Tao Jue (1573 – c. 1647 – early 1648 CE), courtesy name Zi Lang (紫阆), also known as Zhi Gui (稚桂), called himself a Tiantai resident, a native of Yao'an County, Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Tao Jue's brother, the distant grandson of Tao Zongyi (a native of Qingtao Township, Luqiao District, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, and a writer and historian of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties). Tao Jue and the Purple Cypress monk published the "Trail Mountain Collection", and also wrote "Langyuan Collection", "Continuation of the Sayings", "Song Sixty Selected Writings" and so on.
At an early age, When Li Zhen (a native of Quanzhou, Fujian Province, a famous thinker and writer of the Ming Dynasty) was appointed as the prefect of Yao An (present-day Yao'an County, Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan Province), he received apprenticeship and taught, so he resolutely defected to Li Zhen's men and devoted himself to Li's learning. In the nineteenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1591), Tao Juzhongju, but after that, he repeatedly failed to succeed, so he took the study of learning as the purpose, and walked out of Dian on foot to visit the sages and worship masters. Later, Tao Jue lived in his ancestral hometown of Zhejiang, and sought out Li Zhen at the Zhifo Monastery in Longhu, Macheng, Hubei (now Longhu Village, Baiguo Town, Macheng, Huanggang City, Hubei Province), and was praised by the sergeant as a "disciple of Longhu High School".
In the thirty-eighth year of the Ming Dynasty (1610), the 37-year-old Tao Jue entered the official field at the age of Gengzhi Kejinshi, and according to the Republic of China's "Yao'an County Chronicle", there were seven successive officials: "the first chief of the Sichuan Division of the Punishment Department, the second fujian divisional officer Wailang, the third Shanxi Shilangzhong, the fourth prefect of Damingfu (the former site of the administrative office was in the southeast of Daming County, Handan City, Hebei Province), the fifth Longyou ("Long right" from Longshan (Liupan Mountain) in Shaanxi-Gansu Boundary Mountain, west of Liupan Mountain, including the present-day Gansu Province Tianshui City, Pingliang City, Dingxi City, and Lanzhou City." It often refers to the area west of Longshan And east of the Yellow River) to the deputy envoys, and then to the Liaodong (referring to the area east of the Liaohe River, the whole territory of present-day Liaoning Province), and to the grain transportation and transportation of yuan Chonghuan, and all major governments are in a good position. Later, he was reappointed to Wuchang (武昌, in present-day Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei Province), and could be described as a well-known and prominent official. During his tenure, he respected people of insight, shared papers and talked about it, and was diligent in government for the people, which reflected quite well. In the early years of Ming Chongzhen, the elderly Tao Jue resigned and returned to Yao'an, and in addition to educating his children and grandchildren, he actively carried out public welfare and academic activities such as "opening up the city, discussing the compilation of the county, repairing the academy, the Zhou Zi Ethnic Party, and lecturing papers".
In addition to serving as an official and composing, Tao Jun, following the "Sayings" by the literary scholar Tao Zongyi in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, compiled and published the book "Continuing to Say The Story", totaling 46 volumes, including 572 kinds of Books of the Ming Dynasty. "Continuing to Say The Story" has been handed down to this day, still has irreplaceable value, and is praised as "in the past three hundred years, its books are inexhaustible, and the short book novels of the Ming Dynasty, only by transmission, the merits of the engraving are not indispensable." ”
Tao's greatest contribution to the publishing industry was the publication of the sutra "Trail Mountain Collection" with all his heart and soul. Breaking with the tradition of the government monopolizing all the printing of Tibetan scriptures, he, together with the famous monk Zibai monk, published the Tibetan scripture "Jingshan Zang" in Jingshan (located 50 kilometers northwest of Hangzhou, Zhejiang). In the thirty-first year of the Ming Dynasty (1603), the Purple Cypress monk died in prison because of the "Demon Book Case", and the ongoing printing of the "Jingshan Zang" was all the responsibility of Tao Jue, who asked his brother Tao Jue and the Purple Cypress Monk's FaBen to assist in this matter. They broke the strict restrictions of successive dynasties on the "classics", "laws", and "treatises", and under the cover of "continuous engraving", they used ingenious methods to adjust and supplement the contents of the Tibetan scriptures, and compiled some materials on the history, geography, characters, and palms of Yunnan. These historical materials are all uncollected by the books "Southern Yunnan Literature" and "Dian System" at that time, among which "Ancient Court Quotations", "Bamboo Room Collection", "Caoxi One Drop", etc., were still forbidden manuscripts at that time. After the publication of "Trail Mountain Collection", the Tao Brothers worked hard to wade through mountains and rivers to bring the books back to Yunnan, with a total of 1271 volumes of "Zhengzang" and 642 volumes of "Continued Collection", a total of 1913 volumes. The Trail Mountain Collection was first treasured at Tanhua Temple in Dayao (present-day Dayao County, Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan Province), and at the turn of Qing Xianfeng to Tongzhi to avoid soldiers, it was moved to Yao'an Guanglu (present-day Guanglu Town, Yao'an County, Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan Province) to Desi Temple, and finally preserved, and is now preserved as an isolated copy in Hainei, in the Yunnan Provincial Library.
Ming Dynasty engraving "Trail Mountain Collection"
The Ming edition of the Wanli Dynasty "Path Mountain Collection" is engraved with the first print of the "Into the Lengga Sutra"
"Trail Mountain Collection" 16 hardcover all 230 volumes of the National Library Press
Jiaxing Zang "Trail Mountain Collection" re-series introduction
Japanese re-engraving of "Trail Mountain Collection" - "Fenxun Wang Qingjing"
Sculpture of "Trail Mountain Collection" on the side of the roadside of Siling Reservoir in Jingshan• Shangou National Forest Park, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province
Four collections of sub-parts "Saying Gao" Tao Zongyi "Continuing to Say Gao" Tao Ju two kinds of 146 volumes and 12 volumes of national master calligrapher Zhang Xueliang wisdom capsule Zong Xiaochen cover inscription
"Speaking of The Continuation" Tao Ju (copy)
The Complete 46 Volumes of the Sayings of the Continuation of the Tao Dynasty (Ming) Tao Juqing Shunzhi Three Years Wanwei Shantang Inscribed Edition (Copy)
There is an account of Tao Jue in the "New Compilation of Chuxiong Fengwu Zhi"