In the martial arts movies, there are many world-class masters, among which there is a very famous Taoist called Zhang Sanfeng, who is the leader of the Wudang Sect, he combines the various sects of learning in one, against the Yuan Dynasty, to suppress all kinds of mountain thieves and bandits, under the leadership of Zhang Sanfeng, the Wudang Sect has become the most powerful sect among the Six Gate Sects, and in Jin Yong's novel, Zhang Sanfeng's martial arts are comparable to Dharma. In the movies and televisions we watch, Zhang Sanfeng is already a grandfather who is over the age of 100, so how old did Zhang Sanfeng live in real history?
Zhang Sanfeng was born in Liaodong in 1247, and was admitted to the Wenwu Zhuangyuan at the age of 14, which shows that Zhang Sanfeng was brilliant and intelligent, and at the age of 18, he served as the county commander of a certain county, and after a year he decided to resign from the government and become a Taoist monk, so he worshiped the fire dragon Zhenren as a teacher. Zhang Sanfeng was the founding master of the Wudang Sect, he was the ancestor of the Taoist Neidan Sect and the master of boxing, and the martial arts he created in his life included the Dirty Sect, the Penglai Sect, the Hidden Immortal Sect, and so on in the Seventeen Different Martial Arts of Wang Wushan. He was born in the Song Dynasty, and was named "Loyalty and Filial Piety Immortal" by the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, and later by the Ming Dynasty's Ming Chengzu as "Yulong Six Ancestors Hidden Immortals Yu wei Pudu Tianzun", and many emperors of the Ming Dynasty gave him the title.
Speaking of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang had just established the Ming Dynasty, the foundation was unstable, and he was handling any matters large and small by himself, and he needed a capable helper at this time. Zhang Sanfeng was his best candidate, and Zhang Sanfeng was willing to help Zhu Yuanzhang, because he did not want to see the people suffering, and later under the governance of the two of them, the Ming Dynasty became stable, and the people's life began to moisturize, at which time Zhang Sanfeng left the imperial court. Zhu Yuanzhang admired him very much and did not want him to leave, so he began to look for him, but Zhang Sanfeng was a person who came and went without a trace, so Zhu Yuanzhang knew that he had not found him in the end.
Many emperors of the Ming Dynasty gave him names. Then Zhang Sanfeng was born in 1247, the Ming Dynasty was founded in 1368, then at this time he was already one hundred and twenty-one years old. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, he was given the title of "Flying Dragon Manifestation Hongren Ji Shi Zhenjun", and the emperor was Emperor Mingxi Zong Zhu Youxiao, who took the throne at the age of 16, and the time of his reign was 1605. Let's directly calculate that he was just enthroned to Zhang Sanfeng, at this time Zhang Sanfeng was already as high as 358 years old, but he did not die at this time, or live well.
Many emperors of many dynasties have great respect and worship for Zhang Sanfeng, especially the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, and many emperors have been looking for him, hoping to get Zhang Sanfeng's personal inheritance. Ming Chengzu Zhu Di said such a sentence because of Zhang Sanfeng: "Build the Forbidden City in the north and Repair Wudang in the south." Historians believe that Zhang Sanfeng only lived for two hundred and ten years, but Zhang Sanfeng has appeared in the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty in history, and has never heard of Zhang Sanfeng's death, perhaps he is still practicing in the mountains somewhere until now.
Zhang Sanfeng is the grandfather of the Taoists, if you really calculate, Zhang Sanfeng must be at least four or five hundred years old, when watching TV dramas before, I always thought that Zhang Sanfeng died in his 110s, but I did not expect that he still appeared in several dynasties. Of course, whether these are true or not can not be truly confirmed, according to the real records of the oldest people are only in their early hundreds, hundreds of years old is indeed a bit of disbelief.