First, Zhang Sanfeng described in historical materials.
Based on various historical materials, it can be generally confirmed that Quan Yi, also known as Xuanxuan and Yi Tong, was born in Zhang Sanfeng 1247 or 1248. Born in today's Heishan County, Liaoning Province, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province and Shaowu City, Fujian Province.
It is said that he looks extraordinary, with big ears and eyes, "turtle-shaped crane bone", a beard like steel wire, a bun on his head and a square ruler in his hand. No matter whether it is cold or hot, I just wear a patchwork coat and wander in the street. People have nicknamed me "Zhang Sloppy".
This Zhang Sanfeng doesn't talk much at ordinary times, but when discussing Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism with him, Kan Kan talks in Kan Kan. "Based on virtue, righteousness, loyalty and filial piety, there is no false blessing or false disaster, which is deceptive. Therefore, heart and divine power, God and Tao, all things are established in advance. "
Zhang Sanfeng has two miracles. First, he climbs the mountain like a flat ground, and he can sleep in the snow in the dead of winter. Its physical quality stands out among the people who generally have insufficient food and clothing and weak constitution.
Secondly, in the early years of Hongwu, he established several strongholds in Wudang Mountain, so that his disciple Qiu Xuanqing lived in Wulong, Lu lived in Nanyan and Liu and Yang Shandeng lived in Zixiao. I set up a view in the north of Zhanqi Peak, named Palace, and built a house in the loess city, named Huixian Pavilion, so that disciple Zhou really kept it.
It can be seen that he has some business acumen. If he had lived to this day, he would not have lost to Li Yi.
2. Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to find Zhang Sanfeng
But I wonder if you have noticed that Zhang Sanfeng was born in the 1940s and Hongwu was 1368 years old in his early years. It's amazing to be able to go up the mountain for construction at such an age.
What's even more surprising is that "Hongwu Gengwu (Sanfeng) has been walking for a long time, and I don't know where it is", 1390, and Zhang Sanfeng left with his sleeves swinging. Shortly thereafter, there was an upsurge of searching for Zhang Sanfeng in one's hand and one's hand.
First, Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to Wudang Mountain to find Zhang Sanfeng, but they were not allowed to see him. Some people say that he may have gone to Yunmen Mountain Cave in Qingzhou, Shandong Province. Zhu Yuanzhang's servant hurried to Qingzhou, but he didn't see any Zhang Sifeng in Zhang Sanfeng.
Zhu Yuanzhang went to Zhang Sanfeng, supposedly to rectify Taoism. "If you can see Zhang, ask him to come and talk to me." Looking for him is not in a hurry, it belongs to one build what did not build. When it came to his son, Judy, the Yongle emperor, the tone suddenly became higher.
3. Find Zhang Sanfeng or die.
After Yongle ascended the throne, Hu Guang, a bachelor, was sent to Wudang Mountain to visit the immortals. Hu Guang walked back and forth several times and asked everyone. The disciples either answered that they went to place A or place B, but they were not in Wudang Mountain. Nothing has happened for more than ten years.
Later, Yongle told Hu Guang: Find Zhang Sanfeng or die. So, Hu Guang reported that he had seen Zhang Sanfeng, but the real person wanted to have dinner with the old gentleman, so he couldn't be invited. Please understand. This means just some myths and legends or nonsense. Only blame the emperor for pushing too hard.
But at least I gave Yongle an answer. When Ming Chengzu was happy, he wrote a letter to Zhang Sanfeng. He regretted it and was very devout. He said, "I have heard a lot of true stories and I really want to see you; You are morally noble and above everything else, while I am ignorant and humble in virtue. I hope you will definitely come to Beijing when you are free. I am waiting for you. "
It is said that Zhang Sanfeng wrote a letter to Yongle, telling the way of keeping in good health, but it is not clear whether this letter was written by Zhang Sanfeng.
Four. Zhang Sanfeng in Folklore
In order to please Zhang Sanfeng, Emperor Yongle built many buildings in Wudang Mountain, including eight palaces, two temples, thirty-six halls of Lu 'an and seventy-two rock temples for Zhang Sanfeng.
Supposedly, an old man like Zhang Sanfeng should guess with his feet that he is dead, so why bother to search for him? It turns out that Zhang Sanfeng's whereabouts have been circulated among the people all over the country.
Yang Pu's Collection of Zen Metaphysics says that Zhang Sanfeng once came back from the dead in Baoji, Shaanxi: "On September 20, the 26th year of Hongwu (1393), (Zhang Sanfeng) died after his words, and Yang Guishan and other people put coffins to rest, watched in prison, and then came back to life in Sanfeng."
Zhang, a native of Zhecheng County, Henan Province, claimed to have seen Zhang Sanfeng in the Taoist Temple. At the age of thirteen, Zhang Sanfeng asked him where he came from and what his name was. He answered them one by one. The other party told him, "I'm Zhang Sanfeng, and I had dinner at your house."
5. The emperors of Ming Dynasty gave titles one after another.
Later, Zhang became an official and mentioned this matter to Emperor Yongle. Yongle sent him and went to Wudang Mountain to find Zhang Sanfeng.
Others said in their notes that "(Sanfeng) orthodoxy still exists". Orthodoxy is the title of Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, the great-grandson of Emperor Yongle. Some people say that he is "at the end of the day, or hidden or present", which goes further. Even during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, a man named Wang Mengjiu claimed to have seen Sanfeng and talked with him.
These indistinguishable news stimulated the nerves of the emperors like stimulants. If you can find such a fairy and ask her face to face how to live a long life, can't you enjoy all the splendor in the world?
Emperors of the Ming Dynasty believed that Zhang Sanfeng, who had no tail, was still alive, and they gave him titles in succession. Ming Yingzong named him "Tongwei reveals the truth", Ming Xianzong named him "keeping a low profile and keeping a low profile, and the top gun is a true fairy", and Emperor Shizong of Ming Dynasty named him "a wonderful and true gentleman".
The guessing of intransitive verbs about Zhang Sanfeng.
So, where did Zhang Sanfeng go, dead or alive? According to the textual research of Li, the author of Taiji Genealogy and Origin in Ancient and Modern Times, Zhang Sanfeng died in the second year of Tianshun in Ming Dynasty (1458), and his life span was 2 12 years. Of course, this is inferred from sporadic written records, and many people agree with this statement.
We can't conclude that facts don't exist just because they are beyond our imagination; Nor can we stop putting forward different opinions just because the experts have given a result. I think there are several possibilities:
First, there is no Zhang Sanfeng. The Taoist living in Wudang Mountain invented such an elder and supported him with his legendary experience.
Secondly, there was a man like Zhang Sanfeng, but he died when he became famous in the early years of Hongwu. His followers used his excuse of traveling abroad to deify his master.
Third, someone deliberately muddied the water and fabricated the experience of meeting him to confuse the audience; Someone pretended to be Zhang Sanfeng and used his name to cheat;
Fourthly, in three or four hundred years, there were several people named Zhang Sanfeng or whose names were pronounced the same as "Zhang Sanfeng", all of whom were recorded in writing. People confuse these people into one person and concoct a fairy named Zhang Sanfeng.
Zhang Sanfeng died in the end anyway. Nobody knows where he died, so people have to assume that he is still alive. Maybe, he still lives among us ~