Dodge Magic of Taoism in China

In China, the so-called "five escapes" method of alchemists in the old days was a Taoist method in which immortals used five things to hide their shapes. Evasion of Five Elements —— Fire, Water and Earth in Jin Mu.

Xie Ming and Zhao Zhe's Five Miscellaneous People's Department II: "In the Han Dynasty, both Nugu and Zhang Diao were able to live in seclusion and could not go in and out through the portal, so they will be Tibetan ancestors in the future. Xiang Jie, Zuo Ci, Yu Ji, Meng Qin, Luo, and others, as well as the witches Zhang Dan and Chen Lin in the Book of Jin, are all based on this. Call it a fairy, but it's not. There are five methods: golden shield, wooden shield, water shield, fire shield and earth shield. You can hide when you see it. Only soil is the fastest, and there is no soil anywhere. "

Fu Qinjia's History of Taoism in China, Chapter 8, Section 3: "There are five ways to escape in later generations, which can be said according to Jin Mu's five elements of fire, water and soil. You can't change his seclusion and rise to the day, and the deceased, Taoist books call it autopsy, and say that he will become immortal and install a corpse to solve it. "