Fortune teller Zhong Kui.

Why isn't the enchanted general Zhong Kui among the four Taoist priests? Today we will talk about this topic.

Zhong Kui, the god of all things.

The master's hometown is in the countryside. In the 1990s, there were almost no recreational activities in rural areas. At that time, people still liked going to the theatre. Therefore, there are always troupes coming to our village to sing big plays every year, and singing big plays is very particular. Before singing, you should have a big stage. After setting up the stage, before the first act begins, you should worship God. At this time, you will put a champion crown on the incense table in the center of the stage. If you didn't know then, ask your adult. Adults say it's to worship Zhong Kui, and it's called "visiting Zhong Kui and winning the first prize". Then many adults take their children to worship, and the troupe leaders will give each child a red forehead. (Haha, click 10 yuan)

Why do you worship Zhong Kui? Isn't he specialized in catching ghosts? Come on, let's talk.

Zhong Kui, whose word is due south, is from Zhong Nanshan. He was born with a tough face and sideburns, but his face was particularly black and his beard was full. It's not pretty or ugly anyway. However, Zhong Kui is a well-known genius with extensive reading, profound knowledge and brilliant talent. More importantly, he is honest, honest and upright. There is a saying that the monster between heaven and earth is most afraid of the integrity between heaven and earth, which also explains why Shi Tian and Zhong Kui can become the god of enchantment. )

(Shi Tian Zhong Kui)

However, since ancient times, most people judge people by their appearances, even the emperor is no exception. The first place in Zhong Kui High School and the Tang Dynasty was not the champion, but the scholar. Although Zhong Kui was a scholar in high school, the emperor disliked his ugliness and refused to accept him. As a result, Zhong Kui was killed in the hall. After Zhong Kui's death, he was just a ghost judge in the underworld, and he was not famous at that time. According to "The History of Tang Yi", "Zhong Kui, a scholar in Zhong Nanshan, also died because of his martial arts. I am very grateful for being taught to give a green robe for burial, and I swear to eliminate evil things with my king. " Until a bizarre thing happened in the upper position of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Zhong Kui rose in the celestial world from now on!

What is this? It turned out that this Tang Xuanzong liked to go out to play, but he was hit by evil. After returning to the palace, the doctors were seriously ill and there was nothing they could do. Until one night, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty dreamed that a child in red had stolen his treasure and angrily reprimanded the child, but he could do nothing about it. At this moment, GREAT GHOST, wearing a broken hat, suddenly appeared, grabbed the kid and ate it. When Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty asked him who he was, GREAT GHOST replied: I used to be a scholar in Central South, and my name was Zhong Kui. Because the first emperor disliked my ugly appearance and refused to accept me, he killed me on the steps of the palace in a rage. After my death, I was named a full-time ghost hunter. Say that finish, Zhong Kui was gone, but after waking up, Tang Xuanzong was fine. The next day, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty told the ministers about it, and ordered the painter Wu Daozi to draw a portrait of Zhong Kui and put it in his bedroom, and named Zhong Kui a saint who prayed for the town house.

(Zhong Kui and Bao Zheng reincarnated by Wen Quxing)

You know, in heaven, the jade emperor is granted to immortals, and only the emperor has the right to grant immortals on earth. For example, King Jinghe in The Journey to the West begged Emperor Taizong and Li Shimin not to let Wei Zhi kill himself. In addition, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was originally a Taoist priest, so Zhong Kui's value in the celestial world has grown by leaps and bounds since then.

The emperor liked it, so the following people scrambled to imitate it, so the people put Zhong Kui on the door to ward off evil spirits and avoid ghosts, so Zhong Kui became the keeper after Qin and Weichi Gong. (The earliest door gods were Shen Tu and Lei Yu)

Zhong Kui lived up to Shu Ren's expectations, blessed the town, reduced demons, cut the five poisons, blessed wealth, endowed wisdom with learning, and was responsive, becoming the only omnipotent god among the Taoist gods of the Han nationality.

Then why can't such an all-powerful god be among the four heavenly teachers of Taoism? This will be compared with the four heavenly teachers of Taoism.

(such as Zhang Tianshi)

Zhang Daoling, founder of Zhengyi.

