The factions of Taoism actually began between Song and Jin Dynasties. Taoism is actually a big family linked by religion, with a common ancestor, a common genealogy of generations and a common ancestral family. In this Taoist family, the property of the jungle is public.
Quanzhen school pays attention to the cultivation of internal and external alchemy. Inner alchemy is the cultivation of human essence, qi and spirit, and it is the main cultivation method of Quanzhen School. Waidan is a method of preparing and burning edible pills with lead, mercury and drugs.
In orthodox religion, Taoist priests mainly carry out activities of exorcising ghosts and praying for blessings. Traditionally, the Taoists of this school are monks, who can get married and have children and live a family life. You can eat meat; In addition to chanting and confessing in the temple, you can usually wear vulgar clothes without a beard, and do as the Romans do.
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Taoism, which originated in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, is a primitive religious form of polytheism. Its main purpose is to pursue immortality, achieve immortality, and help the world and save people. It occupies an important position in China's ancient traditional culture and develops actively in the modern world.
Although Taoism has been one of hundred schools of thought since the Warring States Period, it deified the former moral philosophers. Cults didn't appear until the end of the Han Dynasty, and Shi Tian of Yizhou (now Sichuan) addressed Lao Zi as a gentleman. By the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the religious form of Taoism was gradually improved. Laozi Li Er (the Grandfather) was the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, and in the Tang Dynasty he was honored as the sage of Yuanque Avenue and the Emperor Xuanyuan.
Taoism takes "Tao" as its highest belief and holds that "Tao" is the source of all things. In the traditional culture of China, Taoism, together with Confucianism and Buddhism, is a dominant theory and a way to cultivate immortality.
Taoism in academic circles now refers to the ancient religious beliefs in China, which inherited most religious concepts and practice methods of Fang and Huang, as well as folk belief in gods, and gradually formed the highest belief of "Tao". It is a kind of China religion that takes Taishang Laojun as the leader and Laozi's Tao Te Ching as the classic of cultivating immortality, rather than the main sutra of cultivating immortality, and pursues cultivating immortality.
There are five main ways for Taoism to become immortal, namely, taking elixir of life, external alchemy, refining qi to lead the way, practicing inner alchemy, using Taoist utensils and other rituals and self-cultivation to achieve immortality. Most of the later immortals practiced inner alchemy and practiced morality and Taoism.
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