Fu Zheng School, also known as Fu Shui Taoism, is a general name for the various Taoist schools in Taoism that mainly use spells and other methods to cure diseases and drive away ghosts. In the early days, it was represented by Taiping Dao and Tianshi Dao. The Maoshan Shangqing faction, the Gesoshan Lingbao faction, and the Longhu Mountain Tianshi Dao that flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, as well as the emerging Shenxiao faction, Qingwei faction, Tianxin faction, Donghua faction, Jingming Dao, Taiyi faction, etc., all belong to the Fuqi Taoist faction. The above Fu Zheng sects were headed by the Heavenly Master Dao, and gradually merged into the Zheng Qi after the Yuan Dynasty, and stood side by side with the Danding Dao sect headed by the Quanzhen Dao. The Fu Gong faction uses Fu Gong to pray for disasters, curing diseases and plagues, and helping life and death, which is closely related to Chinese folk life and customs.
The lineage of the Heavenly Master appears as the "Zhengyi Sect Master", and leads the Jiangnan Pavilion Soap Mountain, Longhu Mountain, Maoshan and other three major Fu Gong Taoist schools, in addition to the "Tao Te Ching", "Zheng Yi Jing" is also the main classic, with Fu Zheng Zhai Jiao, séance and exorcism as the main religious activities.
1. Pavilion Soap Mountain Lingbao School
Gesoo Mountain, located in Yichun City, Jiangxi Province, is a branch of the western extension of Wuyi Mountain, the highest mountain range in southeast China, known as the "Roof of East China".
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Taoist Ge Xuan collected medicine and alchemy, preached and practiced medicine here, making Ge Soap Mountain famous all over the world. During the Tang Dynasty, Tang Gaozong sealed the pavilion of Soap Mountain as "the thirty-third blessed land in the world".
Lingbao faction, also known as Ge Soap Sect, Ge Jia Dao, is a Taoist school founded by Ge Xuan in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, active in the south of the Yangtze River, and this mountain is Ge Soap Mountain. The Lingbao Sect appeared at about the same time as the Shangqing Sect. The sect is formed by believing in and inheriting the "Lingbao Sutra" system, and is also named after the main transmission and major "Lingbao Sutra" system, and respects the Yuan Shi Tianzun as the supreme god.
2. Dragon Tiger Mountain Heavenly Master Road
Longhu Mountain, located in Yingtan City, Jiangxi Province, is the birthplace of Taoism in China. In the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling, the founder of Zhengyi, had been alchemy here, and the legend was that "the Dan became and the dragon and tiger appeared", and the mountain was named after it.
According to Taoist classics, Zhang Ling's fourth-generation grandson Zhang Sheng has settled in Longhu Mountain during the Three Kingdoms or the Western Jin Dynasty, and then the descendants of Zhang Tianshi have lived in Longhu Mountain, inheriting 63 generations and going through more than 1,900 years.
Heavenly Master Dao, also known as Zhengyi. "Zhengyi" means "to cure evil, one to rule all thousand". Zhengyi is also known as Zhengyi faction, its ancestor is Zhang Daoling in the late Han Dynasty and the way of "Zhengyi Alliance" created by him, also known as the way of the Heavenly Master, and called Zhang Daoling as the ancestor of the Heavenly Master or the old ancestor of the Heavenly Master. In the first year of Yuanzhen (1295), Zhang Youcai was the heir to the thirty-eighth generation of Heavenly Master, and he took charge of Jiangnan Taoism. In the eighth year of Dade (1304), he was awarded the title of "Zhengyi Sect Master, presiding over the Three Mountains Fugong", and later awarded the "Golden Purple Guanglu Doctor", sealed the national duke, and gave a golden seal. Since then, the lineage of the Heavenly Master has appeared as the "Zhengyi Sect Master", and led the Jiangnan Pavilion Soap Mountain, Dragon Tiger Mountain, Maoshan and other three major Fu Gong Taoist schools, since then in addition to the "Tao Te Ching", "Zhengyi Jing" is also the main classic. The main religious activities such as the Shenxiao faction, the Qingwei faction, the Donghua faction, the Jingming faction, the Taiyi faction, etc., are all called Zhengyi or Zhengyi, and the Quanzhen sect that appeared in the Jin Yuan Dynasty is listed as the two major sects of Taoism.
3. Maoshan Shangqing faction
Maoshan Mountain, located in the southwest of Jiangsu Province, is the first blessed land of Taoism and one of the holy places of Taoism in China. In the historical development of Maoshan Taoism for 2,000 years, Fengsanmao Zhenjun is the founder of the mountain, which is the birthplace of the Shangqing School of Taoism and is known as the "Shangqing Altar".
The Shangqing sect is a Taoist sect formed during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. With the "Shangqing Sutra", "Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing" and "Huangting Sutra" as the main classics, Feng Wei Huacun is the patriarch of the opening school, and the Yuan Shi Tianzun and Taishang Daojun are the supreme gods.
The Shangqing school emphasizes the cultivation of the essence and spirit in the human body, re-ascending the fasting and entering the Jing, contemplating the image of the gods, and not re-refining the outer pills.