Attaining immortality or immortality has always been pursued by the ancients or human beings, and the emperors of ancient China pursued immortality to a state of obsession. Probably the most famous is that Qin Shi Huang sent Xu Fu to take three thousand boys and girls to the sea to find the elixir of immortality, except for Qin Shi Huang, successive emperors have more or less pursued immortality. Another more famous one is the Jiajing Emperor, good fellow, Comrade Jiajing in order to cultivate the Tao Dynasty, every day to refine Dan. Speaking of which, there was also a 23-year-old female Taoist priest in Jiajing, who said that she would ascend to the throne on September 9th. And everyone did not ask the reason, on the same day there were still 100,000 people to see her ascended to immortality, but in fact, this person was suicide.
This obsessive female Taoist priest was called Wang Taozhen, wang Taozhen was not from a low birth, she was the younger daughter of Wang Xijue, a scholar of Hanlin during the Jiajing period. Her father was not simple, and the official was the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the Wang family is from the Taiyuan Wang clan of the famous and prestigious family, and Wang Xijue himself ranked first in the Jiajing Forty-first Year Examination and ranked second in the Ting Examination. Of course, no matter how good his grades are, he still has to start with the Hanlin Academy. This daughter was born on November 21, 1558 (December 30, 1558) of Jiajing, before his examination, and Wang Taozhen, who was born shortly before his examination, was very weak and always liked to cry.
If you like to cry, even if you like it, after all, it is biological, but this child is not good-looking, and he has scabies. Therefore, Wang Xijue and his wife did not like this second daughter very much, although Wang Taozhen was not very good-looking, but there were also many people who proposed to Wang Xijue's identity. The ancients always paid attention to etiquette when they got married, so they would set up marriages at a young age. Wang Xijue and his wife did not like this daughter, but in the end they also had to choose carefully, they chose a son of an official named Xu Jingshao, and the two sides were right.
Wang Taozhen grew up slowly, she was different from others, she didn't like to learn the Four Books and Five Classics, even if it was, and the knitting female worker didn't like it. If you don't like these, then you can barely learn martial arts, right? What surprised Wang Xijue as a result was that this daughter did not like to learn martial arts, but became obsessed with religion. Her mother, Zhu Shuren, was still very opinionated, and although Zhu Shuren was not from a high birth, she was also cultivated according to the traditional miss, and Wang Taozhen's daily meditation made her very unhappy. It is estimated that it is good to think about marrying out, and I did not say anything. Unfortunately, when Xu Jingshao was about to get married, he suddenly fell ill and died, which was not a big deal, and there were many people who asked for marriage according to Wang Xijue's official position.
Wang Taozhen did not know why she had a good feeling for this husband who had never met, and cried for three days and three nights, presumably in order not to marry. But the Wang couple could not stop her, because at that time, the imperial court advocated observance of the festival, and even encouraged. So Wang Taozhen stopped mentioning marriage in this way, and soon after she became a female Taoist herself, known as Tan Yangzi. After the news spread, many people were attracted, one of whom has been speculated to be the author of Jin Ping Mei, his name is Wang Shizhen. Wang Shizhen was also a famous admirer of Wang Shouren, and this person also scolded Zhang Juzheng and Yan Song for many years.
Wang Shizhen and Wang Taozhen did not talk about the same thing at first sight, but after a period of exchange, Wang Shizhen was impressed by Wang Taozhen's theory. And insisted on worshiping this little girl as a master, slowly Wang Taozhen's reputation spread, and I don't know what the reason was, many people came to worship under her door, even Feng Menglong, who wrote three words, also admired it. This matter was very big, and Jiajing, who was addicted to alchemy, was alarmed, but the two were not in the same category, so the emperor did not become her disciple.
In this way, in the seventh year of the Wanli Calendar, Wang Taozhen suddenly said that his cultivation immortals were about to become immortals, and he would soar on September 9. On September 8, she twisted her hair in front of Xu Jingshao's tomb, and on September 9, she did sit quietly in Zhitang. At that time, she was seen by devout believers and many people who watched the liveliness, which is said to have reached as many as 100,000 people.
These people were crying and worshipping like crazy, and This year Wang Taozhen was only twenty-three years old. According to the records, after Wang Taozhen died, he was in a sitting state, his face was yellow, and his lips were purple. The so-called Sheng Xian was actually just a poison she had taken herself, but people believed it. In fact, the elixir of immortality is still being studied, but there is no result, the immortal immortality that Xiu Xian wants to achieve by repair has not been completed, Cheng Xian said, maybe it is just a dream.
Reference: History of the Ming Dynasty