Mr. Jin Yong, a famous writer of martial arts novels in China, has depicted many heroes with vivid writing for us, among which "The Book of the Slaughtering of dragons in the Heavens" shows us a master who is not only strong in martial arts, but also talented, he is Zhang Sanfeng. Zhang Sanfeng also has traces to follow in real history, and today we will explore who Zhang Sanfeng is in history.
The mystery of Zhang Sanfeng's age
There are many controversies about when Zhang Sanfeng was born in history, some people say that he is a person of the Southern Song Dynasty, some people say that he is a person of the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty, some people say that he is a person of the Ming Dynasty, and even more, some people say that he is immortal, and his youth is eternal, and these three generations are Zhang Sanfeng alone.
In fact, this is basically nonsense, Zhang Sanfeng in history is indeed a fairy wind Dao bone, a generation of high people, this is because Zhang Sanfeng has been practicing Taoist culture since childhood, practicing Taoism, plus cultivating the mind and cultivating the body, which is the reason why Zhang Sanfeng has lived longer than ordinary people.
According to the records in the History of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Sanfeng was born at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, his birth was accompanied by wars, spanning the two eras of the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, many materials have been lost, and when people recognized Zhang Sanfeng again, he had become a Taiji master in Wudang Mountain, and people mythologized him.
Born with a vision
Zhang Sanfeng is rumored to be from Liaodong, and his father and mother were ordinary farmers. At that time, Zhang's mother was pregnant in October, and When Zhang Sanfeng was about to be born, she had a dream in which a crane flew to the roof of their house.
Zhang Mu told her husband about this matter, and the man must not believe it, only that his wife was too tired and hallucinated. He appeased his wife and promised to go out to have a look, but he didn't expect to see a crane standing on top of the house when he went out.
Back inside the house, the man told his wife about seeing the crane. The wife said to the man, "In the future, this child will become a great instrument." Therefore, when the child was born, he named the child Zhang Quanyi, the meaning of which is to hope that he will become a perfect person and become a big person in the future.
But after a long time, Zhang Quanyi's mother felt that the name was too tongue-twisting, so she gave her a nickname of Junbao. Because Zhang Junbao's name became more and more smooth, later generations omitted Zhang Quanyi's name and directly called him Junbao, which has also been mentioned many times in Jin Yong's novels.
But why did he change his name to Zhang Sanfeng again, in which Jin Yong mentioned such a sentence in the novel: "There is Baoming in the north, seeing that the three peaks are very beautiful, and the heart has a feeling, which is the name Sanfeng." From this passage, it can be seen that Zhang Sanfeng is actually his name.
And why did Zhang Sanfeng come back to Baoming, see Sanfeng again, and give himself a word? This goes back to his childhood.
Zhang Sanfeng, who had just learned to read, showed his intelligence that was different from ordinary people. Zhang Sanfeng's father asked him to endorse the book, Zhang Sanfeng could soon recite it backwards, he was very fond of reading Taoist classics, so when he was five years old, he was full of jinglun.
Blessed by misfortune, guided by the superior
Proper setbacks lead to greater success. When Zhang Sanfeng was five years old, he had a serious illness, and this illness would blind him in both eyes, and Zhang Sanfeng's mother and father broke their hearts for this matter, and found many Langzhong who could not cure his eye disease.
Just as the family was about to fall into the swamp of pain, an old Daoist of the Immortal Wind Dao Bone came from outside the door. This person called himself Zhang Yun'an, and as soon as this Taoist priest saw the child, he said: This child is very close to me, and I can cure his eye disease.
Hearing this, Zhang Sanfeng's parents seemed to have grasped the life-saving straw and hurriedly asked how to cure this eye disease. When Lao Dao heard this, he stroked his beard and said: Let the child go with me for seven years, and then return him after seven years.
Zhang Sanfeng's parents had no choice but to think that this child would become a great instrument in the future, and this old Daoist Immortal Wind Dao Bone, who also looked like a worldly master, promised the Daoist priest to take Zhang Sanfeng away.
This walk was six years, Zhang Yun'an, a Taoist monk, was also very capable, and under his healing, Zhang Sanfeng's eye disease quickly improved and he saw the light again. And with the help of Zhang Yun'an, Zhang Sanfeng further learned Taoist thought and Taoism, and used them for himself.
After that, Zhang Sanfeng's life was smooth sailing, and after returning home, he took the meritorious name and came to a small place as a county order.
This county order did not last many years, Zhang Sanfeng's parents died, at this time in the world chaos, change the dynasty, Zhang Sanfeng under the pretext of going home to serve the funeral official Yunyou. Zhang Sanfeng's name was also given when he was traveling in the clouds.
At that time, Zhang Sanfeng passed through the place of Baoji and saw the Sanfeng Mountain, and he was deeply shocked by such a beautiful view, so he named himself Sanfeng. It is worth mentioning that why is It written in Jin Yong's text that Bao Ming is written? In fact, it was because Zhang Sanfeng regarded Baoji as Baoming at that time, so he wrote Baoming.
The reason why this conclusion was reached is that the western part of Baoji is the famous Wudang Mountain, and Zhang Sanfeng himself came to the Wudang Mountain not long after he mentioned the word, established the famous Wudang Sect, and became a generation of Taiji masters.
Make a fortune
Zhang Sanfeng himself once mentioned that his ancestor was Zhang Daoling, and it should be known that Zhang Daoling was an old Taoist ancestor, and founded wudou rice road at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, calling himself "Taiqing Xuanyuan".
With this, Zhang Sanfeng came to Wudang Mountain and established the Wudang School with what he had learned all his life, where he also founded the famous Taiji and became a generation of masters. In Jin Yong's novels, he also founded a series of unique martial arts such as Wudang Taijiquan and Taiji Sword.
As soon as the Wudang Sect was founded, it attracted countless Taoist people to come, some from the heart to believe him, and some who wanted to kick the pavilion, Zhang Sanfeng was not only strong in martial arts but also had both virtue and art, and he used his wisdom and super high martial arts to make a name for himself in the jianghu.
After Zhang Sanfeng established the Wudang Sect, he returned to the hidden mountains and forests, and his contributions to Taoism were gradually known to more people, and he became more and more famous, because the information of that era was very closed, and because of the war, many materials were lost, so he was deified, calling him immortal.
It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang once also looked for Zhang Sanfeng to seek the way to immortality, and as a result, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Hu Guang to look for Zhang Sanfeng, but he did not find a trace in his lifetime. When he was about to give up, Zhang Sanfeng appeared and gave him a handwritten letter asking him to send Zhu Yuanzhang.
Hu Guang was grateful for this and quickly handed the letter to Zhu Yuanzhang, who was very excited, but the fact was that the letter did not write the secret recipe for immortality, but instead asked him to treat the people kindly and seek the people's welfare. In history, not only Zhu Yuanzhang searched for Zhang Sanfeng, but his son Zhu Di also sent people to search for Zhang Sanfeng three times, but the reason for the search was unknown, of course, the result was not found.
epilogue
There were many people who were deified in ancient times, such as Daozu Laozi and Zhang Sanfeng, who were praised by people, which represented their outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese culture.