What is the mysterious water in Taoism for?

Taoism has a history of several thousand years in China, which is closely linked with the history of China, and is a native religion in China. Taoism takes "Tao" as its highest belief and holds that "Tao" is the source of all things. Many theories about Taoism have not been fully understood, and the mysterious water in Taoism is even more puzzling. Let's take a look at Taoist culture.

Fu You School, also known as Fu Shui Dao, is the general name of all Taoist schools that mainly treat diseases and exorcise ghosts by magic and other methods. The early Wudoumi Road and Taiping Road, and the later Lingbao School, Shangqing School and Zhengyi Road all belong to Ruopai School. Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, this school has followed the new trend, reformed the old religion, and produced new schools of Fu You Dao, such as selflessness, simplicity and clarity, which made new progress in Fu You alchemy. Since the Yuan Dynasty, the Fuyou School and Taoism have been unified. The mission of the school is to eliminate disasters, treat diseases and eliminate epidemics in ancient times, and help others to live and die, which is closely related to the folk customs of our country.

Draw or burn symbols in the water to show that drinking can cure diseases. Zhang Lu Biography, Volume 8 of the History of the Three Kingdoms, quoted Dian Lue: "Those who are at peace, the teacher holds nine sticks as a blessing, and teaches patients to kowtow and think, because they drink it with water. If you get sick, or get over it, you will know that this person is a channel; If you don't treat it, you don't believe it. " "Song Shu Yang Xin Chuan": "You are always so yellow and old, and you often write your own chapters. Don't take medicine if you are sick, just drink water. " There is a "theory of drowning" in volume 57 of the Seven Signs of Yunfu.

The "god" in the world must return to fire, and the "essence" in the world must return to water. Fire and water discipline, everything is harmonious. Laozi said, "Goodness is like water. Water is the good of all things and the evil of all people, so it is a few words." Because water can process and improve the information of all beings, water has become a form of expression of "Tao Xing". The 5,000 words in Tao Te Ching are all "non-constant Tao", in a word, "water". Everybody count how much water I said. The Tao Te Ching contains the following chapters: Chapter IV, Chapter VIII, Chapter XV, Chapter XXVIII, Chapter XXVIII, Chapter XXXII, Chapter XXXII and so on. It's full of water, too numerous to mention. And rich water is not just ordinary water.

From ancient times to the present, the lofty principles and virtues of Taoism all know the way of "good water management", which is the ancient and mysterious "water charm method" in China. The origin of magic is very old, relatively speaking, the history of magic is earlier. The dictionary defines a spell as "the secret language in some religions or witchcraft, that is, prayer." Wishing is an early form of incantation. "Zhengzitong" says: "Turn into a mantra in the classics". Shuo Wen Jie Zi interprets Zhu as "paying tribute to the Lord".

Zhou Li said, "I make you six wishes to serve God, express my blessing and seek eternal chastity." These records clearly reflect that the meaning of wishing is a ceremony for the mage to pray for God's blessing through beautiful language and to eliminate disasters and solve problems in heaven. "Fu Shui" and "Curse Method" are methods which take water as the carrier, and inject air into the water by the mage, and accurately judge the cause and effect of people and things according to the special patterns formed in the water, so as to eliminate the doomed obstacles to love evil and achieve the purpose of seeking good fortune and avoiding evil. It has been used by Taoist temples and folk Taoist altars since ancient times.