Chapter 38 ? Huang Tingjing and the Shangqing School
It is really difficult for ordinary people to understand the translation of Taoist exercises, because Taoism has been passed down to this day and is divided into many factions. Although many theories are generally common, they also have their own differences. If you do not understand the origins of the exercises, you will apply them rashly.
It's easy to be obsessed with something crazy.
Fortunately, Taoism has been passed down to this day. In this modern information-rich society, many classics and secrets are not secrets. They can be found online. Although there may not be real practice secrets, the terms and ideas in them are the same.
No, Guo Shihu asked an acquaintance, a senior from Jinling University’s Classical Literature Society, and got a forum URL.
Gao Jingkun saw Guo Shihuo open his portable laptop, enter the website address, and open an antique forum interface.
"Stories from ancient and modern times?"
Guo Shihu explained with a smile:
"This is a very niche ancient literature forum. It is said that it is filled with professionals and senior enthusiasts in the field of ancient literature. It adopts a member recommendation system. If it is not recommended by seniors, we will not be able to register even if we know the website address."
After following the steps and entering the invitation code to complete the registration, you will actually enter the forum's member page.
Gao Jingfei also browsed it next to him.
This forum has multiple sections such as poems and songs, Confucian classics, official and unofficial history, legends of legends, Taoist and Buddhist scriptures, etc. Guo Shihu opened the section on Taoist classics with a very clear purpose. Gao Jingfei's sharp eyes saw that there was something at the top of the forum.
A comparative explanation of Taoist terminology.
Guo Shihu saw what he wanted and said with a smile:
"Okay, with this section, our translation work will be much easier."
With that said, the two of them divided the work and worked together to translate the five poison secrets in their hands based on the above explanations.
In this forum section, there are not only definitions of specific practice terms and Taoist vocabulary, but also interpretations and annotations by ancient and modern people. Gao Jingfei, who did not know much about ancient texts, quickly understood the meaning of many Taoist terms and metaphors.
Equivalent to having a translation dictionary of exercises, the two of them were very motivated. First, through systematic reading and sorting, Guo Shihu and Gao Jingfei systematically sorted out the contents of this incomplete version of the Five Poison Secrets, which was roughly divided into four parts.
The first category is the internal skills and martial arts moves that they value most, which is the set of internal skills called the Five Poison Divine Skills by the Five Poison Sect and the accompanying fist and foot equipment moves.
The second category is the special skills of the Five Poison Sect, such as refining and detoxifying poisons and refining medicines.
The third category is the most mysterious part of raising voodoos and taming animals, which seems very strange and mysterious to modern people. After all, voodoos are the kind of tiny bugs that most people think of, and they are existences that everyone is afraid of.
The last category makes Gao Jingfei a little strange. It is the content recorded at the end of the secret book. It seems to be the ancient and primitive witchcraft in the southwest, including spells, secrets, rituals, etc.
These things are like the shamans from the north, the magic men from the south, the witch-like gods and gods, and many of the spells have very weird pronunciation, not like human language at all.
In the end, Gao Jingfei temporarily put all these things behind him, and what he paid most attention to was the Five Poison Magic Technique, the legendary internal power cultivation method.
Which Xia people, especially boys, didn’t have a martial arts dream when they were young?
They yearn for the dashing young heroes who are proud of themselves and the righteous heroes with superb martial arts skills.
The same is true for the two souls of Gao Jingfei, especially when he was a child in his previous life, he had many fantasies about learning advanced martial arts, and then beating up those who bullied him one by one, so that they could all change their ways.
And this secret book can be rated as a green extraordinary thing, which is obviously extraordinary. Even though it comes from heresies, it also makes him want to practice even more.
Gao Jingfei is like this, not to mention Guo Shihu, who is a two-dimensional otaku. Mastering extraordinary power has always been his dream.
The two opened the internal strength part of the Five Poison Secret Manual that Gao Jingfei had copied before, and the opening chapter was a preface.
There are many similarities between traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters, but they are easier to recognize. Gao Jingfei pronounced them word for word:
"Heart Shen Dan Yuan has the character to guard the spirit, Lung God has the character Hao Hua to make up, the Liver God has the character Dragon Smoke to be clear, Yu Yu guides the smoke to have the clear character, the Kidney God Xuan Ming has the character to nurture the baby, the Spleen God is always in the character Soul Stop, and the Gallbladder God has the character Dragon Yao.