Last year, the pavilion owner went to Qingcheng Mountain, the ancestral temple of Taoism, and saw Zhang Tianshi's introduction on the mountain. Zhang Tianshi, formerly known as Zhang Ling, had a talent different from ordinary people since he was a child. When he came of age, he looked strange. He is 9 feet 2 inches long, with wide eyebrows, green eyes and long eyes. Books that know the four books and five classics, astronomical geography and the latitude of Heluo map. I used to be an official, but when I saw that the officialdom was dark and the people were suffering, I resigned and retired, and I devoted myself to Taoism, so I added the word Taoism to my name.

(Owner 15 Shooting in Qingcheng Mountain, Sichuan: Introduction to Founding Education in Zhang Tianshi)

(Owner 15 Shooting in Qingcheng Mountain, Sichuan: Introduction to Founding Education in Zhang Tianshi)

Later, he studied Taoism and practiced in heming (today's Qingcheng Mountain area), and founded Justice Wei Meng Taoism (Wudoumi Taoism), which is now the Taoist justice drive. At that time, people in Bashu area were poisoned by witchcraft, and wizards gathered to collect money and do evil. Forcing people to believe that Zhang Tianshi, the ghost king, could not bear to torture people. On the one hand, he saves lives, on the other hand, he is diligent in practice. Legend has it that his heart of learning Taoism touched the old gentleman in Taishang, who came to Shu to teach the Taiji Classic of Taiping Cave and the Twenty-four Laws of Zhengyi Wei Meng. ",35 years work decree, male and female evil sword and other scriptures multiplier, worship for Shi Tian, and instructed Shi Tian to spread the alliance, prestige, save the people. So in July of the second year of Han 'an, Zhang Tianshi climbed Mount Qingcheng, where he met eight ghosts, struggled with many ghosts, subdued heresy and punished evil and falsehood. Shi Tian Tao and Xuan Tong, demons can't be enemies, each surrenders and is willing to convert to the right path. Therefore, the five-party, stereotyped writing and six-day ghosts and gods swore in front of the altar of the Yellow Emperor in Qingcheng Mountain. People were dying and ghosts were in the shadows. So the ghost king was imprisoned in the capital of Yin Bei for six days, and the eight ghosts were exiled to the border areas of the western regions. Since then, the demons have surrendered and the people are happy. Qingcheng Mountain still has the remains of the platform for cursing ghosts, the stone for lowering demons, and the pen-throwing trough. You can go and see it sometime. )

(15 pen throwing slot for main shooting of Qingcheng Mountain Cabinet)

(Introduction to the attractions of the pen-throwing trough)

(Yang Pingzhi Du Feng)

The people of Sichuan are very moved by Zhang Tianshi's deeds of saving all beings, and are willing to listen to Shi Tian's teachings. Therefore, Shi Tian established twenty-four times to recruit disciples, educate the people, and let Zheng Zheng carry forward together. After the Emperor of Heaven gave the jade book, he was named Zhengyi after a real person. He was the ancestor Shi Tian. Shou Yuan, a 65,438+023-year-old man, gained fame during the day.

(Like Master Ge Shi Tian)

Tai Chi Fairy Weng Ge Shi Tian

Ge Shitian, named Ge Xuan, is Ge Hongzhi's grandfather. Ge Hong, as we all know, was a Taoist theorist, medical scientist and alchemist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He called himself Bao Puzi and wrote Bao Puzi. Since Sun is so powerful, can Ge Xuan not be so powerful?

According to the record of Bao Puzi written by Ge Sun, there was a man named Ge in the Three Kingdoms period. Zuo Ci, a Taoist priest, studied Taoism. Therefore, Taoism sometimes calls him "Tai Chi Zuo Gong Xian". According to legend, he was a monk in Gezaoshan, Jiangxi, where he often took the bait and was good at magic. Like Zhang Tianshi, he is diligent in monasticism, saving lives, giving alms, and reducing demons. Finally, I was moved by the old gentleman, who came to the world again and taught him thirty-six volumes of the true scriptures, and taught him to refine them into nine elixirs. Ge went deep into the mountains to make an alchemy for decades, and finally made a nine-turn elixir soaring, creating the Lingbao School, the founder of the Taoist Lingbao School, and leaving the letters of the Lingbao Classic to future generations to make an alchemy and cultivate immortality.

