In the book "Six Gods Lei Lei Read Jin Yong", the author summarizes Jin Yong's Qiu Zhiji as a troublemaker, who not only has the nature to dance with his teeth and claws, but also likes to do things in the rivers and lakes.
The author said that it was precisely because Qiu Chuanji passed through Niujia Village that Guo Yang's two families were destroyed, and Yang Guo's relationship with the Quanzhen Sect broke up because he first scolded Yang Guo with his face covered, and then he laid the fuse.
Not only did the author write this, but even Zhihu had such a meme that was very popular: "If Qiu Zhiji had not passed through Niujia Village, the financial crisis would not have come", which proves that Qiu Chuji was a troublemaker.
Historically, there is indeed such a real figure as Qiu Chuji, so will he be a person who causes trouble everywhere, just like what is written in the book?
After all, there is still a difference between fiction and reality, the novel is to pursue artistic effects, re-create the characters, and make the characters' personality characteristics more distinct.
The Qiu Chuji in the book is only a character created by Jin Yong, so what is the difference between the two people and another person with the same name and surname in reality?
In the Baiyun Temple in Beijing, there is a Qiuzu Hall, and there is a couplet on both sides of the door of the temple: "Eternal life, do not eat Xiaxia to seek secrets; stop killing with one word, and know that there are miracles in the world."
The miracle of "stopping killing with one word" is Qianlong's most straightforward and in-place praise for Qiu Zhiji, and it is precisely because Qiu Daochang's use of language has reduced the Mongolian iron hooves' trampling on the Central Plains.
Someone said: "He has made four hundred states and half safe, and the people who have survived are worth hundreds of billions of people", which is a compliment to Qiu Zhiji, saying that he has made the people of half the city live in peace and freedom from war.
What kind of person is Qiu Chuji, what did he say and do to make such a miracle?
Qian Daxin, a Scholar of the Qing Dynasty, was reading classics in the library when he accidentally discovered a long-lost biographical book, "Journey to the West of The True People of Changchun".
The author is a disciple of the Quanzhen Sect named Li Zhichang, and the book records in detail the reason why he followed his master Qiu Zhiji all the way west and trekked thousands of miles to reach the Snowy Mountains in the Western Regions.
In that year, the Mongol iron horse, under the command of Genghis Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, traveled all over Eurasia, had no opponents, and attacked the city and plundered the land everywhere it went, so that the territory of the Yuan Dynasty was repeatedly expanded.
After obtaining great material achievements, Genghis Khan, like other emperors, hoped that the fruits of these efforts could be enjoyed by himself all the time, and he wanted to get the guidance of high people and make himself immortal.
By chance, on his way to India, he learned that among the Quanzhen Sect of the Great Song Dynasty, there was a true person named Qiu Chuji, who not only knew the art of immortality, but also refused the summons of his enemies Jin Guo and the Southern Song Dynasty.
As if he had received the most precious treasure, Genghis Khan immediately sent emissaries from Naiman (now mongolia) to the Central Plains to summon the chief of the Qiu Division.
At that time, the 73-year-old qiu was already a senior, and after receiving a summons from Genghis Khan, he weighed the pros and cons, completely disregarded his age and long distance, and resolutely set out with 18 disciples.
In this trip, Genghis Khan wanted to live forever, while the head of the Yau Ji Dao had another plan.
Qiu Chuji was born in Qixia, Dengzhou, and the character characteristics of Shandong people who are benevolent in nature and loyal to the king and protect the country are also inherited from him, just like Guo Degang said in the commentary: "Shandong does not produce an emperor, but a loyal subject." ”
His parents died since he was a child, he lived alone in the mountains, thirsty to drink the stream, hungry to eat pine nuts, accompanied only by the wind in the pine forest, how bitter the orphan's life was, you can imagine.
It is also the early death of his parents that makes him long to become a fairy since he was a child, in his opinion, only the days of the gods are the best, and when the gods will not have the pain of life and death.
