Secret biography of quanzhen Longmen Taoist

Longmen Sect is the fastest-growing and most influential mainstream Sect among the seven schools of Quanzhen Taoism in the world, spread by Qiu Chuji, one of the seven schools of northern Taoism. Qiu Chuji, whose name is Tong Mi, is from Binduli, Qixia County. Qiu Zu lost his parents when he was a child, and he tasted all the hardships in the world. When I was a child, I longed to become a "fairy". Living in Gongshan, north of the village, I live a life of "wearing pine flowers and eating pine nuts, drinking pine breeze in pine streams and drinking pine breeze in the bright moon". In the sixth year of Dading, in 1 166, at the age of 19, he realized the emptiness in the world, abandoned his family to learn Taoism and lived in seclusion in Kunyu Mountain. The next year, when he learned that Wang Zhongyang had founded Quanzhen Temple in Ninghai, Shandong Province, he went to his master to seek Taoism. Three years of immortal guarding the tomb, first to Panxi, Shaanxi for six years, and then to Longmen. Later, 74-year-old Qiu Chuji trekked 35,000 miles from Kunyu Mountain in Shandong Province to Genghis Khan in Central Asia, and achieved the historic pioneering work of "stopping with a word" and the legendary story of Han and Mongolia. He was honored as a "fairy" and worshipped as a "national teacher" in charge of Taoism in the world, which laid the foundation for the great development of Quanzhen Taoism.

Changyue Wang, a famous Taoist priest in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, put forward the idea of "forbearance and strictness", rectified religion, initiated "Dragon Gate Revival" and promoted the revival of Quanzhen Taoism. Quanzhen Daoism has made great achievements in expounding Inner alchemy. During the decline of Taoism in Ming and Qing Dynasties, only Quanzhen Dragon School was once "revived", and most other Taoist schools, such as Zhengyi School, declined. Quanzhen religion not only comprehensively and profoundly inherited China's traditional Taoist thought, but also rearranged the contents of Taoist culture such as rituals, commandments, symbols and pills. It laid the foundation for Taoism today. Ming and Qing dynasties spread all over the country, even in remote areas such as northeast, southwest and northwest. Become the master of almost all Taoist caves.

Quanzhen religion has always represented the authenticity of Taoism in the world. At present, the site of the Chinese Taoist Association is Quanzhen Longmen Temple-Beijing Baiyun Temple.