If you live in the distant Qin and Han Dynasties, one day you have a headache and brain fever and plan to go to see a doctor, you will most likely face the following three choices:
The first belongs to the welfare of the whole people, completely free, and on the fifteenth day of the first month of the month, the official will regularly hold a ritual to dance the gods and pray for the relief of the vast number of people who have suffered from illness.
You can go singing and dancing with everyone to try your luck, as to whether there is an effect, then go with the flow, at least you can exercise to improve your immunity.
The second is the affordable blessing therapy, where for a little money, the alchemists will burn the rune paper and melt it in water, and you have to sincerely repent of your sins and drink it all.
It is said that the effect of this therapy is very good, all the praise is not bad reviews, think about it, those who intend to give bad reviews are estimated to be sick and dead.
The third is expensive drug therapy, where doctors use all sorts of inexplicable things to boil a thick soup with a suspicious color and smell for you to drink, and then watch with interest whether you will die on the spot.
At that time, Chinese medicine was not even in its embryonic stage, and what pathological efficacy had not been learned, and what was emphasized was to vigorously produce miracles. As for whether you plan to die of illness or drink medicine and poison, you are not responsible!
In ancient society, more than 90% of people could only be called humanoid cattle and horses or even inferior to livestock, and their whole lives were like pigs in the pigsty of modern farms.
Originally, it was also so confused, but as a result, the Xiaoice period at the end of the Han Dynasty came, natural disasters and man-made plagues ran rampant, the people of the empire fell in pieces, and the farm owners, no, Emperor Han Zhangdi could not sit still.
It should be said that during his tenure of office, economic construction was quite good, but the money was spent on border defense. Besides, the epidemic has long been uncontrollable, what can the emperor do?
Counting on a doctor? The treatment plan given by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor who was the Taishou of Changsha at the time, was soup medicine plus incantation. However, his Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases deals with the plague at all because the donkey's head is not on the horse's mouth, and the mantra is even more incomprehensible.
In Sun Simiao's "Thousand Golden Wings Fang", there is a chapter on the prohibition of spells, including hundreds of spells, of which zhang Zhongjing invented one, I take a paragraph for everyone to feel:
I know astronomy and geography, and the Lady of Heaven and Earth teaches me that forbidden names can forbid epidemic ghosts.
Ru came from the east and was called a dog, and when he entered the human body, he leaned on his heart, and the divine master cursed Ru Ru to walk by himself.
Ru came from the south and was called a sheep, and when he entered the human body, he leaned on the liver and intestines, and the divine master cursed Ru Ru to die by himself.
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At the moment of the seven pieces of kedou, the mouth is the gate of heaven that must not be opened in vain,
If you spit on the oriental A yi wood, wood fold;
If the fire of the southern propylene is spit on, the fire is extinguished;
Liujia Liuyi epidemic ghost self-explanatory, six C6 Ding zhi ghost name,
The six ghosts of the six plagues die, and the six ghosts of the six seas and six hundred ghosts come out quickly,
Hurry like a law!
Zhang Zhongjing's point of view is very clear, the disease is because there is a plague ghost, the treatment method is to give a ghost name when the patient drinks medicine, and then everyone will be together.
The operation of the medical saint is as fierce as a tiger, the result? There were nearly two hundred people in the Zhang family, and only forty or fifty survived after the plague.
Well, it's not to blame the doctor, no one can do it in one step, history always has its limitations.
But the disease is still raging, the epidemic is the order, in order to protect the health and safety of the broad masses of the people, His Majesty the Emperor decided to comprehensively upgrade the medical welfare system of the Eastern Han Dynasty, from the 1.0 version of the god of the dance to the 2.0 version of chanting spells and drinking spell water, please rest assured, this money country out!
Of course, how to pronounce mantras and how to write spells are all fairly cutting-edge technical tasks, and not everyone can do it. Fortunately, the Eastern Han Empire was full of talents, and the experts who were deeply trusted by the broad masses of the people suddenly found out two, one named Wei Boyang and the other named Zhang Ling.
