This baby once appeared in fairy tales such as The Journey to the West's Romance of Gods. As we know, the old gentleman in Journey to the West usually likes to refine the elixir and play the whole magic weapon. The Monkey King stumbled into the old man's Dan room before making a scene in the Heavenly Palace, and took five gourds of Dan medicine by himself. The scientific name of this Dan medicine is "Jiuzhuan Dan", and it is also called "Jiuzhuan Shen Huan Pill" because it has the function of bringing back the dead.
/ac4bd 1 1373 f 08202 DBC ac7 f 640 fbfbedaa 64 1b9a？ X-BCE-process = image/resize, m _ lfit, w _ 450, h _ 600, limit _ 1/quality, q _ 85 readers should still remember that the Monkey King went to the palace 33 days ago to ask the old gentleman in Taishang for a pill. Later, the Monkey King had to give artificial respiration to the King (the plot in the TV series was changed) because Zhu Bajie had bad breath before eating people. For this miraculous effect, the book says:
The Great Sage stepped forward, put a Lei Gong mouth on the emperor's lips, blew into his throat, descended the stairs, turned to Mingtang, went to Dantian, and fell back to the Neofeather Palace from Yongquan. Whoosh? Dental caries? Strong? Wang turned over in anger, punched and kicked, and shouted "Master"!
/b 80 14 a 90 f 603738d 3 14 e 5 aebb 8 1bb 05 1f 9 19 ECF 7？ X-BCE-process = image/resize, m _ lfit, w _ 450, h _ 600, limit _ 1/quality, q _ 85 We know that the king died three years ago, but he came back to life after eating one of the old gentleman's elixirs. This is amazing.
Bridges like this have also appeared many times in the Romance of the Gods. For example, in the 38th time, Jiang Ziya was injured in the middle of the front by Li Xingba, one of the four saints of Kowloon Island. Later, Wang Mo injured him in the middle of the back and rolled down the hill and died. Later, thanks to Manjusri, he saved his life with Dan medicine. In fact, this elixir is a nine-turn elixir.
/0b 55b 3 19 ebc 4b 745 cccce 1 DFC 4 fc 1e 178 b 82 159 a？ X-BCE-process = image/resize, m _ lfit, w _ 450, h _ 600, limit _ 1/quality, q _ 85 are generalized here. Nine-turn elixir is considered to be immortal in Taoist belief. There is a difference between external danger and internal danger. Moreover, Dan is the so-called nine-turn Dan.
It is called Jiuzhuan Dan because it takes nine times to be refined. But from the first turn to the ninth turn, although they are all called elixirs, their efficacy is different.
According to Ge Hong's "Bao Puzi" at that time:
Once you turn Dan, three years' work will be immortal. Two turns to Dan, two years of service will be immortal. Three changes to the elixir of life, one year's service leads to immortality. Four turns to Dan, and six months of service will be immortal. Five turns to Dan, a hundred days of service, let you live forever. Six turns to elixir, forty days elixir. Seven turns to elixir, thirty days elixir. Eight turns to Dan for ten days. Nine turns to Dan, and three days of service will be immortal.
Nine-turn elixir, originally taken by monks, can be promoted to immortality after eating. But later, many magical functions were added. There is an article entitled "The Jade Ding in Xishu is a real person who returns to Dan from Jiu Zhuan" in Daozang, and its effect on Jiu Zhuan is recorded as follows:
Hit the crane top with a grain of Dan so that the good shooter can shoot it. If the sun misses, it will be all right. Using this method to treat a disease, such as the wind blowing clouds, has a wonderful effect of bringing back the dead and rejuvenating the youth, and its test is endless.
Therefore, the fairy tales of Journey to the West such as The Romance of Gods can be used as a reference.
Today, we know that the so-called nine-turn elixir is just an elixir refined by ancient immortal Taoism, and its efficacy cannot be taken seriously.
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