At the age of 19, Qiu Zhiji came to The Kuncheng Mountain, where he met the Taoist leader, the Tang Sixian Gu.
Tang Sixian Gu told him that she could teach him, but she was not his teacher, and mysteriously said that his real teacher looked strange and would come from the West one day.
After practicing here for a year, Qiu Zhongji learned that Wang Chongyang Zhenren was just as Tang Sixian Gu said, and he worshiped under the door, he was quite loved by the teacher, and he was deeply impressed by the teacher's true transmission, and he was proficient in poetry, medical tao, martial arts, and Dan Dao.
Less than a year after the happy days, the teacher yu turned into a fairy, and he came to the Yanxi Cave alone to cultivate, living "the East China Sea and the Western Qin for decades, thinking about morality and studying the xuan." One food in the middle of the day is full, and the night is more intense and sleepless. "Such a life.
He only ate one meal a day, slept very little, and every day in addition to learning culture classes and Taoist homework, it was here that he carried pedestrians across the river.
Qiu Chuji recorded his own cultivation process in the poem "Chiseling The Periwink of The Rock Creek":
"E'e Junling is connected to the clouds, and there are 10,000 ancient cypresses in the sky." Seocho does not allow any guest to see, and the spirit bird only calls out to others. Chisel open the cave house and descend the immortals, and refine the Dansha Hundred Monsters. Where there is a famous mountain in Fuzhou, Changchun is a small pot. ”
He had to use bitterness to temper his mind, so that one cultivation was 6 years, and Taoism and literature also grew rapidly, and then he went to Longmen Mountain to practice in seclusion for 7 years, living in a stone cave that could only accommodate one person to meditate.
In order to strengthen his exercises, Qiu Chuji would often throw copper coins from the top of the mountain to the bushes below the mountain until he found it, and such persistence and endurance were really very human.
Until now, the stone cave entrance of the Longmen Taoist Temple still has the alchemy stone used by the hill machine for grinding the heart, also called the grinding stone.
Every day, this stone was thrown from the mountain by the chief of the hill and carried back to the mountain, which also turned the stone from an irregular stone with edges and angles into a round ball.
Qiu Daochang once used this stone to encourage his disciples: "Distinguish a mixed pearl, the cloud niche has seen kung fu for seven years; concentrating on diligent practice, enlightenment is the Longmen Road."
This also corresponds to the saying, "The road to success is not crowded, because there are not many people who insist", and Qiu Daochang, who is such a person who can persist, has made him a model of mortal immortal cultivation.
After 7 years of cultivation, Qiu Daochang, receiving an invitation from JingZhao's army, came to Chang'an to preside over the construction of Wang Chongyang's ancestral temple, and when he returned to the mountain, the cave was filled with purple light.
One day, when he was chatting with a Daoist friend surnamed Yang, he was found by the Daoist friend that there was no shadow in the sun, and this Daoist friend quickly knelt down and congratulated Qiu Daochang on his complete merit and had become an immortal.
Only then did Qiu Daochang understand that it was time for him to go down the mountain.
Time passed, and after seven more years of Qiu Daochang's descent, he became the fifth head of the Quanzhen Sect, and in the 24 years since then, he has founded the Longmen Sect and widely disseminated the Taoist ideas he has cultivated.
This also allowed Genghis Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, who was far away in the desert, to learn of the great strength of Qiu Daochang, and would send people to send autographed edicts three times from far away, hoping that Daochang could come to Mongolia for an interview.
Qiu Daochang was impressed by Genghis Khan's sincerity, and then looked at the sword soldiers in the world, the places where the Mongol iron horses had attacked, burned and looted, and washed the city in blood, and after weighing it, he still decided to risk his personal safety and venture west.
This stretch of the journey, really can be described as a long road, the book records that this group of 19 people, a total of 5 sections of the journey, it took nearly two years to reach Genghis Khan's camp in the Snowy Mountains.
