wudang mountain
As one of the orthodox holy places of Taoism in the Sui Dynasty, Wudang Mountain Sanqing Temple has never lacked attention, but the Taoists in Wudang Mountain are all very low-key, unlike the Qingle Mountain Yiqi Temple that opens the door to welcome visitors, so Wudang Mountain Sanqing Temple has always been It was very deserted, so deserted that there were hardly any guests.
Compared with Yiqiguan, this place is purer.
So very long ago, when Xiao Yijiu visited Wudang Mountain, he once said that if one day I only have Tao in my heart, then I will come to Wudang Mountain to be a junior disciple, not the master of Yiqi Temple. These words are for the people of Wudang Mountain, and of course they are praiseworthy words for the Three Purities of Wudang Mountain. However, thinking about it later, when Xiao Yijiu said this, it might not be without some sincere emotion.
However, what is a little embarrassing is that Xiao Yijiu, who was originally focused on power, is now concentrating on practicing. The Taoists of Wudang Mountain began to walk out of the mountain gate when Prince Yi rebelled. After Zhang Zhenren escorted the God Bless Emperor Yang Yi all the way back to Beijing, the Wudang Mountain Sanqing Temple seemed to become closer to the court and the world.
Sitting firmly in Zhang Zhenren's army, Luo Yao would not kill people like walking around in Pang Ba's army.
Isn't it an attitude that Zhang Zhenren killed the tiger in Yongzhou
Looking at it now, it turns out that the Taoists of Wudang Mountain have a clearer attitude than the Taoists of Yiyiguan. Some people in the world say that Yiqiguan, the holy place of Taoism, is the holy place of secular Taoism. Sanqingguan, the holy place of Taoism, is the holy place of Taoism.
But who would have thought that things would change so quickly.
The Taoists of Yiqi Temple began to take another path, and the Temple of Sanqing was pushed to the forefront. Xiao Yijiu traveled far, and Xiang Qingniu joined the Black Banner Army. Everyone in the rivers and lakes could see clearly that Yiqiguan wanted to place the bet on the court. In such troubled times, the bet does not seem surprising. On the contrary, it is Wudang Mountain Sanqing Temple, which bets on the Yang family when the Sui Dynasty has collapsed, which makes people a little puzzled.
However, when many Jianghu people mention Daozong, they automatically ignore the Qingle Mountain Yiqi Temple, because there are no masters in that temple, and there is only one Zhuo Buyi who somehow got into the Yiqi Temple and somehow became the pillar of the Yiqi Temple. However, some scum of the rivers and lakes who thought they could be bullied ran to take advantage of it, and they were abolished by Zhuo Buyi, who claimed to be a Taoist in commoner clothes, 216 of them.
Most of them are miserable, and a small part are even worse.
If it seems that one-mindedness is very powerful, then another sentence should be used to describe Wudang Mountain.
After Zhang Zhenren stepped into the sky in one step, no one dared to come to Wudang Mountain to discuss the two words. Even when Master Zhang is not in the mountains, it is the same. The rivers and lakes say that the big is very big, and the small is also very small. It will not take long for some news to spread all over the world. It is precisely because Zhang Zhenren himself said that he is already in the sky, and those practitioners who think that the ninth rank is the extreme state know that they are How insignificant.
It was also after this that the realm of the rivers and lakes was no longer the highest of the ninth rank.
Why is there a martial arts conference
Above the ninth grade is transparent, above transparent is near heaven, and above near sky is above heaven.
As usual, the junior disciples of Wudang Mountain got up early, took a broom after washing and began to clean the courtyard gate. From the foot of Wudang Mountain to the front of Sanqing Guanmen, there are 3,333 stone steps to walk, and the disciples of Wudang Mountain have to sweep the stone steps carefully every day.
A chubby Taoist priest who looked only seven or eight years old rubbed his sore legs and complained: "Brother, there are no guests in the mountain gate, why do you have to sweep the stone steps every day? I already swept it yesterday and it looks very clean." Well, why are you still sweeping today..."
The sixteen or seventeen-year-old brother answered him strangely: "You ate yesterday, why do you want to eat today?"
This is what his senior brother answered him back then. It is said that his senior brother's senior brother answered him this way.
"What does eating have to do with sweeping the floor..."
The naive little Taoist muttered something, but he didn't dare to stop. He continued to sweep earnestly, sweeping every step three times, never missing one step. Because the Taoists in Wudang Mountain dare not forget the words of the master, Master Zhang said that as much as the daily homework should be, if you are lazy even the most basic things, then you will be lazy in the cultivation base you get in the future , come as little as possible.
"Huh?"
He suddenly saw a guest coming down the mountain, he was a little surprised: "Brother, is the person over there male or female?"
The senior brother looked in the direction he pointed, then scratched his forehead: "This... I can't see clearly."
Because the person who came was too beautiful, he was not sure. The two brothers and sisters took a closer look, and then confirmed one thing at the same time. If this person is a man, he can fascinate a group of women. If this person is a woman, you can fascinate them both...
The person who came was wearing a crescent white gown without any wrinkles. She wore a pair of crescent white cloth shoes, which were spotless. It looked like a lotus flower blooming in mid-air, not even a drop of water. His hair was loosely tied behind his head, and it looked better than a girl's ponytail.
"Excuse me… "
The senior brother leaned slightly: "What are you doing in Wudang Mountain?"
The man in white answered very formally, but it just made the brother a little annoyed: "Look at Wudang Mountain."
"Sorry, unless it's an appointment, the Sanqing Temple doesn't see outsiders."
