Brief introduction of Sanqing Tianzun

Also known as "Jade Qing Yuan Shi Tian Zun". In the "Three Clearances", it is the most respected and the first deity among Taoist immortals. Jade Qing is the deity, also called the primitive king. It was only in the Jin Dynasty that the Covenant of the Buddha at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty appeared among the Taoist gods. According to Taoist records, the earliest name of "Yuan Shi" appeared in Jin's Book in Pillow. According to records, before chaos opened, there was an essence of heaven and earth, named "the king of the Yuan Dynasty", swimming in it. After the second ceremony, the king of the Yuan Dynasty lived on the heavenly heart, inhaled the weather and drank underground spring water. After several disasters, she became intimate with the jade girl in Taiyuan, and gave birth to the emperor, the Queen Mother of the West, the birthplace of the emperor and the Yellow Emperor. Later, she was born in Xihe, and Shennong was also of Miao descent. He also said: "The capital of Du Xuan is the Seven Treasures in the Jade Well, with three palaces, namely the Upper Palace, the Middle Palace and the Lower Palace. The real Pangu, the king of the Yuan Dynasty and his wife, the Virgin Mary, visited this palace. " At this time, there is only the name of the king of the Yuan Dynasty. It was not until the Southern Dynasties that Liang Tao Hongjing's "True Spirit Industry Map" began to have the title of "Yuan God". During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Taoist priests in the Sui Dynasty named Buddha "Le Jing Xin", indicating that Taoist believers believed in Buddhism from the beginning.

According to "The Mirror of Immortals in Past Dynasties", the Yuan God's "round light wears seventy-two colors", so the Yuan God enshrined in the Sanqing Hall of Taoism usually wears a sacred light and holds a red pill, or holds it left and right, symbolizing the "infinite realm" when "heaven and earth are not formed, chaos is not opened, and everything is not born" and "Yin and Yang when chaos is going on". For a long time, the Buddha in the early Yuan Dynasty has been deeply worshipped by emperors and sages, down to folk Buddhist men and women. Sanqing, one of the highest deities in Taoism, is known as "the Buddha of Lingbao in the land of Upper Muslims", also known as Taishang Avenue Jun or Lingbao Jun ... located in the second place in Sanqing. Lingbao Tianzun appeared among Taoist gods, but it appeared later than Yuanshi Tianzun in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, it was called the Avenue of Taiwanese businessmen, and in the Song Dynasty, it was called Lingbao Tianzun or Lingbao Jun. According to Seven Stars Cloud and Zhendong Zhen Jing, Lingbao Tianzun is "the essence of jade morning, the purple smoke of the ninth celebration, the light of jade, the beauty of gold, the beauty of flowers, the beauty of buds, the birth of mothers and the cultivation of people." "Lingbaolue" said that "Taishang Avenue gentleman was born in Xibi country in the first year of Emperor Kaiyuan, pregnant with the family of Hong, and born on the side of Yuedanxuan, the jade tea floating mountain in his country, with the name of Qidu and the word Kaiyuan. It's been a long time, but it's enlightening the truth, sitting under the withered mulberry, thinking about it for a hundred days, and giving Lingbao ten wonderful scriptures of the great multiplication. " According to the "Cave Xuan Ben Jing", Lingbao Tianzun lived with the world by the method of Lingbao. Since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, as for the first year of Chiming, after the robbery of 990 billion yuan, people are like dust and sand, which is immeasurable. If you meet someone who is destined to learn, please ask me questions, and Lingbao Tianzun will not hesitate to teach you. There are thirty-six changes in Buddhism and seventy-two changes. If people want to see it, they should respond with affection and can be in two places at once.

In the Sanqing Hall of Taoist Temple, Lingbao Buddha often occupies the left position of Yuanshi Buddha with the wishful image in his hand, holding Tai Chi map or Jade Ruyi. In the large-scale fasting ceremony of Taoism, there are also many Sanqing gods, and Lingbao Tianzun is on the left of Yuanshi Tianzun. Lingbao Buddha's birthday is the solstice in summer, about the middle of May in the lunar calendar. Folk worship from summer to the sun often takes Lingbao Tianzun as the main god. That is, the old gentleman on the throne, the Taoist god and the leader. It's the third in Sanqing. Also known as "mixing the old gentleman", "giving birth to Buddha" and "Taiqing Emperor". In the "Sanqing Hall" of Taoist Temple, its statue occupies a positive position, holding a fan, which is Laozi. Taoism respected Laozi as its leader from the time it was founded, but its position was the lowest during the Sanqing period, so it was later that Laozi became Sanqing. On the occasion of Emperor Hanming and Zhang Di in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (58 ~ 88), Axe King, the magistrate of Yizhou, wrote the poem "Monument to the Virgin of Laozi": "Laozi is a Taoist. Born before the invisible, started before the beginning, walked in the yuan, floated in the six emptiness, went in and out of the nether world, and watched the difference between miscellaneous and unclear. " Deify Laozi into a god of nature, on an equal footing with Tao. During the period of Shun Di (126 ~ 144), Zhang Ling founded Wudou Mi Dao in Hemingshan, Bashu, with Laozi as the leader. By the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the name of Taishang Laojun was obvious. In the Tang dynasty, the prestige of the old gentleman was even stronger. He is not only regarded as the ancestor of Li Tang dynasty, but also helped Tang Gaozu Tang gaozu to pacify the world. It is said that when Wu Zetian usurped the Li Tang Dynasty, she once appeared in front of the world, saying that "Wuhou was not revolutionary" and "he had to change his surname". ..... The marquis of Wu is also afraid of this, and he dare not establish Wu Sansibo. Therefore, during the Tianbao period, Xuanzong finally honored him as "the Great Sage Dengjinque Xuanyuan Emperor". Song Dazhong (10 13) added the symbol "Tai Shang Lao Jun mixed Yuan Shangdi" in August of the sixth year of Xiangfu.