When I was a child, I watched Li Ruotong's version of "Divine Eagle Hero", and I loved The Little Dragon Girl and was simply fascinated by her. When he saw Yin Zhiping stealing the episode of Little Dragon Girl, he was heartbroken. It can be said that how much you love Xiaolongnü, how much you hate Yin Zhiping. I can't wait to lift a sword and fight with him.
After growing up, I read some Taoist history, and found that there was really Yin Zhiping in history, but it was not at all as obscene as Jin Yong wrote. The historical Yin Zhiping was a remarkable person, a very important person in the history of Taoism, and a generation of masters.
Today, let's talk about the real Yin Zhiping.
Yin Zhiping was born in 1169, his hometown was in Laizhou, Shandong. The Yin family is a scholar of the Xiangmendi clan, which belongs to the local Wang clan, and seven of his ancestors have been among the jinshi. Being born into such a family is considered lucky. Yin Zhiping received a good education from an early age and entered a private school at the age of five. He had a very high level of understanding, and at a young age he was able to recite the "Filial Piety Sutra" and "the Analects", "although the diary has more than a thousand words, it is still surplus", which shows that his memory is super strong.
Although he was born in the traditional Shuxiang Mendi and studied Confucian classics from an early age, Yin Zhiping was associated with the "Tao" and was deeply attracted by the Taoist doctrine. This half comes from his personality, which is called "clear and clear" in the original words of the history books, that is, idyllic leisure and advocating nature. This kind of personality is naturally close to Taoist doctrine. Therefore, at a slightly older age, Yin Zhiping no longer studied Confucianism, nor was he obsessed with the imperial examination, but turned his energy to Taoist doctrine and became obsessed with metaphysics.
At the age of 14, Yin Zhiping met Ma Yu, a big man of the Quanzhen Sect, who was one of the "Seven Sons of Quanzhen". Yin Zhiping admired his Taoism and decided to follow him in his cultivation. When the family learned of this, they strongly opposed it and even locked up Yin Zhiping. Yin Zhiping was not dead hearted, and came out of the house over the wall and secretly followed Ma Jue to learn cultivation.
However, the good times did not last long, and a year later, Ma Jue died. Yin Zhiping had no choice but to cultivate on his own. The family still did not understand why he gave up his great future and ran to "fool around" with the Taoist priests. So, when he was nineteen years old, his family forcibly pulled him back, locked him in the house, and forced him to give up monasticism. However, Yin Zhiping did not change his heart to the Dao, and escaped several times and three times.
The family really couldn't stop him, so they no longer cared about him.
Yin Zhiping later studied Taoism with Liu Chuxuan, the eldest son of the Seven Sons of Quanzhen. At the age of 22, Yin Zhiping worshiped the famous Qiu Chuji as a teacher and was accepted by Qiu Chuji as a disciple. At this point, Yin Zhiping really joined the Quanzhen Sect.
Qiu Chuji was an important figure in Taoism and the leader of the Quanzhen Sect, and he was virtuous and deeply cultivated. At the age of 74, Qiu Was invited by Genghis Khan to go to the Western Regions to teach the Fa. When Qiu Set out for the west, he took eighteen disciples with him, and Yin Zhiping was one of them. On the way west, Yin Zhiping is an important assistant to Qiu Zhiji, and his daily affairs are taken care of by him. At the end of the westward journey and after returning to the Central Plains, Yin Zhiping was revered as "Qinghe Zhenren", also known as "Qinghezi", and went to the Shandong region to preach and propagate the Dharma.
When Qiu Chuji died, he left his will and left his disciple Song Dao'an in charge of the Quanzhen Sect, with Yin Zhiping as his deputy. However, Song Dao'an thought that he was old and that his cultivation was inferior to Yin Zhiping, so he took the initiative to give way to Yin Zhiping. As a result, this move was supported by many members of the Quanzhen Sect. As a result, Yin Zhiping became the sixth head of the Quanzhen Sect.
After Yin Zhiping became the head of the Quanzhen Sect, he did the following things to make the Quanzhen Sect a "state religion."