(Like Xu)

Xu Jingming's founder

Originally named Xu, he was a Taoist master in Jin Dynasty. Because he was a local father and mother before becoming an immortal, later generations also called him Xu Jingyang. According to legend, he is proficient in Confucian classics, astronomy, geography, medicine, yin and yang, and is a dutiful son. At the age of 20, he was promoted to filial piety and was ordered to be kind to the people. Nine years later, I studied Taoism with Wu Meng, the monarch of Dadong Road.

160 Xu Xun biography of the Taoist classic "Seven Chapters on the Cloud" records: "When I was promoted to immortality, I said to my son,' After I left, there was a man named Xu Mingxun in the southeast who wanted to visit you. You should pay attention to it and give it a real gift. At that time, Xun Guo came to Hangzhou, and his son passed on the true charm with his father's orders. It really felt stronger and stronger. "Dadong Jun passed the secret law to Xu after he ascended to heaven. After Xu lived in seclusion in the mountains, he founded the Jingmingdao School. It is rumored that he has done many things for the benefit of the people, the most classic of which is to slay the little dragon in Panyang Lake and control the flood with the people. I have been doing good all my life and lived 1, at the age of 36. Finally, my merits became immortal. Praised by the imperial courts of past dynasties and loved by the people, it is known as the real king of miraculous help.

(Master Sa Shi Tian holds a statue of Bao Fan)

Master of Blue Clouds-Sa Shi Tian

Shi Tian is the most ambiguous of the four Shi Tian. Originally, he was a doctor, but later he abandoned medicine and joined the literature to drive away evil spirits, diseases and disasters for the world. According to legend, on the way to seek Tao, I met two real people, Wenqing Wang and Lin Lingsu, sent by Shen Xiao, and Zhang Jixian, the 30 th generation Tianshi of Longhushan. At that time, the third division anonymously gave the trump card a method, a curse jujube, a curse Fan disease, and a curse Lei. Later, Sa Shi Tian used dates to cure diseases and save lives. Use thunder to ward off evil spirits and pray for sunshine and rain; Bring people back to life with a five-Ming ghost fan.

Among them, Sa Shi Tian is famous for his thunder method, and he has books such as On Thunder and On Continued Thunderstorm. He accumulated virtue in Xiu De all his life, taught Taoism, put down demons, and finally got the Tao soaring. Taking Wang Shan as his disciple, that is, Wang Lingguan, founded the "Sazu School". Among all the thunder methods of the Shen Xiao School, some Taoism methods are based on handcuffs, with its protector Wang Shan as the commander-in-chief, which have a far-reaching influence on later Taoism. When he became the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, he named his trump card as "the true gentleman who worships kindness" and was praised by the people.

(Zhang Tianshi and Xu)

(Statues of Sa Shi Tian and Ge Shi Tian)

To sum up, we can see from the following points why Shi Tian and Zhong Kui cannot be one of the four Taoist priests in Shi Tian:

First of all, the Four Celestial Teachers have achieved great success. Unlike Zhong Kui, who hated it and became a ghost in the underworld, he went straight to heaven.

Second, the Four Celestial Masters observed the sufferings of the people, experienced the hardships of the sun, the moon and the wind, and practiced their internal skills hard, bringing peace to the people and being admired and believed by the people. Although Zhong Kui failed to do things for the people in high school, he chose to commit suicide, which is against human nature, so he can't go directly to heaven.

Third, the Four Celestial Teachers all set up schools for future generations, founded Taoism, wrote books and left them for future generations to practice, which was believed by future generations of monks, far less than that of Zhong Kui.

Fourth, the four heavenly teachers are all sheltered by heaven and have a strong background. They are deeply loved by the old gentleman and other Taoist priests and teach Taoism and the True Classics. But Zhong Kui didn't, and there was no circle of contacts in the celestial world. No wonder he couldn't get into the high position.

Fifth, all four Tianshi were awarded high positions. Although Zhong Kui was also given a higher vocational position, his level was not enough. To put it bluntly, his influence is not as far-reaching as the four heavenly teachers in the world.

Therefore, although Zhong Kui is a heavenly teacher who can ascend to heaven and be the God of all things, he is also the most diligent civil servant. The four heavenly teachers are all directors, but they are all celebrities in the Jade Emperor Temple, so they don't care about many trivial things on earth.