Where is Maoshan? Why maoshan taoist?

Maoshan is located in jurong city, Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province. Maoshan Mountain is a famous Taoist mountain in China, the birthplace of Taoist Shangqing School, and is called "Shangqing Zongtan" by Taoism. 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".

Maoshan Taoism is the birthplace of Puritanism School of Taoism in China, the cradle of Maoshan School of Taoism in China, and the resident of temples built by Sanmao Zhenjun.

Maoshan in history was the back mountain of Jinling, the capital city at that time, especially during the Liu and Song Dynasties. The imperial court withdrew troops to guard against the enemy, the emperor sat on the top of the mountain, the bureaucrats retired, the literati played the piano and played the ink, and the good men believed in women's pilgrimage, all gathered here.

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Maoshan is the founder of Maoshan Sect of Taoism and the place where Sanmao Zhenjun practiced Taoism.

In Jiangsu Province, there are two Maoshan Mountains. Jurong city, south of the Yangtze River, is called Nanmaoshan; Another xinghua city on the north bank of the Yangtze River is called Beimaoshan. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Ren, a representative of Yangzhou School, who is famous for his textual research, said in the Inscription of Crossing Maoshan that "Beimaoshan is the earliest place where Sanmao Zhenjun practiced Taoism". ?

That is to say, in the period of Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty, Mao Ying, Mao Gu and Mao Zhong first practiced Buddhism in Beimaoshan to save the people, so they were called Maoshan. Later, he was invited to Qushan in the south of the Yangtze River, which made the difference between Maoshan in the north and Maoshan in the south.

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