According to the Record of Jin Ping Mei collected by Taoist priests, he said, "Don't go to the seamounts in the east, go to the Bianliang in the south. Years are long, ambitions are high, teachings are too lacquered, and mysterious keys are realized. " After that, I went to the fishing places "Panxi" and "Longmen" in Jiang Ziya to practice hard.
In A.D. 1 190, Qiu Zu returned to Shandong to preach and teach, and was well received by the people, and his reputation grew day by day. In the third year of Jin Xingding (12 19), the inviters sent by Genghis Khan and the Southern Song Emperor arrived at the same time. In that case, what about going west to see Genghis Khan? Or go south to see the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty? Most people think that the Song Dynasty, from Mao to emperors, treated Taoism with courtesy and should go south. At the same time, they all think that Genghis Khan's army is fierce and rude, killing people without blinking an eye, unreasonable and possibly life-threatening. After careful analysis and speculation, Qiu Zu told the messenger: "When we see the emperor, we Taoist priests never bow down, but only take bows." (to see Genghis Khan). The following year, Qiu Zu decided to meet Genghis Khan and expressed his ambition with a poem: "Ten years of war, ten thousand people are worried about the country, and there is nothing left in a thousand miles." Last year, I was lucky enough to have a cold trip this spring. I'm too lazy to go three thousand miles north of Lingling, and I'm still studying in 200 states in Shandong. I am extremely poor, and I have to worry about early education. "He chose eighteen disciples to accompany him, set out from Dengzhou, arrived in Yanjing, and went west to Juyongguan, and began a three-year trek.
Qiu Zu, who is nearly eighty years old, preached metaphysics all the way. Three years later, they finally arrived at the snowy mountain marching camp in Afghanistan today (Genghis Khan had swept across Europe and Asia at that time). After they met, Qiu Zuxing held a boxing ceremony. Genghis Khan asked about the elixir of life. He replied, "I don't have any medicine to live forever, but I have a way to live long." It is important to stay healthy through abstinence. " Genghis Khan asked the way to govern the country. He said: "If you want to unify the world, you must care about not killing people, and you must respect the sky and love the people ..." Genghis Khan was so happy that he ordered it to be written down to educate future generations. Later, Genghis Khan presented the imperial edict (that is, the imperial edict stamped with the Great Khan seal) and the roller (that is, the token, just like the sword on it) to Qiu Zu, and put him in charge of the affairs of Taoism in the world.
Qiu Zu's Journey to the West was praised by later historians as "a word to stop killing" (that is, after Qiu Zu's ancestral teachings, Genghis Khan was deeply moved and immediately pardoned tens of thousands of prisoners and decided to quit the battlefield). Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty also wrote a pair of couplets specially for this purpose. "If you don't eat for life, you must seek the secret recipe, and you will know your merits when you stop killing."
Qiu Zu is the oldest traveler, diplomat, health care worker and poet in history. He spread and developed China culture, religion and medicine. At the same time, he is a geographer. He made a lot of detailed records of the local customs and foreign scenery along the way, and finally The Journey to the West was compiled by his disciple Li Zhichang. When he was a student, Qiu Zuyi preached and gave lectures to dispel doubts, and wrote many books, including Panxi Collection, Da Dan Zhi Zhi, Ming Dow Collection, On the Living News, The Original Purpose of Westward Journey, etc.