As we all know, the Chinese folk belief in immortals is basically the Taoist belief in immortals, in the Taoist immortal lineage, the group of immortals can be described as very large, all kinds of various immortals, that is, everything, countless, but there is a problem, that is- so many immortals, where do they live?
Regarding the place where the gods live, some friends may be able to think of two words, one is "cave heaven" and the other is "blessed land". Yes, Dongtian and Blessed Land are the places where the gods and immortals live, but what is the difference between these two places? Are the immortals who live there on the same road?
In fact, the meaning of Dongtian and Blessed Land is basically the same. Generally speaking, when it comes to the residence of the gods, people often do not only say Dongtian alone, nor do they only say blessed land alone, but they should be put together and called "Dongtian Blessed Land". Dongtianfudi refers to the place where the gods live, of course, this is a general reference, in other words, Dongtianfudi is synonymous with the place where the gods live.
However, if you taste it carefully, there is still some difference between Dongtian and Fudi, otherwise, Taoists would not divide the dwelling places of the gods into "Ten Cave Heavens", "Thirty-six Small Cave Heavens" and "Seventy-two Blessed Lands".
Now that there is such a division, what is the difference between them? To put it simply, the "Ten Great Cave Heavens" are inhabited by great gods located at the top of the immortal lineage, and they have high status and great power, which is not comparable to ordinary immortals. The immortals who lived in the "Thirty-Six Little Cave Heavens" had a slightly lower status, but they still belonged to the category of "Shang Immortals".
As for the "Seventy-Two Blessed Lands", they are inhabited by Taoist zhenren, and the so-called "zhenren", in layman's terms, is the immortals cultivated by people, such as Zhuangzi, Liezi, Pengzu, Magu, Ge Hong, Lü Dongbin, Wang Chongyang, Zhang Sanfeng, and so on.
If the entire circle of immortals is regarded as a company, then the people who live in the "Ten Cave Heavens" are the senior leaders such as the chairman, the general manager and the deputy general manager, who live in the "Thirty-Six Small Cave Days", the department managers of various departments, and the middle-level leaders, and the grass-roots leaders who live in the "Seventy-Two Blessed Lands", which are probably the workshop directors and team leaders.
At this point, the second question comes - is there any other place for the gods to live besides the heavens and the blessed land? The answer is yes, that is, ten continents and three islands. The so-called "ten continents" refers to ten continents such as Yingzhou, Xuanzhou and Changzhou, and as for the "three islands", it refers to Penglai Island, Abbot Island and Kunlun Island.
So, what kind of gods and immortals live on these ten continents and three islands? We know that whether it is Dongtian or Fudi, they all belong to the Immortal Mountains on land, and the Ten Continents and Three Islands are in the sea and cosmic space that is extremely far away from the land, where there are few people, which can simply be regarded as "Xanadu", and the immortals who live in this "Xanadu" are naturally some "Xanadu Immortals".
The above is the question of the place where the immortals live, it turns out that in addition to the cave heavens and the blessed land, there are also places such as the ten continents and three islands, and it seems that the gods and immortals live very scattered. Dear friends, what are your different views on the topic of the gods' dwelling places? Welcome to leave a message to discuss, come and publish your high opinion!
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