Among some schools of Taoism, Xu Xun, Zhang Daoling, Ge Xuan and Handcuffs are four heavenly teachers. People in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province and people surnamed Xu often regard it as a patron saint.
Renshou Palace in da yuan xiang, Taoyuan County is the oldest temple in Taiwan Province, with Xu Xun as the main god. According to legend, during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, Xu Wei, a native of Zhangpu, Fujian, came to Taiwan to welcome Emperor Gan Tiandi, and the villagers jointly set up a temple, which was the largest belief center of the public temple in da yuan xiang. Lunar calendar1October 25th is the installation anniversary of the temple fair every year. There are many descendants of Xu surname in da yuan xiang, and they are honored as "the bodhi old zu", and many believers in the whole town have corresponding names. Besides the "bodhi old zu", believers are often called "Shen Min" or "Shen Min".
Xu Xun (239-374), whose real name is Jing Zhi, was born in Nanchang, Zhang Yu, a Taoist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the founder of Jingmingdao School. Legend has it that there are Taoist classics such as Lingjianzi. According to Taoist records, shooting is not a profession. One day, a deer shot into the mountains, and its fetus fell to the ground. The doe licked its cub and died. Xu Xun suddenly realized that he had broken his crossbow and returned home. He began to live in the home of Jinshi in Xishan. It is said that Wu Meng, a native of Nanchang (or generally referred to as Jiangxi), got the magic formula of the warlock Ding Yi, worshipped the great cave king Wu Meng as his teacher, and spread the three nets.
He is gifted and intelligent, and has a wide understanding of classics, astronomy, geography, medicine and yin-yang theory, especially Taoism magic. At the age of twenty, I was promoted to filial piety, which I highly recommend. At the age of twenty-nine, Wu Meng, a gentleman of An Dadong (now Xiushui), learned the secret of Taoism. At the age of thirty-six, he traveled to famous scenic spots with the writer Guo Pu, and finally chose Xiaoyao Mountain in the western suburbs of Nanchang (now newly built Xishan Township) to live in seclusion. I just want to practice, not be an official. On weekdays, I educate the village with filial piety, loyalty and faith, and I am deeply respected by the villagers. It was not until he was forty-two years old in the first year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty (280) that he went to Sichuan as the magistrate of Jingyang County because it was difficult for the court to refuse.
After Xu Xun came to Jingyang, he eliminated greed, reduced punishment, advocated benevolence and filial piety, kept close to the sage and alienated the wicked, and implemented many measures benefiting the country and the people. One year, Jingyang was flooded, and there was no harvest in the low-lying land. Xu Xun sent a large number of farmers to farm in Guantian, and the workers paid taxes on their behalf, so that the victims were rescued. At that time, the plague was prevalent, and Xu Xun treated it with the prescription he had learned. The medicine cured the disease, and the people were grateful and filial to their parents. At that time, Jingyang sang a folk song: "People don't steal, officials don't bully, and husbands are sick." Sheng praised Johnson's achievements. People from neighboring counties came to join, and the number of households in Jingyang increased greatly. Xu Xun, who has lived in Jingyang for ten years, is affectionately called "Xu Jingyang" because of his clean residence and outstanding achievements.
In the first year of Taixi (290), in view of the chaos of Jinshi, Xu Xun returned to the East in anticipation of the failure of state affairs. At the time of departure, the sender will cover the wild; Some people built a life for him.
Xu Zhenjun beheaded the Dragon Palace, painted statues and sacrificed all the year round; Some people came all the way to the Western Hills to live in groups and keep Xu Xun company. They all changed their surnames to Xu and were called "Lala Hsu". After Xu Zhenjun returned to the east, the dragon in Li Peng Lake (now Poyang Lake) was injured and flooded for years. Xu Zu led his disciples around the Lake District. He not only managed water for Zhang Yu, but also went to Hunan, Hubei, Fujian and other places to eliminate waterlogging, and won wide respect from the people.
In the 4th year of Emperor Daxing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (32 1), Xu Xun lived in seclusion in the former site of Meixian Temple in the southern suburbs of Nanchang, and founded a Taoist school, named Taiji Temple, called "Pure Realm", and founded the Pure Taoist School. Its purpose is "sincerity, loyalty and filial piety". Legend has it that Xu Xun lived to be 136 years old. On the first day of August in the second year of Ningkang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (374), 42 members of his family flew to the sky together, and the world honored him as "Xu Xian". In recognition of his achievements, the Eastern Jin court renamed Jingyang County Deyang County. Later generations built Xu Xian Temple in Xishan where he lived, and Jingyang Temple in Tiezhu Palace in Nanchang, which was praised by all previous dynasties. Wang Anshi wrote about Xu Jingyang Temple in Song Dynasty.
Characters' aphorisms are ill-intentioned, and feng shui is useless;
Parents are unfilial and it is useless to serve God.
It's no use making friends if brothers are not in harmony;
It is useless to study badly;
It is useless to be arrogant and knowledgeable;
It is useless to be fooled by cleverness;
It's no use taking medicine at all costs;
Luck is unreasonable and welcome;
It's no use taking other people's money for nothing;
The statue of Xu Jingyang on the shore of Jinghu Lake in Deyang, Sichuan, is lascivious, lascivious and useless.
On second thought, we are always worried about this and that, making up the east and making up the west.
