Who is the Taiyin in Taoism?

Lunar Xing Jun is the moon god, commonly known as "lunar". The ancient people's worship of the moon was first recorded in the Yao Dian of Historical Records, which recorded that the sun, the moon and the stars were the heavenly sects, while Dai and Hehai were the earthly sects. Tianzong and Dizong were combined into six cases. Wang Yi's "Nine Chapters of Chu Ci" notes: "Six gods are the gods of six schools." It can be seen that before this, the moon has long been worshipped as a god. In fact, when the ancients sacrificed to the moon, they often assisted the sun. Worship the sun in the east and the moon in the west, bid farewell to the inside and outside, and end its position. It can be seen that the phenomenon of "offering sacrifices to the sun as a supplement and offering sacrifices to the moon as a supplement" in ancient times.

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Tracing back to the source, it is related to the worship of the moon in ancient China. Moon star is also called Moon Queen, Moon Star Master, Moon Aunt and Moon Bodhisattva. The worship of the moon and the star king has a long history in China, and it is also a common phenomenon all over the world, which stems from the worship of celestial bodies in primitive beliefs. In the moon star Wang Li

In the dark, the moon brings light to people; The dim moonlight will make people have a lot of reverie, which leads to many beautiful and moving stories, and the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon is one of them. Legend has it that Chang 'e was the wife of Hou Yi, who shot for nine days and offended the Emperor of Heaven and demoted them to earth. Later, Hou Yi got the elixir of life from the Queen Mother of the West. After eating food secretly, Chang 'e went to heaven, lived in the Moon Palace and became Chang 'e. This incident is recorded in Shan Hai Jing, Search for Ji Shen and other ancient books. Since then, the king of the moon and stars has been more widely provided to the people. In ancient China, when men and women fell in love, they made love under the moon and prayed to the king of the moon and stars. Some separated lovers also pray for the reunion of the moon and stars. Guan Hanqing, a great dramatist in Yuan Dynasty, wrote Moon Pavilion. Cui Yingying in The West Chamber also confided devoutly to Xing Jun, hoping to meet the right person. In the eighteenth episode of Continued Jin Ping Mei written by Ding, a married couple, Zheng Yuqing, tasted the forbidden fruit privately, pushed open the window, both fell to their knees and said to the moon, "If one person is ungrateful, he will die under a thousand knives." Interestingly, some unrequited men and women also want to ask Xing Jun of Taiyin to judge or express their feelings.