Xuanzhi and Xuan, the door of all the wonders, the history has developed to the present, and the legend of the Taoist method has never stopped.
In the eyes of most people, this kind of thing is a deceptive doctrine trick, and whoever believes in it is a "great injustice." But sometimes when you think about it carefully, it makes people feel that it provides people with different perspectives on understanding everything in the world and the laws of nature.
True and false, false and false, after all, people still have a comprehensive understanding of the world, and they will become more rational and wise.
The prevalence of metaphysics in the feudal era was largely due to the lack of scientific and technological productivity, and people did not have a basis for believing.
Everyone is eager to live in an ideal state, and in order to show a beautiful expectation for the future, such a theory has slowly emerged.
In fact, many people can't understand, it's like growing food.
Nowadays, as long as they are planted under the guidance of science, they will achieve a bumper harvest, but the only thing the people can do in the feudal era is to constantly pray to God that there must be no natural disasters coming, and the fundamental reasons for the restrictions of scientific and technological development.
Here is just a simple example, in the feudal era, people's worship of Taoism was by no means more than this level.
According to relevant documents, there was such a female Taoist priest during the Ming Dynasty, who claimed to be a "feathered flying immortal" at the age of 23. The people who learned of this news went to the scene, and was the final outcome really as she said?
"Talented Woman" Becomes "Taoist"
Her name is Wang Xizhen, if you really want to use an idiom to describe her life, the author thinks that "everyone is beautiful" is the most appropriate.
In the feudal era, it is reasonable to say that after reaching the age, Wang Xizhen will marry the "husband" that her parents are looking for, and then have children, stay at home, and live the life of a husband and a godson, after all, she does not worry about food and clothing.
Wang Xizhen's father was more open-minded and completely dependent on his daughter on the issue of marriage.
Misfortune and happiness are always with each other, which seems to give Wang Xizhen more choices, but she did not expect that she would eventually end in "tragedy".
Wang Xizhen met a man, and the two sides were very speculative, and after the consent of their parents, they were officially identified as "fiancés".
Just when he was about to enter the palace of marriage, Wang Xizhen's fiancé suddenly died violently without warning. Wang Xizhen, who was infinitely beautiful in his heart, all vanished after learning this news.
The reality is so unsatisfactory, why stay here? She began to try to divert her attention.
In the process, Wang Xizhen came into contact with some Taoist books, and she slowly learned that she was "Kefu Life".
Since it has been labeled like this, hasn't lifelong happiness come to an end? She wanted more and more to get out of this world.
By chance, Wang Xizhen met a Taoist monk and immediately began his personal practice.
This practice was only six years, and it was estimated that Wang Xizhen herself did not expect that her desires and selfishness had been overcome, and her spiritual level had also come to a higher realm.
Under the guidance of her master, Wang Xizhen began to travel around the folk to preach, and there were many followers along the way, all of whom were accepted by her and became her own apprentices.
In just half a year, she made a name in the jianghu and became a Taoist priest often mentioned by the people.
From the perspective of a bystander, Wang Xizhen may really be as Dao Dao said: see through the laws of the world, return to peace in the heart, and transcend the world.
Even so, she never gave up her efforts and kept moving towards the highest realm, that is, the feathered flying immortal.
"Immortal" or "Dead"
In Wang Xizhen's concept, if she wanted to practice purely on her own mind, it would be difficult to achieve a high breakthrough, so she began to take the so-called "elixir" to accelerate the cultivation process.
On the surface, it seems to make yourself flutter, but in fact, it is the sacrifice of the individual body.
Wang Xizhen not only did not notice this, but felt that he was getting closer and closer to Fei Xian, and it would take a while to achieve true "feathering".
Looking at it now, this is really ridiculous, but Wang Xizhen does not think so.
She asked her disciples to go on a folk tour to preach, telling herself that she was about to be feathered into a flying immortal, and then she could go to the scene to watch and witness this moment together.
Three months later, Wang Xizhen sat on the rock in advance, and nearly 100,000 people came to watch the scene.
Sitting cross-legged, practicing, taking the elixir, and then practicing, before and after for more than an hour, until the final "sitting".
The disciples and the audience all applauded to celebrate the success of Wang Xizhen's "Feather flying immortal", but was the truth really as people saw?
There was a disciple who had not yet practiced, and he noticed that Wang Xizhen's face was somewhat whitish and his lips were black.
Isn't this an obvious symptom of intoxication? What does it have to do with the Feather Flying Immortals?
Because the momentum was too large, the imperial court also sent relevant doctors to the scene for identification, and the final results were: overdose and death.
Beauty eventually became a "tragedy", but from another point of view, Wang Xizhen also fulfilled her wish: to break away from the world.
All kinds of disobedience let her carry to face, perhaps looking a little pale. As for the "feathered flying immortal", it is just a "drama code" added to the circulation of later generations.
Laughter in the world
In the final analysis, this may be due to the atmosphere of the feudal era.
At that time, the idea of male superiority over female inferiority prevailed, and just through Wang Xizhen, you can see how many shadows are refracted. The idea of "becoming immortal" is understandable, because helplessness and liberation are their original intentions, but if you think about it, can this really solve all the problems?
At the end of the article, I would like to give you a sentence: to think about the basis of all things, to understand the laws of nature.
No matter what problems you look at, you must start from the perspective of "dialectics", good and bad can only be conclusive after a comprehensive understanding. We must inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional culture, and we naturally need to abandon the superstitious theory of bad.
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