In February 1221, the 73-year-old Qiu Chuji, with 18 disciples of Li Zhichang and Yin Zhiping, set out from the Chaoyuanguan in Dezhou, Shandong, and spent nearly two months to reach the "Hanchen King's Tent" in the northeast of present-day Inner Mongolia.
Here they repaired for half a month, continued westward, and spent more than three months to reach the next place to stop, Jinshan, which is now the Altai Mountains.
After half a month of preparing the supplies needed for the next leg of the trip, the group once again embarked on a long road and walked for 50 days to reach the city of Alima.
After the repair, they spent another 50 days to go to Miskan, which is now Tanzanian in Uzbekistan.
At this time, Qiu Daochang has gone from the spring at the time of departure to the current winter, where the weather is bad and it is not suitable to continue westward, so he has to rest here and wait for the weather to improve before moving forward.
This time, they spent the whole winter here, until the spring of the following year, when the flowers bloomed, and Qiu Daochang and Yelü Chucai took two outings here in the spring, and then they continued to set out.
During the visit, Qiu Dao made a long poetic hair, wrote a lot of poems, and mailed a poem "Poetry to oriental Daoist friends" to a distant friend, in which he introduced the general situation of this road:
"At that time, it was facing the seaside city, and the sea was not yet peaceful. Moral desires rise thousands of miles away, and the wind and dust do not fear the nine deeds. "It's been a hard journey from a small seaside town, but for the sake of preaching, I'm not afraid to walk such a long way.
The trip took 20 days to reach the end of the trip to Genghis Khan's Snowy Mountains, located in the Hindu Kush Mountains in what is now Afghanistan.
The meeting between Yau and Genghis Khan is known in history as the "Dragon horse meeting" because the Yau Dao Zodiac is a dragon and the Genghis Khan Zodiac sign is a horse.
At the historic meeting, starting with Genghis Khan consulting on the art of immortality, Qiu Replied, "There is only the way of hygiene, and there is no elixir of immortality." ”
Genghis Khan admired the frankness of Qiu Daochang, so that in the next relationship between the two, just like the old friends, Qiu Daochang, in the process of the two people's free conversation, conveyed to Genghis Khan the Taoist ideas of "respecting heaven and loving the people" and "taking purity of heart and widowhood as the key".
And persuaded Genghis Khan not to think of killing, "those who want to go to the day, they must care not to kill", Genghis Khan was very appreciative of the advice of the chief of the Hill, he saw that the chief of the road will be called "god".
Genghis Khan often praised Qiu Daochang, often saying to his subordinates, "Heaven has given Xian Weng to yu Zhi", not only that, he also let Qiu Zhiji manage the World's Taoism and exempt the Taoist priests from taxation and service.
Nearly a year passed quickly, and Qiu Daochang also successfully persuaded Genghis Khan to issue a stop killing order and stop killing innocents indiscriminately, which is Qianlong praising Qiu Zhiji's "one word to stop killing."
After Qiu returned to Yanjing, he presided over the Tianchang Temple, which Genghis Khan changed to Changchun Palace after Qiu Daochang, which is now the Baiyun Temple in Beijing.
Qiu Daochang, at the age of 80, was feathered in the Baiyun Temple, and it is said that the whole city of Beijing at that time was filled with incense for three consecutive days, which was called a spectacle by the world.
And Genghis Khan, who was thousands of miles away, died in the military camp of Liupan Mountain after 5 days of long feathering in Qiudao, and went to Tengger, which was also a miracle.
Later, in order to commemorate this Taoist real person who saved the people from water and fire, the people set the nineteenth day of the first month of his birth as the "Yanjiu Festival", and every year on this day, a grand celebration will be held.
Qiu Used his life to learn and preach, only for the benefit of the world, but did not consider personal interests, as Qu Yuan said: "Even if you are good in your heart, although you have died nine times, you still have no regrets." ”
It is precisely because of this that during the 24 years that Qiu Chuji was in charge of teaching the Quanzhen Sect, Taoism reached its peak, and he himself became one of the "Seven Truths" of the Quanzhen Sect.