The Study On The "Five Zang And Six Fu Gods" Of The Shangqing Of Taoism In The Six Dynasties

As a subsystem of the system of the shenshen,the "five Zang and six Fu gods" of the Shangqing of Taoism played an important role in the meditating on the cultivation of the shenshen.The academic research on the shenshen of the Shangqing of Taoism in the six dynasties mainly focused on the studies the meditation mechanism of the Shangqing,which are based on the classical texts of the Shangqing Da Dong Zhen Jing and the Huangting Jing,and payed less attention to the shenshen itself and the origin of the shenshen before the six dynasties.This article is divided into four chapters to study "five Zang and six Fu gods" of the Shangqing of Taoism in the six dynasties.The first chapter combed the origin of the concept of the shenshen in the pre-Qin Dynasty,the Qin and Han Dynasties,the Wei and Jin dynasties,and drew the conclusion what,before the establishment of the Shangqing,the concept of the shenshen developed from the ideas of body in the pre-Qin Dynasty to the body health thought in the Qin and Han dynasties,and then to the concept of the shenshen in the the Wei and Jin dynasties.In its development process,the Fang Xian Taoists in China played an important role.They constantly absorbed and reformed the ideas of predecessors,then created the concept of the shenshen in the Wei and Jin dynasties.In addition,at the beginning of the second chapter of this paper combed the evolution of "five Zang and six Fu gods" on this basis.The second and third chapters mainly focused on the scriptures of Shangqing of the six dynasties involving the "five Zang and the six Fu gods",which are included in the Zhong Hua Dao Zang.This paper made a comprehensive combing and research on the "five Zang and six Fu gods" of the Shangqing of Taoism in the six dynasties,which based on the date of the scriptures of Shangqing of the six dynasties as determined in the Zhong Hua Dao Zang and the Chinese Taoism big dictionary,and on the source,quantitative change and image characteristics of "five Zang and six Fu gods".Through the study,it is concluded that in the process of meditating the shenshen,the Shangqing was aware of the importance of the five viscera and six organs in the human body just like the predecessors.On the basis of the previous content of nourishing the spirit,especially in the two scripturalactivities of the Eastern Jin Dynasty,the contents of the source,image and quantity of the "five Zang and six Fu gods" were constantly improved and increased,which formed the Shangqing's unique,rich and comprehensive method of meditating and nourishing the shenshen to immortals.The fourth chapter,which based on the development of the "five Zang and six Fu gods" of the Shangqing in the six dynasties,and combined with the existing research results on the completion time of the ancient scriptures of Shangqing in the six dynasties,rearranged the scriptures of the Shangqing involving the "five Zang and six Fu gods" in the six dynasties.It is expected to provide a relatively clear development of the scriptures of the Shangqing for the future study of the development of the Shangqing in the six dynasties and the reference of the shenshen system of Taoism in traditional Chinese medicine.