the rise of fantasy fever, the ancients in China already had fixed truths.
There is such a record: "The ancients, their sleep was not a dream, their sleep was carefree, their food was unwilling, and their breath was deep."
It is said that these "people who keep their nature or practice the truth" can sleep without dreams, eat quietly and breathe for a long time without being influenced by other thoughts. Later, he went on to say, "In ancient times, real people didn't know what to say or say, nor did they know what to say or do. They were unhappy when they came out and not far apart when they came in. However, the past has passed and the present has passed. " Compared with the previous performance, this sentence is obviously more focused on consciousness and spirit.
These "enlightened" people in the eyes of the world can always keep an indifferent attitude towards life and death. They have no restrictions on the birth and end of new life, just come and go in a hurry. People who are far from appearance.
In Taoism, Wang Xu, the founder and strategist of Guiguzi, thinks that the face of a real person is more dignified:
"A real person is in harmony with heaven, insists on one thing, cherishes the heavenly heart, cultivates self-cultivation, and makes every effort to ensure the dignity of ambition, worry, thought and behavior."
This puts people in reality at the same height as the sky, holds high the highest principles, and cultivates all kinds of spirits with incomparable majesty.
The word "real person" is not only active in Taoist literature, but also mentioned in the Qin and Han medical code "Zhuangzi Grand Master".
Su Wen said: "In ancient times, there were people who really mastered heaven and earth, mastered Yin and Yang, breathed the essence, and maintained their spirit independently. If you form muscles, you can live in heaven and underground. If there is no end, a person will be born. "
In other words, the essence and spirit of real people are unified and will not increase, thus reaching the immortal realm of 3354, which is the most common and core desire and pursuit of real people by most ancient people.
Therefore, in the eyes of these saints, a real person is a perfect person, realizing the unity and harmony of external body and internal spirit. Only in this way can they transcend the interests disputes in the world and reach the realm of "eclecticism and eclecticism".
So did anyone really reach that height through physical and mental cultivation in the past dynasties?
If historical figures were first known for cultivating truth or immortals, Ying Zheng, the first Qin Emperor, was undoubtedly the first. In fact, to be more accurate, Qin Shihuang was not a real person. His main purpose is to realize his immortal wish, thus continuing the rule of Daqin for 10 million years.
So he reused Xu Fu, an alchemist at that time, ordered him to collect treasures from all directions, refine the elixir of life, and sent him to Japan to find the elixir of life. But until the emperor died, the illusory elixir of life still disappeared, and Xu Fudong's voyage to the West became a major historical issue.
During the Western Han Dynasty, due to the tough policy of "respecting Confucianism alone and abolishing a hundred schools of thought alone", many alchemists in the Qin Dynasty suffered a similar blow of "burning books" and gradually disappeared. Only in this way, the activities of seeking immortals to visit the Tao slowly cooled down. Until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, society once again fell into mysterious chaos. The plan of "cultivating immortals" was widely spread by the peasant uprising army.
During the Western Jin Dynasty, celebrities did not want to follow the crowd or retire completely in order to realize their frustrated talents and ambitions. The existence of "real people" is divorced from things, but it can have the greatest ears in the world, which naturally becomes the ultimate goal of celebrities.
Yang Xiu, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once praised the "immortals" in the Eastern Han Dynasty in the poem Huangdi Neijing: "Walk on Wan Li Road and look up at the sky by day."
Ge Xuan, Zi Xiao, founder of Taoism. The world regards him as Ge. When Ge Xuan was young, he studied Taoism with Zuo Ci and accepted Taoist classics such as The First Ancient Naivety, Dong Xuanguan and Tai Ming Jing. Wu Jiahe spent two years building temples, altars and stoves in Hezuo Mountain and practiced nine rounds of alchemy. Finally, it is said that he rode on Luan during the day.
Undoubtedly, the legend of Ge Xuan once again aroused people's enthusiasm for seeking immortality. After Wei and Jin Dynasties, celebrities scrambled to imitate and lived in seclusion with Samurai III. Ruan Ji's Huangdi Jiuding Shen Dan Jing wrote: "In the early days, real people were only the basis of great events. They are committed to one wish and everything exists. "
The practical truth in Wei and Jin Dynasties should be regarded as one of the most "true" meanings in the practical history of later generations. The ancients pursued those mysterious powers: first, they cultivated themselves in their hearts; Secondly, they pretend to be outside. Because Tao emphasizes roundness and fullness, he should practice "then Dan". So there are only two methods to determine the true pulse, the internal method and the external method.
The so-called inner alchemy, as its name implies, is to cultivate a kind of "merit" through the internal work methods of nourishing qi, breathing and virtue. However, there are countless people who practice truth in the world, and only a few people are truly moral and intelligent. Most people practice truth by means of "external alchemy", which is an unknown road to the future.
Because it is a pill for external use, it is natural to ask for it from the outside. Refers to the patent of smelting gold and silver stone in furnace and preparing pharmaceutical bait. Taking it as a carrier, Yin is captured and Yang is captured, thus becoming an immortal elixir.
This method seems to have gradually become the mainstream of true practitioners after the Tang Dynasty. Quite a few people, from emperors and generals to literati and businessmen, are fascinated by alchemy. Celebrities like Tang Xuanzong and Li Bai have their own history of seeking immortality and alchemy.
In fact, the ancients used rare metals as the main components, and rare medicinal materials such as Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng as auxiliary components, and then refined Dan and mixed it with cinnabar. Without trying, we can easily know that the "elixir" extracted in this way is not only harmful, but also potentially life-threatening. This is also the crux of the problem. Many people practice elixir all the year round. In the end, most of their lives will not last long.