The first is to get close to the Mongol rulers. The Quanzhen Sect did not reject the Mongols, and Qiu Zhiji took the initiative to befriend the Mongols and became the guest of Genghis Khan. In this way, Quanzhen sect gained more support from the rulers. After Yin Zhiping became the head of the government, he still adopted the strategy of qiu and actively established good relations with the Mongol rulers and won their support. In 1232, the second Great Khan of mongolia, Waotai, personally marched against the Jin Dynasty. Yin Zhiping led the Daoist crowd to Shuntian (present-day Baoding, Hebei) to greet him. Wo Kuotai received Yin Zhiping in the palace, just as his father Genghis Khan respected Qiu Zhiping and honored Yin Zhiping as a guest. In 1235, the capital cities of Ha La and Lin built by Wo Kuo Tai were built, and Yin Zhiping was specially instructed to select Daoist monks with high cultivation skills to preach in Ha Lai and Lin.
The second is to preach everywhere and to enlighten the True Religion. In the spring of 1233, Yin Zhiping preached in the Chifeng area of Inner Mongolia, and everywhere he went, the government and the people worshipped him. Later, he went to Shanxi to preach. Yin Zhiping did a good job in Shanxi, so that the Quanzhen Sect was carried forward in Shanxi, and the Taoist temple and believers in Shanxi increased rapidly, so that the Quanzhen Sect spread throughout Shanxi. Later, Yin Zhiping went to the Shaanxi region to preach, restore the Taoist temple, and recruit believers, and the Qing Taiping Palace, louguan zongsheng palace, Lishan Huaqing Palace, Chongyang Chengdao Palace, Huashan Yuntai Temple, etc. on the Zhongnan Mountain were all repaired and rebuilt by Yin Zhiping, and finally formed a huge zuting palace viewing group. With the efforts of Yin Zhiping, Shaanxi has become an important town of Quanzhen Sect.
The third is to edit and revise the Daozang. While preaching, Yin Zhiping also organized a large number of congregations to edit the Daozang. In 1237, Yin Zhiping sent people around to collect Taoist classics, which were compiled by his disciple Qin Zhi'an at xuanduguan in Linfen, Shanxi. After seven years of hard work, with the efforts of more than 500 people, it was finally edited and revised in 1244. This vast classic, a total of more than 7,000 volumes, engraved and printed more than 120 parts, is stored in the Famous Mountain Grand View, laying the foundation for preserving and inheriting Taoist culture.
The above three pieces, as long as ordinary people make one piece, they can leave a name in history for eternity. However, Yin Zhiping had accomplished all three things, which showed that he had made great contributions to the development of the Quanzhen Sect.
In his later years, Yin Zhiping stopped worrying about religious affairs and concentrated on preaching and spreading the Dharma and saving the people, and became increasingly indifferent to politics. In 1235, Yin Zhiping planned to pass the position of head of the teaching to his disciple Feng Zhiheng. However, Feng Zhiheng felt that his ability was not good and resolutely resigned. In 1238, Yin Zhiping passed the position of head of the teaching to his disciple Li Zhichang.
After that, Yin Zhiping lived in seclusion in Wuhua Mountain and Dafang Mountain, traveling between Wuhua Temple and Qinghe Temple, swimming in the mountains and waters, and doing nothing. In his later years there are poems:
The heart should retreat for a year, and now the body should retire for both;
Mysterious and mysterious to forget to talk, pure and pure and natural.
This shows that his temperament is relaxed.
In 1251, Yin Zhiping died at the age of eighty-three. According to records, Yin Zhiping "got up in the morning to bathe and change clothes, ordered to do lent, returned to sleep, suddenly ascended to the truth, and daoshou was eighty-three years old." Yin Zhiping made great contributions to the Quanzhen Sect in his lifetime, and when his prestige was great, he resolutely retired and enjoyed a happy old age, and his life was the most complete.
Yin Zhiping, as a grandmaster of the Quanzhen Sect, was written by Jin Yong as an obscene villain, which was really regrettable. The reason for this is probably because the Quanzhen Sect surrendered to the Mongol rulers and became the Mongolian Yuan State Religion. Later, Jin Yong himself also felt that it was not too much to write Yin Zhiping like this, and later he changed Yin Zhiping to Zhen Zhibing, but Yin Zhiping's image has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and cannot be replaced.
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