We now tend to understand the controversy of a hundred schools of thought as cultural prosperity, but in fact, it is just the opposite. The controversy of a hundred schools of thought is a cultural crisis that will inevitably arise after the development of Chinese civilization to a certain extent.
The Hundred Sons and Hundred Schools have repeatedly argued from all angles, should the state be as heaven-oriented as before (inner saint and outer king), or should it keep pace with the times and be people-oriented (internal law and outer Confucianism)?
However, no one could convince anyone, and the original moral dispute of politeness soon became a warlord melee in which who had a loud voice and who had a thick arm was justified. As a result, the road was split into a hundred, the world was in chaos, and the entire East Asian continent was full of people rolling over.
The Conclusion given by the Confucians is that people are people-oriented, and since people are to be taken as high as heaven, they are bound to be pulled up as high as the heavens. The first mortal to be given a divine personality was Confucius, whom Confucians called King Su.
So what about the emperor, is it the heavens or the emperor?
Heavenly induction! Dong Zhongshu, the chief engineer of the Hundred Schools of Confucianism and Culture Movement, solemnly declared: The emperor is the heaven itself, the virtues of heaven and the son of heaven are equal to each other, if the emperor has morality, then the world is naturally auspicious and peaceful.
But what about the other way around, if there is a natural disaster such as an earthquake or a flood, does that mean that the emperor is very immoral?
This reasoning that both positive and negative were true could make Emperor Wu of Han angry and almost cut Dong Zhongshu.
Taoists practice the heavenly-based idea of Heavenly Dao, and Lao Tzu said: Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are dogs. The creation of nature, the evolution of all things, is not subject to anyone's subjective likes and dislikes.
Then whether the earthquake or the flood, whether it is a blessing or a curse, a benefit or a harm, is a matter of course. The only thing people can do is to follow the way and face it calmly!
Lao Tzu said, whether you are a human being or not, you must conform to the way of heaven and not go against the heavens. This made Emperor Wu of Han angry again, fortunately Lao Tzu died early, otherwise he would have really been cut down by him.
After all, it is no longer the time of the small countries and widows in the ancient times, the country must be strong, the civilization must be progressive, and the system of ruling by doing nothing can no longer conform to the trend of history.
Taoist self-cultivation can be, Qi family can, and the world is really not!
At this point, all the theoretical research results handed down in the ancient times were uniformly divided into two, and almost all the sons and hundreds of families were divided, or Confucianism or Taoism, and each embarked on a completely different development path.
Among them, the most affected were the alchemists who mastered the most sophisticated and cutting-edge scientific and technological forces at that time!
The right-leaning alchemists are conservatives, they insist on taking the sky as the foundation, believing that God will not die of hunger and blind birds, and the reason why people get sick is because the realm is not in place.
So how does the realm come into place? After all, everyone has their own affairs, and no one has so much spare time to follow the immortals to cultivate, right?
It's okay, we have the elixir!
These alchemists who are keen on alchemy believe that everything in nature can be condensed into Dan medicine after being refined, and people can be immortal after taking it, which is called chemistry by later generations, not the Taoism called Waidan.
In fact, chinese medicine, as most people understand it, is a by-product of the ancient sages' cultivation of Taoism.
There are two main schools of Chinese medicine, Qi Bo and HuangDi are one school, and Shennong and Yi Yin are the other. The Qihuang sect ruled the body with the Tao, and the Shennong sect ruled the body with soldiers.
To rule the body with the Tao, it takes the ancient saints to do it. The basic principle of chinese medicine to cure diseases is that the Yellow Emperor said that poison attacks evil, the so-called poison of medicine, the evil of attacking people, and the principle of fighting with soldiers is the same.
Nowadays, Chinese medicine is basically all military, which also causes people to have a common cognitive misunderstanding that Chinese medicine is Chinese medicine, and Chinese medicine is Chinese medicine, which is not the case.
Some people also say that Chinese medicine is toxic, so Chinese medicine is not good, which is completely unconscionable. Since it is a soldier, the knife has no blade, the gun has no tip, how to fight a war, the medicine is not poisonous, and how to attack evil?
