1. In the tenth year of Qi Yongming (492), 37-year-old Tao Hongjing resigned, hanged himself in Shenwumen, lived in seclusion in Qushan (now Maoshan) in Jurong, Jiangsu Province, and then moved to Jinji Dongjian, where he devoted himself to alchemy and became a monk, and founded Maoshan Taoism. He also traveled to many famous mountains and visited fairy medicine, and named himself "Huayang recluse" and became a famous Taoist figure.
2. The history books say that Tao Hongjing had different exercises when he was young, and he was a good book when he was four or five years old. "Always use a pen as a pen, and the book is gray." At the age of nine, I began to read Confucian classics such as The Book of Rites, Shangshu, Zhouyi, Chunqiu and The Analects of Confucius. Ten-year-old Ge Hong's Biography of Immortals says, "Only by studying day and night can you have the ambition to keep fit." And the dragon, "Ming Xiu, with long eyebrows and sparse eyes", "read more than 10,000 volumes, I don't know anything, I think this is a deep shame".
3. Dow was born as a world famous doctor, and both his grandfather and father studied medical skills and knew martial arts. He was smart since he was a child. He read Ge Hong's Biography of Immortals at the age of ten and was deeply influenced. At the age of thirty-six, he resigned and lived in seclusion in Maoshan, Jurong, and traveled all over the famous mountains to seek fairy medicine. At that time, he was deeply trusted by Liang Wudi Xiao Yan. Although Liang Wudi gave him an official position many times, Liang Wudi had to consult him about state affairs, so people gave him the title of "Prime Minister in the Mountain".
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1, Tao Hongjing has in-depth research on medicine, alchemy, astronomy, geography, military science, sword-casting, Confucian classics, literature and art, Taoist rituals, etc. , the greatest contribution to pharmacology, related to alchemy.
Hongjing's life is legendary. He speaks highly of Ge Hong's works, and his experience is similar to Ge Hong's. Compendium of Materia Medica has written an important page in the history of medical development in China. Many innovations and developments are the great contributions of hardworking, intelligent and knowledgeable sages of traditional Chinese medicine, and also become precious materials for us to learn, learn from and study. He writes in black, some in red. So future generations have a "herbal deficit."
3. Tao Hongjing was obsessed with Taoist "Immortality" all his life, but it was rare. However, Tao Hongjing is knowledgeable, proficient in astronomical calendar, mountain geography, medicine, chess, piano, calligraphy and painting, and even the Yin and Yang elements, and has made certain contributions to ancient science and technology, such as medicine, alchemy, astronomy, geography, biology and mathematics.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Tao Hongjing