Take a step back and think that fertile land is vast, and you can only eat one liter of rice a day; ; There are thousands of buildings, sleeping eight feet a night.
A liter of eight feet, soon, what's the use?
If you care about yourself, will you understand when you die?
Caring for children and grandchildren, children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren.
With a family fortune of millions, Yin Gong is not stupid.
Accumulation with children and grandchildren may not be conservative,
Reincarnated into a beast, children and grandchildren can't replace it.
"Wheel Song" yue:
Animals are people, and people and animals are reincarnation from ancient times to the present.
I don't see fur or horns, so I advise you not to be cruel.
One day in a hundred years, don't work too hard.
Rich, poor and rich, rivers become rivers.
Conscience has its own conscience, and cunning needs to be honed.
How about ten years later?
In the first year of Daoyuankang in Xu Xun (29 1), the Eight Kings Rebellion broke out, and they abandoned their officials and returned to the east, spreading filial piety with Wu Meng in the region. It is said that there are hundreds of people in the order of Xishan, and the backbone of the order is 12. They are called Twelve True Gentlemen, namely, Wu Meng, Xishan Wanshou Palace, Shihe, Gan Zhan, Zeng Heng, Xu Lie, Shi Cen, Lan, Zhong and so on. Five of them are Xu Xun's family members or in-laws. His missionary activities spread all over Zhang Yu and its vicinity, and Xu Xun's missionary remains were also found in Pingjiang, Yuezhou (now Pingjiang, Hunan). There are many magical stories about Xu Xun using jiaozi to kill snakes and insects all over Zhang Yu. According to Taoist legend's records, on August 15th, the second year of Kangning in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (374), Xu Xun "started with the whole family, and the chickens and dogs left". Western Mountain Taoist built a sightseeing screen in Xu Xun's former residence as a place of worship. According to "The Biography of the Second True King of Filial Piety", whenever Xu Xun climbs the mountain and overlooks it, "the people of the four townships gather in the temple and set up Huang Dazhai. Invite Taoist priests to the altar for three days and three nights, and go to Xuanyuan to make a ceremony and burn incense, and sincerely invite them to live and die, so that they can rest in peace. " In the Song Dynasty, Xu Xun was highly respected by the royal family in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the third year (10 10), Dazhong Xiangfu upgraded the curtain Xishan scene to Yulong Palace. In the second year of Zheng He's reign (112), Cheng Hao was sent to ask a Taoist priest to build a Dojo in Yulong Palace for seven days and seven nights, and Xu Xun was named "the King of Magic and Wonderful Aid". Later, imitating the regulations of Chongfu Palace in Xijing, Yulong Wanshou Palace was rebuilt in Xishan, Hongzhou. This magnificent building is a famous Taoist temple in the Song Dynasty. In the southern song dynasty, "the true monarch was buried all over northern Hunan, and the political struggle was invincible." (2) Xu Xun belief was very common among Han people in Song Dynasty. "Every summer, all the nobles and scholars, each in Koge, play drums and flags and go to the bedroom to welcome the town army and elephant. He is lucky in his hometown and prays because he wants to eliminate drought locusts." (3) According to legend, every Mid-Autumn Festival "Clear Moon", worshippers go to the Yulong Wanshou Palace in Xishan to help the old and bring the young, ride on their shoulders and rub shoulders on the road. Therefore, He in the Southern Song Dynasty and He in the early Yuan Dynasty were both gods, and they were both regarded as the founders of Jingmingdao.
Xu Xun's deeds are not recorded in the official history, and there are many different stories in Taoist books. As for Tao, there are at least three statements:
Wu Meng's "Seven Stories of Clouds" 166 "Biography" said: "(Wu) When he went to the immortal, he said to his son,' After I went, there was a man named Xu Mingxun in the southeast who wanted to hang you. You should pay attention to it and give it a real gift. "At that time, Xun Guo came to Hangzhou, and his son passed on the true character with his father's orders. It really felt stronger and stronger."
According to the Biography of Twelve True Kings, Lan Gong was a native of Qufu County, Yanzhou, the hometown of Confucius. Because of his "specialization in filial piety", the real fighter was specially awarded "filial piety" and "the secret biography of the Supreme Road", which predicted that there was a true fairy Xu Xun in the Jin Dynasty. Therefore, this "filial piety" should be passed down as "the Lord of all immortals". Sure enough, after the death of Lan Gong, Xu Xun got the Secret Law of Filial Piety, the Collection of Books and the bronze iron coupons.
The dead mother Martin and the dead mother Xu Xun. "Yucheng Ji Xian Lu" said that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law "is a secret cultivation method, which has accumulated for decades ... Martin and Xu Xun came to the south from Levin, and they wanted to learn from their mother. Please pass on what they have learned and be awarded by the alliance. The law of filial piety is the river table. " About Xu Xun's native place, "Yun Qi VII? Said he was from Nanchang. The Biography of Twelve True Kings records Xu Xun's native place as Runan, and the Biography of Two True Kings with Xiao Wu Xu calls Xu Xun "Wang Benlai". The Xu family in Runan was a celebrity who presided over the "New Year's Day Review" in Han Dynasty, and the Xu family in Levin was a celebrity in Wei, Jin and Northern Dynasties. This may be to deify Xu Xun and intentionally cling to it.
Ancient temples in Jiangxi Province generally worship Xu Xun.