Confucius once led some disciples around the world for thirteen years, giving lectures everywhere and spreading Confucianism widely among countries. In his later years, Confucius revised the Six Classics of Poetry, Calligraphy, Rite, Music, Book of Changes and Spring and Autumn, and his thoughts had a far-reaching impact on China and even the world.
Among many disciples of Confucius, there are many famous ones, such as Yan Hui, Lutz, Zi Gong and Zi Qian. They also made their own efforts to spread Confucianism widely.
Then, do you know who is the disciple of Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu is the founder of Taoist school, also known as Confucius.
Li Er, Lao Zi, was a librarian of the National Library in Zhou Wang in his early years. Later, when I saw that the Zhou Dynasty was getting darker and darker, I left my hometown and prepared to travel to Hanguguan in the west.
Yin, an official guarding Hanguguan at that time, was an expert in astronomical observation when he was young, and he loved reading ancient books and had a deep cultivation.
One day, Yin looked up at the starry sky on the balcony, and suddenly saw the purple gas coming from the east, and its three dragon-shaped Wan Li rolled in from east to west, and said to himself, "The purple gas came from the east, and the three Wan Li, the sage went west, must pass through here. Qingniu slowly carries the old man and hides. "
Yin has heard Lao Tzu's name for a long time, wondering if this is Lao Tzu's future. So he sent people to clean the road for forty miles and burn incense in the street to welcome the holy.
When Yin saw an old man with white hair, knee-length and a red face, he rode leisurely on a green cow.
Yin looked up at the sky and sighed, "I'm so lucky. See the saint! " Three steps at a time, two steps at a time, running forward, kneeling in front of the green cow and saying, "Guanyin, please meet the sage."
After that, Yin took Lao Zi to the official residence, invited Lao Zi to sit on it, burned incense and made a disciple's ceremony. When he was asked that Laozi wanted to travel to Kansai, he felt it was a pity and wanted to keep Laozi. Moreover, Yin also said to Lao Zi, "If you want to go through customs, you should go through customs, but you should keep your books."
Therefore, Lao Tzu readily promised to write two articles, * * * 5,000 words, with the rise and fall of the dynasty and the safety of the people as a mirror. The first article is based on "Tao can be Tao, but extraordinary; This name can be named, but it is very famous, so it is called Tao Jing. The next chapter takes "virtue is not virtue, but virtue;" Being virtuous without losing virtue is not a virtue. Therefore, it is called "moral classic" and collectively called "moral classic".
After I left the Tao Te Ching, I left Hangu Pass in the west. After Yin got the Tao Te Ching, he was so hungry that he meditated all day. In order to understand its mystery and explain its Hyunri, Yin wrote nine bamboo slips Guanyin Zi, which became one of the Taoist classics.
According to Yang Xiong's Biography of the King of Shu, Lao Zi and Yin said, "Meet me at Qingyang Temple in Chengdu in a thousand days." . After three years, Lao Tzu came here, and Yin came as promised. Laozi praised his achievements and made him a supreme reality, and awarded him a jade book with a bronze inscription. He is one of the four phases of Tianfu, ranking above the twenty-four heavenly kings and commanding eighty thousand immortals.
In this way, Yin, as a disciple of Laozi, became the earliest propagator of Taoism and one of the representatives of Taoism. In The World of Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi juxtaposed Yin and Lao Zi, calling them "the great reality of ancient times". In the third year of Yuan Shundi to the Yuan Dynasty (1337), the Yuan Dynasty named Yin as the true monarch who "started from the emperor's father and was rich in literature".
For more than 2,000 years, Taoism has exerted a great and far-reaching influence in China and even the world, and Yin has made the greatest contribution except Lao Zi.