On Religion in Huainan, Sichuan

The word "Nan" in Nanfa, a seemingly simple adjective, has multiple meanings here:

The first one can be understood as the Maoshan guide method, that is, the Xiamaoshan guide method.

The second one can be understood as the south of Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue.

Thirdly, we can understand it as a pool on the river in Shaozhou (now Shaoyang, Hunan). Because this pool is in the south of the city, it is also called "South".

Fourth, south of Zhang Tianshi base camp.

Fifth, it refers to the south in general.

Mao Shan Zhinan, the southern method is the Xiamaoshan method. This school of thought has been discussed in my humble work "Talking about Maoshan", so I won't talk about it here. Mount Hengshan in Nanyue is the land of ancient Zhurongfeng. Nine years later, Wang Zhen, the founder of Shen Xiao School, practiced in secret here, and my ancestor Xu Yuan learned to enter the Nangong. Its Shan Zhinan, where the spirit is green, is called "Southern Law" because many different laws spread in mountainous areas. The Nanfa here is characterized by the way of void change. If it is big, it will fall into the ground, and the soil will turn into a mountain and spit in the river. Small ones can use a chicken to put out the fire and change one copper coin into ten copper coins.

The Divine Book copied from Compendium of Materia Medica is the product here. The most important thing in this law is nothing more than steps. Due to historical reasons, the methods of this school are mostly hidden in the people, and few people can do it.

Another so-called southern method, according to the records of Guangsheng, Shi Tian and Du Guangting, refers to the method obtained from a stone box book at the bottom of Longtan in Shaoyang, Hunan Province today. There are three letters in this book, which were collected by Shi Tian of Shen Yuan in Tang Dynasty. Shen is good at cursing in three or five ways. Therefore, this book is full of words and curses.

At present, there is a school in Hunan called "Congenital School". Good magic, good prohibition, good practice and perfection, attracting cloudy days. Shen, one of the founders of this school, is regarded as "the founder of water lotus and a hermit in autumn. Jin Dingmiao turned real misfortune into disaster, but it was a disaster of God." The development of congenital school also influenced the development of Meishan school in Hunan, and gradually appeared the content of inviting Shen Gong and calling Yin Shuai in some legal subjects of Meishan school. The content of treating serious diseases, evil diseases and catching evil spirits is quite popular. Of course, as a sect that is good at cursing and forbidding, there are still many reserved "procedures", such as taking fire from water, borrowing springs and carrying. As a magic weapon to punish evil, the "mixed cultivation" circulated in this method can still be compared with Luban's method. As long as you are a Taoist friend who has studied authentic runes, there is no one who does not know General Zhao Hou. Zhao Hou's surname is Rui. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in order to avoid the war, Shu people studied in Qingcheng Mountain with their younger brother Zhao Mian, and their spells were profound and their ways were obvious. When Qing Cheng Ji recorded Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty, he was invited by the imperial court to serve as the secretariat of Sichuan history, which is equivalent to the current local discipline inspection officials. Not long after he took office, he provoked evil jiaozi, flooded crops and farmhouses. Zhao Yu immediately led the soldiers and civilians in Quanzhou to fight against Nie Jiao, and personally took the sword into the water. Amid the cheers of the soldiers and civilians along the coast, they slashed the dumplings with swords to quell the flood. The book records that "the citizens of the state wear it and regard it as a god." Later, because of the peasant uprising in the late Sui Dynasty, he lived in seclusion. In order to commemorate him, the local people set up a temple at the pass, and because of its ranking as the second child, it was called Zhao Erlang in the world, and later generations enshrined it as "Erlang God". Song Huizong was named the "True King of Miao Dao in Qingyuan" and later the "King of Chuan".

Speaking of which, there must be many friends inside and outside the road who want to question me? Isn't "Master Chuan" Li Bing and his son? Isn't Erlang God Yang Jian? There is indeed a saying in history that the "master of Sichuan" is Li Bing's father and son, and the "Erlang God" is Emperor Wen of Sui, an anti-Liao hero. But the former is because both temples are devoted to irrigation and are confused by the merits and demerits of water control; The latter is attached to the novelist, which is essentially different from the inheritance of Taoism and Buddhism from generation to generation. After Zhao Hou was promoted to heaven, he was named "General Zhao Hou, master of initiation in Huainan" by the Jade Emperor. However, unfortunate things are always accompanied by lucky things. Because of the first fairy lesson, the relationship between god and ghost was not handled well. Coupled with the character of Zhao Hou, such as evil as hatred. Killed many ghosts. Therefore, it was punished to a certain extent. In order to atone for his sins, Zhao Hou was demoted as an "examination" messenger for three thousand years.

It is also with this opportunity that Zhao Hou's Huainan * * is spread all over the world. Huainan Law is a complete set of Taoism, and the existing Huainan Law is generally called "Yuan Di". In fact, the original name of "Huangyuan * *" was "* *", but it was changed to Yuan because it avoided the word "Xuan" in Kangxi's Michelle Ye. Nangong School: It is also called "Nanfa", but it is easily confused with Nanfa in Maoshan and other places, so it should be distinguished. According to Yi Xinying's list of Taoist schools, Nangong School is also called Turing, Zuo Fu, Zhen Xuan and plough. Its teachings include Yin and Yang, Five Elements, Six Benevolence, Qimen, Charm, Secret Mantra, Order, Jade divination, Forgery and Interpretation of Scripture. In fact, it is Fuxi Taoism, which is good at magic, and is the ancestor of Xuan Nv and Jiutian, a ghost town. There is also a cloud: Nangong Sect, looking at the gas and knowing the prescription, avoiding the secret method of the world, seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, eliminating evil with firm but gentle, or degenerating into a virtual form. If you let go, you will be embarrassed, fascinated, confused, and will not be allowed to exist in the world. Sword Fairy School is also a branch of Nangong School.