The aforementioned Wei Boyang, who is the master of the alchemist alchemist, wrote a book "Zhou Yi Ginseng Tongqi", from Zhou Yi to the way of Huang Laozhuang to the way of Shennong, expounding the theoretical basis for alchemy not only to cure diseases, but also to eat alive into immortals, and was called the king of the Wangu DanJing by the cultivators of later generations!
Don't underestimate the abilities of these ancient chemists, tofu, five stones, and gunpowder, which are all by-products of their alchemy. The efficacy of the main product elixir is also very good, anyway, the emperors who ate death in history will definitely not be less than twenty or thirty.
Emperor Han Zhangdi thought about it, or forget it, alchemy is really too expensive.
It is said that the King of Yan Zhao, who had a horse bone in Qianjin City, had spent twenty years refining a deer with the strength of the country, and after eating it, he was feathered and ascended to heaven
In short, the welfare medical insurance of the Eastern Han Dynasty is absolutely unrealistic to want to engage in alchemy projects, and it is estimated that everyone will die of poverty before waiting for the elixir to be cultivated.
The left-leaning alchemists belong to the radical faction, and no matter how bold and prolific people are, they will triumph over the heavens! Like The Confucians, these people also recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors. The aforementioned Zhang Ling wrote a copy of Lao Tzu's Notes on Thinking of Er, so a second mortal who was given a divine personality appeared, and Lao Tzu became taishang Laojun.
Since ancient times, the supreme god of Huaxia has been haotian god, but it is only a synonym for heaven, not a true personified god.
The deification of Lao Tzu, and the subsequent development of a hierarchical bureaucratic system of immortals, completely changed the spiritual world of Chinese.
If there is a disease, there is a ghost, and if there is a ghost, there is a god to clean up!
Drink too much headache? Three corpses, please Pengzu!
Can't pull out the sticks? Zi Gu made a mistake and asked her husband Zhang Sanlang to beat her!
Feeling like your body is hollowed out? Fox spirit, please Huiyuan kidney treasure, he is good for me!
How to please? Drawing rune paper,
How to draw? First you have to have a piece of paper!
At first, paper was very expensive, and ordinary people could not afford to use it. It was not until Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty improved the papermaking technique that the cheap and sufficient amount of paper entered thousands of households.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the illiteracy rate was nearly 90%, and the purpose of buying paper was certainly not to learn. Although I can't write, I always draw.
But everyone's painting level is always uneven, in order to avoid the immortals from not understanding what the soul painter is painting, a whole set of graphic languages has been invented.
The drawing symbol does not know the trick, but it provokes the ghost god to laugh, and if the drawing symbol knows the trick, it frightens the ghost god.
For example, the three points at the top of the paper represent the sun and moon, the wavy line represents water, the cross line represents wood, the straight line represents earth, etc., in short, it is very abstract, and it is estimated that Picasso is also confused.
This thing is really useless, because Zhang Ling said that the rune paper must be used with spells to have an effect, please leave the professional work to the professionals to do!
So Zhang Ling invented a standardized spell system, which has been passed down to this day.
From his point of view, most of the mantras began with "pardon" or "pardon" and ended with "such as the law", and the content was generally that there was some work to be arranged for so-and-so immortals to do.
Some people say that the law is a little ghost of Lei Bu, because he ran fast before being sent by Taoism. This is a bit of an inversion of the cart before the horse, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Department of Lei Bu had not yet been invented, and the Five Lei Zhengfa was also something that Zhang Ling had only concocted before his death, not to mention what Taoism.
If you travel back and ask Zhang Ling: Did you found Taoism? Zhang Ling would never understand what you were talking about, and he would collect five buckets of rice. But if you dare to ask: Did you create the Wudou Rice Sect? He should have summoned a thunderbolt to chop you on the spot.
Wudou Rice Sect is not a good word, it is not lethal, and it is extremely insulting. Then Confucianism still has to send the teacher two pieces of jerky to school, why didn't anyone call Confucius the master of the two pieces of meat?
