2. Yin Tian Zi in the Tang Dynasty divided immortals into five categories, saying: people are called immortals, the earth is called immortals, the sky is called immortals, the water is called daffodils, and those who can change their magical powers are called immortals.
3. In the "Sanqing" entry of Three Caves and Seven Wonders of Taoism written by Zhang Junfang in Song Dynasty, immortals are divided into nine immortals: Shangxian, Gaoxian, Taixian, Xuanxian, Tianxian, Xian Zhen, Xianren, Lingxian and Zhixian.
Jin's Inner Chapter of Bao Puzi. On Immortals, which is quoted from the Classic of Immortals, divides immortals into three categories: celestial immortals, earthly immortals and corpse immortals. He said: "The staff sergeant raises his shape and raises his emptiness, which is called the fairy; The sergeant traveled to a famous mountain and was called a fairy; The corporal dies first and dies, which is called the corpse to solve the fairy. "
Liang Tao Hongjing's Bitmap of True Spirit divides immortals into seven levels: Jade Qing, Shangqing, Taiji, Taiqing, Jiugong, Dong Tian and Taiyin.
The top secret of the Northern Zhou Dynasty divided the immortals into three categories: Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao, Dao. Among them, "taking ghosts as officials is the way" is the arrangement of immortals and ghosts after death, which shows that there are hopes and opportunities for immortality after death, thus indicating that there was a saying of "ghosts and immortals" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
In a word, there are many kinds of immortals, and then the Secret Library of Immortals summarizes it, saying that "Buddhism is three times, and immortals are divided into five grades". The five grades of immortals are: fairy, fairy, fairy, ghost fairy. Basically laid the taste of the gods.