The younger brother raised his chubby chin and said: "Even if we have an appointment, we still have to wait for us to report back at the foot of the mountain. If you are traveling in the mountain, you can go by another road. This way only allows you to see the Sanqing Temple. The scenery on the other side is also more beautiful. There is a waterfall halfway up the mountain from that road, and there is a deep pool in the waterfall, and there are four-gill fish in the deep pool, which is delicious."
"Thanks."
The man in white smiled and nodded: "I'll go this way."
After speaking, he stepped forward and continued to walk up.
The little Taoist pulled his senior brother who was about to step forward to intercept him, and said in a low voice: "Senior brother, don't stop him, such a beautiful person shouldn't be a bad person, right?"
The senior brother was stunned for a moment and said angrily: "What's the use of being beautiful? Pretty mushrooms are poisonous!"
The white-clothed man paused slightly, smiled and said to the chubby Taoist: "Your senior brother is right, the more beautiful something is... the more careful it should be."
Just as the little Taoist was about to speak, he heard a sigh from the mountain gate: "I've been very careful, but I still can't avoid the beautiful poison."
The man in white looked up at the mountain and said, "Because you are already qualified."
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Sanqing Temple
The courtyard behind the main hall is not deep, and one hundred steps from the back door of the main hall will leave the back door of the back yard. All the pine trees in the backyard are said to have been planted by the patriarch when Sanqing Temple was established, and the smallest one is as thick as four people hugging each other. Because the yard is small and the trees are too big, the sun is not seen all year round.
There is a stone table under the pine tree, and two cups of green tea are placed on the stone table.
The master of the Sanqing Temple in Wudang Mountain, the most senior person in the Taoist sect, sat on the side of the stone table, staring at the heat in the cup in a daze.
Opposite him, the man in white was also looking at the teacup, but what he was thinking was completely different from what Zhang Yiyang was thinking. Zhang Yiyang was thinking about what the man opposite him was going to do, what he thought was how good the tea was.
"Is there an ancient tea tree in the temple?"
he asks
Zhang Yiyang nodded: "There is a centuries-old tea tree that grew crookedly on the edge of the ancient well and refused to die. This is a new tea picked this year. I roasted it with my own hands yesterday, and it still has some moisture."
"It smells wonderful. Why are the buds of the centuries-old tea tree more tender than the buds of the new tea tree?"
This question is a bit awkward.
Zhang Yiyang shook his head: "If you live for a long time, you will always have some advantages."
The man in white thought it made sense, and nodded: "That's a good idea."
Zhang Yiyang smiled: "I knew from a long time ago that there must be some old monsters in this river and lake, but I didn't expect that these old monsters looked more tender than the sprouts of those hundreds of years old tea trees."
The man in white is slightly ashamed: "The older I get, the more I like to pretend to be young."
Zhang Yiyang's smile was a bit bitter: "Then am I pretending to be old?"
He glanced at the man in white: "When I was a little Taoist boy, one day the master locked himself in the room when he came back from outside. I asked him why, and he said that he felt that he was a failure. He is a person who values A man with good looks, he looks like he is in his thirties after living a hundred years old, he always says that he is the most handsome middle-aged man, and he can coax a young woman into his arms when he goes down the mountain at a hundred years old."
"He was very depressed the day he came back. He said that he saw a middle-aged man in white clothes. He was very handsome. Compared with him, he was completely different. Even the rudest village woman in the village could see it. When I came out, I was not as good as that person, so I felt that I was a failure. Others practice, some are to win the fight, some are to prolong life, some are to pursue the limit... My master practice is just to make himself look younger than his age forever, that’s all Simple, but still defeated... "
The man in white took a sip of tea and said slowly: "Your master awakened earlier, earlier than you. When you are so old that you feel uncomfortable looking at your own face, you will also want to pretend to be tender. Old Shu , get a new skin. When you get old, get a new look. If he lives longer, he must have a higher level of cultivation than you, because he has a single goal."
Zhang Yiyang shook his head: "His cultivation never improved after that day, and he got older day by day. When he was dying, he told me that he was actually broken by someone."
The man in white smiled: "This is so mysterious, but I believe it."
Zhang Yiyang was silent, and asked after a while, "What are you doing here?"
"look at you."
The man in white replied.
Zhang Yiyang asked: "It's like you looked at me like you looked at my master back then? You were a middle-aged man at that time, but now you are a young man."
The man in white said: "If you are like the centuries-old tea tree on the edge of the ancient well, if you have been hiding in the ancient temple in the deep mountains and cannot come out, I will not come to see it. But you just go out to spread the fragrance of tea, and you will be attracted. I'm curious. Just like your master back then, if he admired himself in the mirror every day and didn't go out, I wouldn't look at him."
"However, there are exceptions. Many, many years ago, I was so curious to watch a person step up, stepping so high. The big strides were so fast that I was surprised. So I want to see , how are you compared to him?"
"Back then you saw him not moving him, why did you come to me?"
Zhang Yiyang asked.
The man in white smiled and said, "When I was halfway there, I was thirsty and went to a small village to ask for water. A cow was tied to an old tree at the entrance of the village and was grazing grass. Not far from the cow, two children were wrestling. The children were fighting. This kind of thing, of course, is that the big and strong one beat the thinner one, the beating was really hard... The beaten child lay on the ground crying, and asked the strong child that there are so many children in the village. Calling you a stupid cow, Sanni said behind your back that you were born ugly, if they didn't beat you, why did they come to beat me?"
He asked: "Guess, how did that sturdy kid answer?"
Zhang Yiyang thought for a while: "Because he doesn't like that skinny kid."
"Wrong..."
The smile of the man in white is like the sunlight that leaks out when the leaves are blowing: "That sturdy kid answered... because I am willing."