The previous article shared the Eastern Qing Emperor, one of the Five Elders of the Five Directions, and today shared the Southern Red Emperor Danling True Old Three Heavenly Emperors.
Speaking of the Five Elders of the Five Directions, I have to lament the impermanence of the Heavenly Dao, the five parties and five elders in the initial period of Taoism, the status of the transcendent, is the object of sacrifice of the emperors before the Three Qing Dynasty has not yet become the mainstream, but after thousands of years of development, the five parties and five elders have not been known by many people.
Five old lords
Southern Fan Bao Changyang Danling True Old, known as the Red Emperor, wearing a red jade crown on his head, wearing three qi Danyu flying clothes. Chang driving Danlong, Jianzhu Banner, from the god Bing Ding, the official will be three hundred thousand people. The spiritualization of the Upper Guide Tai Qing Xuanyuan, the Tao Rong of the Lower and the Three Qi, the Eternal Existence of All Things, and the Southern Xia of the Heavenly Essence.
Another theory is that the Southern Danling True Old Heavenly Emperor, the Trumpet, the Southern Fire De Red Emperor Yan Emperor Shennong, the Fire Emperor also, its essence of the Ying Ying, the lower Ying Heng Mountain Immortal.
"River Map" Yun: "Eastern Qing Emperor Ling Wei Yang, Mu Emperor Ye; Southern Red Emperor Chi Qi, Fire Emperor Ye; Central Yellow Emperor Han Hub, Tu Emperor Ye; Western White Emperor Bai Zhao, Jin Emperor Ye; Northern Black Emperor Ye Guangji, Water Emperor also".
There is also a saying that the Red Emperor is the Yan God Zhu Rong.
The Vulcan god blessed Rong
In fact, in the Taoist immortal system, the Five Elders do not have a specific position, but it is undeniable that the status is revered, and the reason is that the Five Elders of the Five Directions originate from the legend of the Five Emperors in ancient times.
The Southern Song Dynasty Daoist scholar Jin Yunzhong, when discussing the existence of the Five Elders, explained it in terms of Taoist qi. He said, "The Five Old Gods, the Root Sect of the Five Qi, and the Origin of the Five Elements." And its appearance in astronomers, it is five stars, or five emperors. ...... The condensation is concrete, so it is the five mountains,...... It is for the Emperor of the Five Mountains. ...... As for things, they are gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and things are emperors, and people are the five viscera, all of which are the five qi." Therefore, "In the sense of reason, Mo Ruo is called the Five Elders god in the heavens, the five emperors and the five stars in astronomy, the five emperors and the five emperors in the gods, the five holy emperors in the mountains, and the five visceral gods in the human body. ”
"Dongxuan Benxingjing" Yun: Southern Fan Bao Changyang Danling True Laojun, whose original surname is Zheng, the character Ren'an, dayan Zhiyin, was born in the Zen World Red Tomorrow. There are clouds of three qi wrapped around his body, and the vermilion bird drum covers his form. If you can speak in three days, you will know your fate. In the twelfth year, with a golden face and jade face, he abandoned the world and traveled far away from the mountains.
Yu Hanling Cave Palace met Mr. Xuanhe, and gave Ren'an a piece of "Lingbao Red Book, Five Qi Xuantian Black Emperor True Text", "Wisdom Shangpin" and "Ten Precepts" and left. Ren An then fasted for a long time, made great merits, treasured and gave alms, to save all the lacks, cut the mouth of the bird, and the merit was all over the world. Because of the floods in the country of Yu sina, the waters were terrible, and all the people were drifting. Ren An was above Hong Bo, and he took a boat to recite the "Book of Precepts" and the "Black Emperor True Text", taking the water as the opening path, and the land of hundreds of acres, birds and beasts, musk deer, tigers and leopards, and lions, all of whom went to their relatives, and knew that there was no him. It was time for the king to have a hundred mouths, climb the stairs and drift away, sighing that he could not get the degree. Seeing that the king was dying, Ren'an went on a floating boat and gave it to the king with the Zhenwen he admired. The king honored it, and the water was receded, and he was able to get by.
The king was spared, and the True Text flew into the clouds, not knowing where it was. Ren An lost the Zhenwen, retired to the first order, and died in beirong. The spirit corpse was exposed for more than thirty years, the shape was not gray, the light color was bright, and when there was no alien birth, it was under the long forest of Beijong. When the king was hunting, setting fire to the mountains, turning fire on all sides, going between his spirit corpses, within a hundred steps, the fire was not natural, the deer, the tiger and the leopard, and they did not cling to their relatives. The king went to see the spirit corpse above, there was a three-colored light, the clouds were thick, and the birds and beasts were circling. Wang Naifa surrounded the corpse and set it on fire. In the time when the corpse was set on fire, an adult was raised, sitting on top of the green smoke, pointing to nothingness, the five colors were rotten, the left and right waiters, fairy children and jade girls, more than three hundred people, solemnly arrived. Whoever is attached to the beast, and whoever is in the fire, is excessive. Ren'an took the second year of ChiMing, the age of Bing Wu, Yu Mo Tan Lou in the Middle of the Heavens Cave Of The Yue, changed his surname to Dong Fu , Secret Yue Ji Yan , by The True Old Emperor of XinanDan Fan Bao Changyang Danling , The Danling Laojun Ye.
The Five Elders are not the gods of the acquired cultivation and enlightenment, and it is found from various remaining texts that they are more circulated, and they are the innate gods that existed before they opened up the heavens and the earth, so they are called the Five Elders of the Yuan Dynasty. To this day, it is still recognized by many people, of course, I also agree, during the period may have been the five elders who went through all the disasters to help the world get out of danger. Of course, I can't talk directly to the gods.
The "Five Runes of the Book" records: "The five old emperors are all naïve gods of nature, so they are known as the five elders of the yuan, and they are not those who have learned to become true." It is also described in the DaoShu that there are five "Red Books and Jade True Texts", from which the Five Elders are in charge.
In fact, many of China's mythological stories are passed down by word of mouth by people, after generations of oral recounting, there will inevitably be lost, some people will be more true, telling you this is not right, this is wrong, in fact, it does not matter, we can share what we know out of one, so that our mythological stories can be left behind.
Well, I'm a layman, we'll see you next time.