When it comes to cultivating truth, many men will instantly mention the spirit of one hundred points, yes, cultivation is the yearning of most men. The flying of the royal sword, the coexistence of heaven and earth, the killing of thousands of miles, the happiness of enmity, etc., all of them are the jianghu life that men are fascinated by, absorb the essence of heaven and earth, look for the creation of the ancient age in their old age, obtain the luck that can destroy the heavens and the earth, and step by step to the peak of all walks of life. Such a life is certainly attractive, but in reality, we can't overcome Newton's laws, and we are still at work every day to feed ourselves, let alone practice ourselves.
Although we may not have the opportunity to touch the realm of cultivation, it does not mean that no one has such an experience, after all, the fantasy novels are not fabricated out of thin air, and the prototypes of those mysterious stories may have appeared in ancient China.
The name of cultivation has existed in ancient times, and it is commonly known as cultivation. To remove the false and save the truth is to "cultivate the truth."
These legendary figures in ancient China generally have mythological overtones, and as to whether they are "cultivating truth" as we conventionally understand them, we need to judge them ourselves. These people who have some inextricable relations with the cultivation of truth are basically people who have a relationship with Taoism, and the title of the real person is probably not related to the cultivation of truth.
First of all, we want to talk about a person whose name is Chen Zhuo (tuán). His life is more legendary, very similar to the cultivators we see in the novel. When Chen Zhuo was young, he once met an old woman in green clothes who breastfed him, and since then he has been brilliant and intelligent, but the strange thing is that when he grew up, he did not win the exam, so Chen Zhuo decided to live in seclusion. On the way, he met two people and told him that the Nine Chambers Rock of Wudang Mountain was more suitable for seclusion, and Chen Xuan went there to retreat and began what we thought was a cultivation immortal. In the process of cultivating in Wudang Mountain, he had been digging valleys for more than twenty years, drinking some wine every day, and at the same time, Chen Zhuo had also practiced a "sleeping exercise", and every time he slept for more than a hundred days before waking up.
"Everywhere you sleep, you can't afford more than a hundred days." - "History of Song"
In addition, Chen Zhuo's has a place of superiority, and he has the ability to foresee. There was a Taoist monk Jia Xiufu, came to see him, before he could speak, Chen Zhuo ordered someone to take down the big scoop on the wall of his cave and give it to him, the Daoist priest was stunned, looked at Chen Zhuo in surprise, and wondered how Chen Zhuo knew that he wanted this big scoop.
Whether Chen Xuan was in the valley, or sleeping for a long time, or even having some premonition ability, plus he lived in the cave, these all looked like a very good cultivator, even if chen Zhuoxian finally went, he also knew in advance that when he died in the cave immortal, after seven days, his limbs and body still had residual temperature. There are also five colors of colorful clouds at the entrance of the cave to cover the blockage, which does not disperse through menstruation. Such a scene is inevitably associative, as if this is not the appearance of Xian's death, which is very similar to the Dao Ascension of the Cultivating Truth characters in the novel, perhaps, Chen Zhuo just used the excuse of Xian's death to leave that place to continue cultivating Zhen.
"Died on schedule, and after seven days the branch was still warm. There are five-colored clouds covering the mouth of the cave, and the moon does not disperse. --History of the Song Dynasty
Speaking of Chen Zhuo, one of his apprentices naturally has to be mentioned, and his apprentice Zhang Sanfeng's name is much louder than his, and his sense of existence in history is stronger, after all, the Wudang School and Taijiquan he founded really exist today.
Zhang Sanfeng's ability was extremely strong, not much more than that of the cultivators, and he also got the true transmission of his teacher, and even in some ways, Qing was better than Blue. Months of not eating, never forget, soaring clouds and driving thousands of miles a day are his best tricks, and more legendary is that he also has a meeting with the immortals, although this statement is a bit too exaggerated, but his skills are very unusual. He even wrote a letter to The Yongle Emperor, which recorded some secrets for longevity, and I don't know if Yongle had studied it, but Zhu Zhanji definitely did not practice. As for Zhang Sanfeng's age, it has always been a mystery, during the Yongzheng period, there was also a gentleman from Wang Mengjiu who met Zhang Sanfeng, and Zhang Sanfeng was more than 300 years old at that time!
The first part of the "Suqin Ancient Innocence Theory" says: "The ancients have real people, lifting the heavens and the earth, grasping the yin and yang, breathing the essence, independently guarding the gods, and if the muscles are one, they can live in heaven and earth, and there is no end, this way of life." ”
Judging from the records of the Su Qing, the ancient Zhenren are similar to the cultivators we are talking about today, and the records of Chen Zhuo and Zhang Sanfeng are also very close to the descriptions of the cultivators. It can be seen that the cultivation of truth has appeared very early in the history of our country, and there are similar people. In Taoism, Chen Zhuo and Zhang Sanfeng can become cultivators and be admired by future generations.
Brother Ye temporarily listed these two masters and apprentices, only because their seclusion is more like cultivation, if you count other strange people and strange things in history, such as Zhong Liquan and Lü Dongbin and others, there are many legendary figures, and most of them are mythological and legendary, and here is not as an ancient "cultivation" type of person for everyone to explain in detail.