What is the difference between gods and immortals in Taoism?

Taoism takes "Tao" as its highest belief. Tao is invisible, but it breeds everything in the world. The expression of "Tao" in people and everything is "virtue". Therefore, everything respects Tao and morality. The Tao disperses into qi and gathers into God. Immortals are both the embodiment of Tao and the model of Tao. The purpose of immortals is to save the world. Old believers believe in morality and worship immortals. The highest deity that Taoism believes in is "Sanqing", followed by the Jade Emperor and other four emperors, and then the gods. Other gods who perform their duties, the people are most familiar with the gods of wind, rain, thunder, electricity, water and fire, as well as the god of wealth, kitchen god, city god, land and so on.

There are two kinds of gods in Taoism. One is to worship God first, which is the representative of the origin of heaven and earth, such as Sanqing. One is the post-god, and good people or people with great achievements are dubbed gods, land gods and so on.

Immortality is acquired, which refers to the cultivation of some special methods of immortality.

Buddhism is 30%, which can be divided into small success, medium success and great success. There are five kinds of immortals: ghost immortals, human immortals, common immortals, immortals and immortals, all of which are immortals. Ghosts and gods can't live without ghosts, immortals can't live without people, earthly immortals can't live without land, immortals can't live without God, and immortals can't live without heaven.

The early Taoist classic Taiping Jing divided immortals into six categories: first, gods, second, real people, third, immortals, fourth, Tao, fifth, saints and sixth, sages. He also said: "God is God, real people are landlords, immortals are the masters of storms, Taoist bishops are good or bad, saints manage the people, and sages help saints manage the people's records and help Liuhe."

Jin's Inner Chapter of Bao Puzi. On Immortals, which is quoted from the Classic of Immortals, divides immortals into three categories: celestial immortals, earthly immortals and corpse immortals. He said: "The staff sergeant raises his shape and raises his emptiness, which is called the fairy; The sergeant traveled to a famous mountain and was called a fairy; The corporal dies first and dies, which is called the corpse to solve the fairy. "

Liang Tao Hongjing's Bitmap of True Spirit divides immortals into seven levels: Jade Qing, Shangqing, Taiji, Taiqing, Jiugong, Dong Tian and Taiyin.