In some martial arts novels, "three flowers gather at the top" is often used to describe a person's martial arts. For example, in the novel Legend of the Condor Heroes, "three flowers gathering at the top" is the most powerful palm technique of Quanzhen Sect, and Qiu Chuji used this palm technique to repel a thousand-handed man-Tu Peng Lian Hu. In addition, in the mythical film Nezha. The magic boy came to earth ",Taiyi real people in order to save Nezha and Ao Bing, resulting in their own" three flowers "were scattered, lost for hundreds of years. So what does "three flowers gather at the top" mean since it is so powerful?
"Three flowers gather at the top and five qi are in the yuan" is a term of Taoist inner alchemy. As we all know, Taoism, as a local sect, has a history of more than 1,800 years since it was formally founded in Shi Tian, Zhang Daoling in the Eastern Han Dynasty. With the development and integration of Taoism, Taoism finally formed an orthodox school focusing on the practice of Zhai Fuyou and an all-truth school focusing on the practice of Dan Tao. The practice of alchemy is divided into inner elixir and outer elixir, also called elixir, which is made by burning drugs outside the human body. Ancient Taoist priests and even emperors were keen on refining medicines for external use. It is recorded in the Four Classics of Shennong: "Taking medicine can prolong life, promote people to become gods, walk up and down, and serve all spirits ..." Shi Tian's ancestor Zhang Daoling refined the nine-day elixir in Longhushan, and Sun Simiao, the drug king, wrote the Classic of Taiqing Elixir, Taitai Liu 'an, the king of Huainan, and the recipe for refining mica. Neidan takes the human body as the cauldron and the essence, qi and spirit of human beings as medicine, so that the three are mixed into one big Dan.
Therefore, in Neidan's practice, "spirit and spirit" are the three most important factors, and "essence" is the foundation of life and the most fundamental function. "Health Record" said: "The Tao takes essence as its treasure, giving it will give birth to people, and keeping it will give birth to people. If you are born, you will seek to be in the fairy position, and if you are born, you will retreat. " "Qi" is the basic element of human activities, which can be divided into congenital qi and acquired qi. "God" is the master of human activities, which is related to the survival of life. Then four hundred words say: "Essence is qi, gasification is god, deification is virtual", and the essence and spirit are combined into one place, so it is called "three flowers gather at the top". So "three flowers" refer to the essence, qi and spirit of the human body. Because Taoism follows the principle of "the practice of Buddhism does not spread to Liu Er", the famous people in Inner Dan will write some ancient books in an abstract way to prevent the secret from being leaked. The flower of "Three Flowers" is actually a "flower", which expresses the brilliance of human spirit.
In addition, the internal meaning of "three flowers" is "three yang". For example, as recorded in "Zhong You's Preaching Collection", it is recorded that Zhong Liquan, the founder of Quanzhen, preached: "The golden liquid belongs to Dan to refine the golden sands, and the five gases are near the Yuan, and the three yang gather at the top, which is to refine the gas into a god, not just to practice the shape and live in the world." The technique of returning the golden liquid to Dan is the method of cultivating immortality. In order to be afraid of revealing the secret, I wrote in the back, "I hid the unexpected opportunity of heaven and earth with the method of true fairy, but forgot the mysterious purpose of words and images, and there is no reason to ask and answer." The "top" of the "three flowers gathering at the top" is a tripod, which refers to Baihui point on the top of a person's head, also known as mud pillow palace. Through the three realms of "refining qi, refining qi, refining spirit and eliminating deficiency", the essence in the body finally merges into one, reaching one place and reaching the realm of no self.
Five Qi in Five Dynasties refers to the qi of heart, liver, kidney, lung and spleen in the body. There is a saying in the preface to the four hundred words of then: "If you can't see, your soul is in the liver; if you don't hear, your kidney; if your tongue is silent, your heart is in your eyes; if your nose is not fragrant, your soul is in your lungs; if your limbs don't move, your spleen, hence the name." Taoism believes that the five qi of ordinary people are scattered in the parts where the five elements belong and cannot be combined into one. People's five internal organs were originally guarded by five emperors: blue, red, yellow, white and black. "Di Qing is under the control of A, B and Mude, Chi Di is under the control of C, Bai Di is under the control of Geng Xin Jinde, Hei Di is under the control of Gui Ren Shui De, and Huangdi is under the control of Wuji Tude." Five Qi and Yuanhui are the confluence of Jinde Four Qi and Shuide One Qi, and Mude Three Qi and Huode Two Qi are also five. The central government has its own five flags, the "Three Five" meeting, the four flags meeting and the five flags meeting at the top, which embodies a high realm of inner alchemy.
Taoism believes that after reaching the realm of "three flowers gather at the top and five qi are in the yuan", you can become immortal. Zhong Liquan, the founder of Taoism, thinks that cultivating immortals can be divided into five kinds of immortals, namely immortals, earthly immortals, immortals and ghost immortals. "Fairy, tired of living and dying with earthly immortals, study hard, connect joints, lead and add mercury, and refine their gold. Jade liquid belongs to Dan, refined into gas, five gases welcome Yuan, and three yang gather at the top. Get carried away, the fetus becomes immortal. Yin essence and yang essence, there is a body outside. Exquisite and immortal, extraordinary and sacred. Rejecting the customs and returning to the three mountains is also a fairy. " "Immortal" is a second-class immortal, and it is a symbol of the yogi's transcendence of worldly immortals, extraordinary holiness, and the achievement that Yang Shen can live alone without body. They broke away from the secular world and ascended to the Three Mountain Immortals. Refined into the realm of "three flowers gather at the top, and five gases are opposite to the yuan", you can become immortal.