During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was an all-round cattle man who put a good prime minister and resigned from the government and nestled in the mountains for 45 years. Emperor Wu of Liang sent officials to summon him many times, but he could not invite them out, so he could only send officials to the mountains from time to time to ask for advice, and he was Tao Hongjing, the prime minister of the mountains. But the prime minister is actually an insignificant achievement in Tao Hongjing's life, and his greatest achievement is to write books. Because of his writing, Tao Hongjing was once considered to be a suspected crosser of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, comparable to the Internet copying.
Tao Hongjing was born in a scholar clan, and since childhood, he has cultivated literacy and hyphenation in his family. By the age of ten, Tao Hongjing was able to read through the book "Biography of the Immortals" and yearn for it.
An understated sentence does not reflect Tao Hongjing's cattle, and only by careful analysis can we understand that what Tao Hongjing did was not a personnel affair. First of all, the difficulty of ancient chinese language, and then talk about the strange books such as "The Legend of the Immortals", the combination of the two, super doubled. Modern people's simplified characters may not be able to understand a few words in the "Biography of the Immortals", not to mention that ancient information is not developed, you can read through at the age of ten, and the early wisdom is also a little scary.
At the age of 20, Tao Hongjing began to work as an official, starting from the reading of the kings and becoming a general in the palace. Ten years later, after being an official for a long time, Tao Hongjing felt that it was not too interesting, simply hung up the official robe, folded it and handed it over, and then ran to the mountains and rivers.
But this official is not something that Tao Hongjing can say is inappropriate. After Emperor Wu of Liang succeeded to the throne, he repeatedly asked Tao Hongjing to come out of the mountains to assist him, but Tao Hongjing just did not want to go out. In the end, the two compromised and decided that Emperor Wu of Liang had something important to do, so he asked people to write to him and ask, and Tao Hongjing would take some time to figure out the way to do things and let people bring them back. In this way, Tao Hongjing has been the prime minister of the mountain for 45 years.
When he was the prime minister, he wasted a lot of time for Tao Hongjing, so that he could not devote himself to the cause of seeking immortals with all his heart. At the beginning, Tao Hongjing founded the Maoshan Sect in Qushan, and then planned to start his path to becoming a god. Based on the three religious classics collected in his early years of sightseeing and sightseeing, Tao Hongjing created the immortal genealogy "True Spirit Bit Karma Map" that is still used today.
The True Spiritual Karma Bitmap contains nearly three thousand characters such as heaven and earth people, ghosts, and gods. In addition to the more than 700 mythological figures and historical figures that can be found in the classics. The remaining two thousand or so, all of which could not be found, were most likely invented by Tao Hongjing himself.
After compiling the True Spirit Position Karma Map, Tao Hongjing changed hands and began to compile medical books. By integrating the collected medical classics, Tao Hongjing compiled the "Notes on the Collected Works of Materia Medica", which not only contains the arguments of his predecessors, but also Tao Hongjing's own views and understandings. One book is not finished, and later it also compiles many Chinese medicine classics such as "General Decision of Medicine" and "Tao Hermitage Materia Medica".
Those who cultivate immortals basically have medical skills, which is understandable. Just like Ge Hong, that was also a medical technique that cultivators could understand. But even massage, health, nursing, weapons will be, it is a bit unspeakable.
Later, Tao Hongjing also compiled the famous massage book "Guide Massage", the health care masterpiece "Health Care Sutra", "Nourishing Life Extension Record" and so on. Not only that, Tao Hongjing also understood that the "Food Commandments" and the "Ancient and Modern Sword Records" of weapons greatly improved the level of iron smelting during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Even kidney deficiency, Tao Hongjing is also involved in hunting, and published a book standing,
As far as Tao Hongjing is concerned, there are seventy or eighty kinds of books written in his lifetime, and there are many kinds of books, and he is very involved. If placed in modern times, it is equivalent to Tao Hongjing learning dozens of highly professional categories and getting a certificate. Under the conditions of ancient times, Tao Hongjing exhausted his life, and it felt unlikely. But people just did it, looking at the novel through the text copy, at most there are more than a dozen books to borrow, but not the brain. Tao Hongjing's books are all very professional, and it is difficult to believe that they are not crossers.
If it is only like this, it can also be explained by the resources of heaven and man. But Tao Hongjing's later study of chemistry makes it hard not to believe that he is not a crosser.
Tao Hongjing later turned to the study of chemistry, and he recorded the characteristics of saltpeter, laying a solid foundation for the later Tang Dynasty alchemists to mistakenly refine gunpowder.
Gunpowder can be explained by mistaken hits, but metals such as mercury and lead are not accidental hits. Tao Hongjing later developed a precise ratio and replacement method for mercury and lead. If you live another twenty years, do you have to set off a chemical revolution?
Tao Hongjing finally died at the age of 81, and the first half of his life was asking for immortals, and the second half of his life was in the mountains, frantically publishing books. Like in the novel, after looking for a hopeless way home, simply leave all the knowledge you know behind?
Perhaps, it is because Tao Hongjing alone has done things that no one can do for hundreds of years, which will make modern people feel that Tao Hongjing is very likely to be a Copyist who has crossed over to the Southern and Northern Dynasties.