Is there a maoshan taoist in Maoshan?

Maoshan taoist refers to a Taoist who belongs to the Maoshan School. Maoshan is located in Xuebu Town, Jintan City, jurong city, Jiangsu Province, covering an area of more than 50 square kilometers. 1985 is listed as one of the eight scenic spots in Jiangsu province. Maoshan Mountain, 372.5 meters above sea level, has beautiful scenery and lush trees, including Jiu Feng, 26 caves and 19 springs. Among the mountains with overlapping peaks, there are caves such as Huayang Cave and Qinglong Cave, and various artificial reservoirs are scattered all over the place, making Maoshan more beautiful, which can be described as "seeing mountains in spring, summer, autumn and winter". Maoshan Mountain is also a famous Taoist shrine. According to legend, in the fifth year of the Han Dynasty (44 BC), three brothers from Maoshan, Xianyang, Shaanxi, came to Maoshan to collect medicine and make an alchemy, saving the world and saving people, and were called the founders of Maoshan Taoism. Tao Hongjing, a hermit in Qi and Liang Dynasties, founded Maoshan Taoism. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, Maoshan Mountain has been listed as the "first blessed land and the eighth cave" of Taoism, attracting many people. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Marshal Chen Yi and other revolutionary ancestors launched guerrilla warfare with the enemy here, making it one of the six famous anti-Japanese base areas in China. Maoshan Mountain has the characteristics of "beautiful mountains, holy roads and strange caves". The main scenic spots in this area include Maoshan Taoist Temple, Wanfu Palace, Yingong Palace, Gan Yuan Temple, Huayang Cave, Jinniu Cave and the New Fourth Army Memorial Hall.

Maoshan Mountain is one of the main mountain ranges in Jiangsu Province. Maoshan Mountain is named Qushan, also known as Jinling Difei Mountain, because of its winding mountain and the shape of "Ji". Taoism says that "Qu Qu Jinling is a blessed place to cultivate truth and a spiritual city to become a god". During the Western Han Dynasty, Mao Shi, three brothers, Mao Gu and Mao Zhong from Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, came to Qushan to help the world. Later, in order to commemorate Mao's achievements, Qushan was changed to Sanmaoshan, referred to as Maoshan for short. The main peak, Damao Peak, is 372.5 meters above sea level, and the scenic area is about 7 1.2 square kilometers. The traffic inside and outside the scenic spot is convenient, extending in all directions, with Maoshan Town as the center, about 60 kilometers away from Nanjing, Zhenjiang and Changzhou, about 300 kilometers away from Shanghai in the east and Hangzhou in the south, and only 38 kilometers away from Nanjing Lukou International Airport.

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.