Zhang Daoling is the 8th grandson of Zhang Liang - also talking about Zhang Daoling and Zhang Liang's hometown

"Zhang Daoling", that is, Zhang Ling, was the founder of the "Five Buckets of Rice Dao", and the Taoists called him Zu Tianshi, Zhengyi Zhenren, and The Great Master of the Three Heavenly Fujiao, and was the 8th grandson of Zhang Liang, one of the "Three Masters of the Early Han Dynasty".

Li Fang of the Northern Song Dynasty quoted the "Immortal Transmission collection" from the Northern Song Dynasty Li Fang's "Taiping Guangji, Volume VI, Zhang Zifang" to record: Zhang Liang "his grandson Dao Ling Dao, towards the kunlun sunset, zifang to Yan." According to the text, the place where the Taoist sage Zhang Liang (Zifang) lived in the day and where the 8th grandson Zhang Daoling was a monk was in the Kunlun Mountains. According to Kao, this Kunlun Mountain is not the Kunlun Mountain of the present-day people, but the Kunlun Mountain of Daliang (in the area of present-day Kaifeng, Henan) before the Xia Dynasty.

In Taoist culture, there is a saying that the so-called "Nine Saints and Seven Truths" worship the "Kunlun Mountain" after the enlightenment. The Northern Song Dynasty Zhang Junfang's "Yundi Qilu , Volume 114 • Biography of the Western Queen Mother" quotes the Han Dynasty 'Shangshu Emperor's Examination Period' to record: "The kingdom of the Queen Mother is in the wilderness of the Western Wilderness. Xi Maoying, Zi Shushen, Wang Zhen, Zi Zi Deng, Zhang Daoling, Zi Fu Han. The Nine Holy Seven Truths, all those who have received the Tao, are all emperors of the Queen Mother in the Kunling Tombs. The "Western Wilderness" in the text refers to the "Yan", "SongCheng" and "Yongcheng" of the "Great Wilderness of the West" in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and its "奄", "崦嵫" and "墉城" are all specific place names within the jurisdiction of the ancient Da Liang.

Zhang Liang was an important historical figure from the end of the Warring States to the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, and together with Xiao He and Han Xin, he was called "the Three Masters of the Early Han Dynasty", and was praised by later historians as "Seeking Saints" and "Good Looks". As for Zhang Liang's hometown, because the "Records of History" and the "Book of Han" only say that "Zhang Liang was born of the father of the city", there is no clear record of where it is, thus leaving sequelae. At present, Henan Yanjin, Xinzheng, Yuzhou, Yuxian, Baofeng, and Anhui Boxian are all called their hometowns.

The people of Yanjin, Henan, called Zhang Liangshiju who lived here. The Chronicle of Yanjin County records that "Zhang Liangshi lived in Yanyan and established the Zai chancellor's mansion on this hill, that is, Tianzhou City". "Tianzhou City", also known as "Taishan Tianzhou". "Taishan", that is, the ancient "Tai (Yi) Mountain" and "Kunlun Mountain"; "Tianzhou City" is in the northwest of the Kunlun Mountains in Kaifeng, now Liuhou Village, Qijie Township, Yuanyang County, Henan, and is the birthplace of Zhang Liang. There are the ruins of "Taishan Tianzhou City", Zhang Liang Temple, and the tomb of Zhang Liang's mother "Korean Mother" Lady Zhou. Zhang Liang's tomb is located in Baiyun Mountain, on the border between the western part of Lankao and the northwestern part of Qixian County, Henan. In Liuba County, Shaanxi, there is a Zhangliang Temple (Ancestral Hall) and its crown tomb.

It is said that Zhang Liang's ancestors thus moved to present-day Xinzheng, Henan. According to the "Genealogy of the Zhang Clan of Qinghe", Zhang Liang's father Zhang Pingju (張平居) was "廪延", in the northeast of present-day Yanjin, Henan. Zhang Liang's ancestor Zhang Mengtan and his eldest son moved from "Liaoyan" to the "Negative Relatives Hill" in the land of South Korea (the capital of the country is in present-day Xinzheng, Henan Province), that is, the "Negative Relatives Hill" about 50 miles south of Shamen Village in Xinxiang Xiaodian Town.

However, the dominant view is from Yucheng County, Henan. In this regard, the Tang "Chronicle of The Land", "History of Justice", and "History of Suoyin" determined: "Zhang Liang is from the father of the city, and the father of the city is thirty miles east of The City County, and Han Di is also.". The Cihai (1980 edition) and the Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Chinese Celebrities also say that Zhang Liang was "a native of the Western Han Dynasty "The Father of the City (present-day Eastern YuXian County, Henan Province)". The "Henan Volume and Wuxian Chapter" of the CCTV Science and Education Channel's "Chinese Image Fangzhi" is also certainly a dongren of present-day Yuxian County, Henan Province