The Immortal’s Biograph And The Construction Of Caverns Of Heaven And Place Of Blessing

Since the system called Caverns of heaven and place of blessing came into being,it includes a number of famous mountains and great rivers within the territory ofChina. They are not only fairylands on earth that Taoists aspire to, but also idealplaces to achieve self-cultivation. The system of Caverns of heaven and place ofblessing has been growing in the development course of Taoism. During this courseof history, it has been affected by both ancestors’natural worship and the ancientChinese myth. It’s a fundamental consensus from numerous researchers, but itbecomes a conventional thinking in the process of development. It led someresearchers to talk about thoughts origin of cave, and use some forceful terms, suchas Mountain worship, Reproduction worship, Cave worship and the like. Theyoverlooked Taoists constructed Caverns of heaven and place of blessing with thetheory of MingShan which DiXian as the core. Ge Hong wrote The Immortal’sBiograph as the supplement of Baopuzi Nei Pian。The novel drawn its materials fromTaoist scriptures、A hundred schools of though and Fairy tales that very popular atthe time. The Immortal’s Biograph has a place at the history of literature and Taoism.It was not only recording to eighty-four immortals’anecdotes from Remote ages toWei and Jin Dynasty, but also containing rich knowledge of Taoist health preserving.To discuss Ge Hong’s contribution to Caverns of heaven and place of blessing, Wemust talk about two concepts: DiXian and MingShan. The theory of DiXian originatesin a theory of Sanshi from Scripture of the Great Peace. DiXian is a fairy who living onearth. The word “into MingShan become DiXian” from GeHong has dual nature:fairy living in the mountains and mountainsa is a right place to practice. The theory ofDiXian is the theoretical basis of construction Caverns of heaven and place of blessing.MingShan is the embryo of Caverns of heaven and place of blessing. The relationshipof DiXian and MingShan is equal to the relationship between connotation and forms.They promote the development of Caverns of heaven and place of blessing.