The Maoshan sect has one hundred and eight sects, with thirty-six in the upper Maoshan and seventy-two in the lower Maoshan, as well as the Twenty-four Qingtang and the Three Ghost sects.
Maoshan Sect is another name for Shangqing Sect. Because it is located in Maoshan, it is called Maoshan Sect. It is also divided into North and South Maoshan Taoism. The North Maoshan is the founding place, and the Southern Maoshan is today's Luofu Mountain in Guangdong. The founder is Ge Hong. The Shangqing Sect was actually founded by Tao Hongjing Maoshan of the Southern Liang Dynasty, hence its name.
In addition to Tao Hongjing, the representative figure of this sect, there were immortals Zhan Shanggong, Guo Sichao, etc. in the pre-Qin Dynasty, high Taoists Li Ming, Zuo Ci, etc. in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and founders Wei Huacun, Yang Xi, Xu, etc. in the two Jin Dynasties. Mi, Xu Hui and the famous southern Taoist master Ge Hong, etc. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were masters of rituals such as Lu Xiujing and Sun Youyue. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were Wang Yuanzhi, Pan Shizheng, Sima Chengzhen, etc. High Taoists emerged in large numbers and became the authentic and mainstream Taoism.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, together with Longhu Mountain and Hezao Mountain, it was one of the three major Taoist talismans sects, and was known as the Three Mountains Talismans.
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Legendary figures
There were many Taoist legends in the Tang Dynasty, the famous ones include Zhang Guo, Ye Fashan, Luo Gongyuan and Lu Dongbin. Zhang Guo, who lives in the middle mountain, may have the secret to longevity and knows Qigong. He lived during the periods of Wu Zetian and Tang Xuanzong.
Ye Fashan, a native of Kuocang, Kuozhou (now Xianju, Zhejiang), was proficient in Taoism. The four generations of Emperor Gaozong, Zhongzong, Ruizong and Xuanzong lived for 107 years. The calligrapher Li Yong's "Mr. Youdao Ye Guozhong's Shinto Stele" is said to have been written by Ye Fashan in his dream, also known as "The Soul-Chasing Stele". Luo Gongyuan, a figure in the Tang Xuanzong period.
Lu Dongbin (798-?), named Yan, also known as Chunyangzi, was born in Jingzhao (now Xi'an) of Tang Dynasty. At the age of 64, he met Zhongli Quan and attained enlightenment. There are many legends, such as Beheading Jiao in the Jianghuai River, Playing with Cranes in Yueyang, Drunk in the Inn, Huangliang Yimeng, etc.
In the 5th year of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty (44 BC), the three brothers of the Mao family in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, Mao Ying and his younger brothers Gu and Zhong, went to Maoshan to collect medicines and refine elixirs to save the world and save the people. They are known as the founders of Maoshan Taoism. , the three brothers of the Mao family obtained Taoism in Maoshan and founded the Maoshan Taoist sect. Later, Tao Hongjing founded the Maoshan sect of Taoism. "Huangting Jing" is an important classic of the Maoshan sect and the homework classic of the Quanzhen Taoist sect in later generations.
Tao Hongjing and his disciples have been operating in Maoshan for decades, making Maoshan the center of the Shangqing Sect, so later generations also called the Shangqing Sect "Maoshan Sect". The book "Zhen Gao" written by him records the history of teaching Taoism in Maoshan, with more than a hundred people.
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