Taoism believes that there is a sequence of cultivation and there are different levels of longevity, so Taoist immortals also have different levels of taste. The early Taoist classic Taiping Jing divided immortals into six categories: first, gods, second, real people, third, immortals, fourth, Tao, fifth, saints and sixth, sages. He also said: "God is God, real people are landlords, immortals are the masters of storms, Taoist bishops are good or bad, saints manage the people, and sages help saints manage the people's records and help Liuhe." Jin's Inner Chapter of Bao Puzi. On Immortals, which is quoted from the Classic of Immortals, divides immortals into three categories: celestial immortals, earthly immortals and corpse immortals. He said: "The staff sergeant raises his shape and raises his emptiness, which is called the fairy; The sergeant traveled to a famous mountain and was called a fairy; The corporal dies first and dies, which is called the corpse to solve the fairy. " Liang Tao Hongjing's Bitmap of True Spirit divides immortals into seven levels: Jade Qing, Shangqing, Taiji, Taiqing, Jiugong, Dong Tian and Taiyin. The top secret of the Northern Zhou Dynasty divided the immortals into three categories: Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao. Among them, "taking ghosts as officials is the way" is the arrangement of immortals and ghosts after death, which shows that there are hopes and opportunities for immortality after death, thus indicating that there was a saying of "ghosts and immortals" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In Yin Tian Zi in Tang Dynasty, immortals are divided into five categories, namely, immortals in people, immortals in the earth, immortals in the sky, immortals in water and immortals who can change their magical powers. The "Sanqing" entry in Zhang Junfang's "Seven Signs of Taoist Priests at Three Points" in Song Dynasty divides immortals into nine categories, saying: "Nine immortals in Taiqing, nine immortals in Shangqing, nine saints in Qing Yu, three nine twenty-seven." The nine immortals are: Shangxian, Gaoxian, Taixian, Xuanxian, Tianxian, Xian Zhen, Xianxian, Lingxian and Zhixian. The names of truth and holiness are also above, above, too, mysterious, heaven, truth, god, spirit and even second. This is roughly the same as the classification method of Tezhenke. In a word, there are many kinds of immortals, and then the Secret Library of Immortals summarizes it, saying that "Buddhism is three times, and immortals are divided into five grades". The five grades of immortals are: fairy, fairy, fairy, ghost fairy. Basically laid the taste of the gods.
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