Taoism is a religion created by the Han nationality. Lushan Mountain was originally one of the earliest cradles of Taoism. According to the story of ancient Xunyang, during the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, there was a Taoist named Kuang and Zi Xiao. The houses built on the tops of Lushan Mountain and Huxi Mountain were named "Guangfu View". His seven brothers are all good at Taoism. They have been practicing Taoism here for more than one hundred years. King Ding of Zhou (606-586 BC) sent envoys to visit, but no custom was found. In the last 200 years, King Wei Lie of Zhou sent messengers to his place, leaving Lu alone. Later generations called Lushan Mountain Kuangshan, also known as Kuangshan. It can be seen that Taoism spread in Lushan earlier, with a history of more than 2500 years.

Buddhism, originally a foreign religion, became a part of the superstructure of China feudal society as soon as it was introduced to China, and was used and transformed by the ruling class to become a Chinese-style Buddhism. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Huiyuan and Huiyong, two famous monks in Shanxi, went south to Lushan Mountain. They loved their land. They successively built sairinji and Torinji under the censer peak, founded the Pure Land Sect theory, and together with the "eighteen nobles", organized the Anbaili Society to translate scriptures, which made them unique and became the ancestor of the Pure Land Sect in the East. Jing religion is the most popular religion in the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties. Since the Jin Dynasty, a number of eminent monks have appeared in Lushan Mountain, and there are many temples and pagodas. There are five jungles of Guizong, Xiufeng, Song Wan, Seven Sages and Haihui, more than 300 Buddhist temples, and thousands of monks come and go, which has become one of the central Dojo in Southern Buddhism, making local Taoism far behind.

In the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, Taoism is dwarfed mainly because there are not so many classics as Buddhism. Therefore, Lu, a Taoist priest in Lushan Mountain in the Southern Dynasties, undertook the important task of systematically sorting out Taoist classics.

Lu was a man who moved eastward (now east of Zhejiang County) and Yuan sold tea in Kyoto (AD 453). Emperor Wen ordered his left servant to shoot an announcement, but he resigned and left. Later, he toured Lushan Mountain in the south, built a house in front of Jinjifeng Waterfall Rock in the south of the mountain, and lived in Lushan Mountain for 65,438+07 years, compiling the Catalogue of Three Cave Classics. In 467 AD, Emperor Song Ming asked Jiangzhou to invite him into Beijing. Asked how many Taoist scriptures he had, Lu said, "Taoist scriptures, prescriptions, spells, pictures and so on." A total of 1228 volumes, of which 1090 volume has been published in the world, and 138 volume is still in the Tiangong. " At that time, Emperor Song Ming was amazed at his words and regarded them as immortals. Later, Lu went out and was buried in Lushan Mountain by his disciples. Liu Song issued an imperial edict to seal his former residence in Lushan Mountain as a simple and quiet view and eulogize him as Mr. Simple and quiet. During the reign of Xuanhe in Song Huizong, it was renamed Zhendanyuan.

According to later research, the secret of Lu's Tao Te Ching lies in the fusion and transformation of Buddhist scriptures. Lu himself admitted: "Or take more classics, or make a preface, or change the title of the book, in order to facilitate the sentence and chapter, and draw it." That is to say, he changed the title of the Buddhist scriptures back, changed the tail and added a sentence, which became the Taoist scriptures.