In fact, Zhang Ling did not know that he was worshipped as the first generation of Heavenly Masters by his descendants, and it is very likely that he himself did not participate in the Wudou Rice Sect, just because his grandson Zhang Lu, yes, was the Hanzhong Zhang Lu in the early Three Kingdoms period, who rose up in the chaos at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
At that time, there was Zhang Jiao of Taiping Road in the east and Five Buckets of Rice teaching Zhang Lu in the west, and although both of these people were surnamed Zhang, they did not have a relationship with half a dime.
In order to overpower Zhang Jiao, Zhang Lu falsely passed on his grandfather Zhang Ling to be recorded by Taishang, posthumously named his grandfather Zhang Ling the first generation of Heavenly Masters, and added a Dao character to his grandfather's name, and Zhang Ling became Zhang Daoling.
Zhang Lu means that he is the third generation of Dao who is rooted in Miao Hong, much more powerful than Zhang Jiao's mud legs. In order to enjoy this IP exclusively, he deliberately stated that from now on, only their old Zhang family can have the right to communicate with God on the day and hereditary.
However, these are not of any egg use
Zhang Ling was a civil servant of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, responsible for universal medical insurance in the Eastern Han Dynasty. "Pardon" is a very formal official language, denoting the highest order issued by the emperor himself. The phrase "such as the law" was very common in the edicts of the time, meaning that subordinates must strictly follow the law, otherwise they will be punished for violating the law.
To put it bluntly, Zhang Ling's spell system is a red-headed document officially issued by the Eastern Han Dynasty!
This form of medical treatment, which is popular with the people and is popular with the people, has been widely praised by all sectors of society as soon as it has been promoted.
Emperor Han's son Emperor Han he was very sure of Zhang Ling's ability to work, and the treatment he gave was very high, and he ordered Zhang Ling to be a taifu and a county official!
In the two Han Dynasties, the marquis must have military merit.
During the period of Zhang He and the Second Emperor, there were only two marquises, one was Ban Chao, the Marquis of Dingyuan, who reopened the Western Regions with thirty-six people, and the other was Zhang Ling, but where did his military merit come from?
In the legend of Zhang Daoling, there are countless records similar to how many demons were killed and exorcised from some places, and we can understand that this is the process of military missionary work under official support, the suppression of heresies and heresies, the breaking of feudal superstitions in the border and poor areas of the old and the young, and the unification of thinking in the process of integrating everyone into the medical insurance system of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
However, things became more and more strange, and emperors of Han and Emperor Han first made Zhang Ling the governor of Ji County, and Zhang Ling resigned. This is a good understanding, at that time, it was all such a practice, one to express their modesty, and the other to increase their own value.
Emperor He of Han made Zhang Ling the second time he made Ji County, and Zhang Ling continued to resign. This is not easy to understand, according to the convention, the emperor should be treated more to show leniency and kindness to his courtiers.
The Han And Emperor made Zhang Ling the third time he was made the governor of Ji County, and Zhang Ling ran away directly. Everyone was in an uproar, are these two dead-eyed? Wouldn't it be better to add a few points and let the points go.
Perhaps in the eyes of Emperor Han he, your military merit is at most enough to seal the level of Ji County, how can the national famous instrument be with people at will? Couldn't have been more!
But in Zhang Ling's view, this was far from enough, and when he raised Taishang Laojun to the same height as the Haotian God officially sacrificed by the Eastern Han Dynasty, he had already taken the first crucial step.
The great affairs of the kingdom are in the worship and the rong. The Emperor is the Son of Heaven, the human agent of God Haotian, so what about me? I am also the agent of Taishang Laojun in the human world, what position should I go to?
Two sets of sacrificial structures represent these two ideologies, and the two ideologies mean that the great schism is imminent, in fact, when Shidao officially entered the political arena that day, the Eastern Han Empire was only seventeen years away from the collapse!
The selfish desires of ordinary people are boundless, and the selfish desires of cultivator Zhang Ling are about to push thousands of people who are already struggling in the depths of the water into an even darker abyss!