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Maoshan Mountain, located at the junction of jurong city and Jintan, Jiangsu Province, is beautiful, quiet and pleasant, winding and undulating. It is known as the eighth cave among the top ten caves in Taoism, the thirty-second cave among the thirty-six caves and the first blessed land among the seventy-two blessed lands in the world. These titles not only give her layers of mysterious aura, but also attract many strangers for her. Because a Taoist school originated here, the Taoist school that cultivated this place and carried it forward is called "Maoshan School", and people call its disciples "maoshan taoist".

The origin of maoshan taoist (Maoshanzong);

Yang, the founder of Shangqing School, and Ge Hong, the alchemist of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, practiced here successively. In the tenth year of Southern Qi Yongming, Tao Hongjing, who had been an idle official in the imperial court for fourteen years, suddenly resigned. With the approval of Emperor Wu of Qi, he went to Maoshan to live in seclusion. He lives in Huayang Cave, Jintan and calls himself "Mr. Huayang Seclusion".

The predecessor of Maoshan Sect is the Shangqing Sect of Taoism. Tao Hongjing inherited the Shangqing Classics handed down by Yang and others, and carefully compiled more than 200 volumes of Taoist classics, such as the True Patent, the Secret Method of Ascending Truth, and the Map of True Spirit, which specifically described the early teachings and magical powers of the Shangqing School, and made the Shangqing Classics develop. Later, after decades of painstaking efforts by him and his disciples, the teaching theory and organization gradually improved. Later generations took Maoshan as their ancestral home and gradually developed into the later "Maoshan School", which is also another name of Shangqing School with Maoshan as its development center.

Since Tao Hongjing, Maoshan Sect has produced a large number of talented people, and its influence is expanding day by day. Maoshan School reached its peak in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and Wang, Pan, Sima and Li Hanguang of Maoshan School in the Tang Dynasty were all highly respected by the imperial clan in the Tang Dynasty.

Maoshanzong mainly inherited the true sutra of Dadong in Qing Dynasty, and its practice methods were mainly meditation and chanting. And an alchemist. Master Tao Hongjing himself is an alchemist, and Liang Wudi once took his elixir. From Song Dynasty to Ming Dynasty, Maoshan School merged with other schools and ceased to exist.

Today, the so-called Maoshan method, which occasionally appears, is more common in folk witchcraft with heretics. Maoshan taoist is famous for catching ghosts and subduing demons, but the essence of Maoshan's religious meaning has nothing to do with it. One of the reasons for this reputation is that later disciples fooled the villagers in order to cheat food and drink, and the other is that those ignorant believers exaggerated the result of spreading false information.

The theory of ghosts and gods has a long history in the world, and there are many examples in modern times to show that it is not nonsense. There are two magic methods in Taoism: Buddhism and magic. Among them, symbols, curses, mental charts, demon reduction, soul catching and so on. In Taoism, it refers to the method of reducing demons and catching ghosts to save the lives of the world. But in the final analysis, it is to achieve the purpose of practice, and it is by no means its responsibility to subdue demons and catch ghosts.

The inheritance of Taoism was strongly rejected by the rulers in this period because the Qing emperor preferred Buddhism tantra. Especially since the Qing dynasty, the rise of modern science has made the development of Taoism go to a desperate situation. Most of the Taoist children have also fallen, so that there are fewer and fewer real Taoist priests. On the contrary, those fake Taoist priests are becoming more and more rampant. As a result, the master didn't make progress, and all he did was cheat money, making the good Maoshanzong unrecognizable and malodorous.