Wei Ming. The six internal organs, the five internal organs, the spirit and the body essence all circulate the heavenly scriptures in the heart, and they are stored day and night for self-immortality."
On the other side, Guo Shihu quickly checked this passage online and immediately discovered the source.
"That's why I felt familiar with it before. It turns out that this paragraph is said in the "Huang Ting Jing", which talks about the hundreds of gods in the human body and the gods sitting in the five internal organs. In fact, it uses Taoist cultivation methods to develop the hidden potential and potential of each organ and tissue of the human body.
Function."
"Huang Ting Jing?"
These three words Gao Jingfei sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard them before.
Guo Shihu explained: "This is a classic of the Shangqing Sect and is also considered the first Taoist scripture. Of course, this is controversial. Some people think that the first Taoist scripture is the Taiping Jing!"
Gao Jingfei said doubtfully:
“Isn’t the first Tao Te Ching?”
Gao Jingfei asked the doubts in most people's minds.
Guo Shihu explained: "First of all, you have to distinguish clearly what is Taoism and what is Taoism. The two are different."
"Taoism originated very early, but it was first regarded as a kind of belief or academic thought by our ancestors. Just like the ancestral beliefs of our Xia people, it is an existence passed down in our blood, not a religion."
"It wasn't until Zhang Tianshi founded the Five Pecks of Rice Dao in the Han Dynasty that Taoist thought was condensed into a religion. It went through the stages of the Five Pecks of Rice Dao and the Taiping Dao, and finally formed the Taoism we see in modern times during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Of course, at that time, Taoism was either the Tianshi Dao or the Shangqing sect.
They are all Fulu sect, and the Quanzhen Taoist priests we see now are a major branch that emerged in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, and together with the Zhengyi sect of the Three Mountains, they are called the two major sects of Taoism."
"So strictly speaking, the first Taoist scripture should be the Taiping Jing, not the Tao Te Ching. However, because the Taiping Jing was involved in the Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was used by the Yellow Turban Dao, also known as the Taiping Dao, to launch a revolution to overthrow the dynasty.
It was regarded as a prophecy, so it was disliked by later generations of rulers and literati."
"Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Taoist sect has flourished. Even the officials and scholar-bureaucrats like to sit and talk about Taoism when they have nothing to do. However, except for the Taiping Jing, which was once regarded as a holy book by Emperor Chen Xuan to support the dynasty, most scholar-bureaucrats are not very fond of it.
Paying attention to this book, Fan Ye even said that the Taiping Jing 'is based on yin and yang and the five elements, but contains many miscellaneous words of shamans and witches'."
"The Taiping Jing actually played a great role in the history of Taoism. It integrated various Taoist thoughts and immortal alchemy since the pre-Qin Dynasty, and created a more systematic theory of immortals that was in line with our Xia folk customs. It was the original main classic of Taoism.
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"Many concepts in the sutra, including the previous chapter, first fault, body and spirit, responsibility, etc., were also inherited by later Taoism; Taiping Tao taught people to kneel down and confess their sins, and used talismans and incantations to cure people's illnesses.
They are all based on the Taiping Sutra. At the same time, this sutra also developed the meditation methods of "Cunsi" and "Keeping One", making the Taoist meditation method more systematic. The sutra points out that gods who make mistakes will be demoted to the earth, so
It became the source of the legend of banishing immortals for later generations."
"It can be said that the Taiping Jing is the rules and regulations of Taoism. Compared with the Tao Te Ching, the two are completely different."
"It's just the same point as mentioned before. Because the two large-scale uprisings of Taiping Dao and Tianshi Dao Sun En not only made the rulers wary, but also created taboos within Taoism, so they repeatedly changed the meaning of scriptures and preached in public.
There are no more words in the Taiping Jing, and the contents of the Taiping Jing are old-fashioned and have no new ideas or innovations. Most of them are fixed concepts, which is not conducive to the development of Taoism, so there is another first Taoist scripture, that is,
The emergence of "Huang Ting Jing"."
Guo Shihu was obviously very interested in these. He analyzed the articles on the computer one by one and chatted with Gao Jingfei.
"When talking about the Huang Ting Jing, we have to talk about the Shang Qing School, because it is the supreme classic of the Shang Qing School. As for whether the Shang Qing School came into existence because of the scriptures, or whether the Huang Ting Jing came into existence because of the birth of the Shang Qing School, then as descendants, we will