In the history of our country, many religious figures have been worshiped as gods, and there will be sacrificial activities on their birthdays. In this issue of Traditional Festivals, we will take you to learn about the twenty-eighth day of the first lunar month: It’s the birthday of Zhenjun Xu Xun. Let’s find out about it together.
Xu Xun (239-374), courtesy name Jingzhi, was a famous Taoist priest in the Jin Dynasty. He was a native of Yitangpo, Changding Township, Nanchang (now part of Jiangxi), and was originally from Ruyang (now Xuchang, Henan). One of the four great heavenly masters of Taoism, the founder of Zhengyi Jingming Sect, the "Loyal and Filial God", commonly known as "Xu Zhenjun".
"The Biography of the Twelve True Monarchs": "Xu Zhenjun has a poor name and a courtesy name. He is a native of Runan. Zu Yan and Fu Su were the founders of the world." "The Origin of the Three Religions Search God on the Second Day of the First Month "18: Complete Birthday of Zhenjun Xu Xun" contains: "Xu Zhenjun was born on the 28th of the first month of the second year of Wu Chiwu (239). His mother first dreamed that a golden phoenix fell into her arms and she was pregnant." According to "Yunji Qizhuan": "A young man took hunting as his occupation. One day he went into the mountains to shoot a deer. The deer was aborted, and the mother deer licked its calf and died. Xu Xun felt sad, folded his crossbow and returned home, where he began to live in the gold of Tuoxi Mountain. He practiced Taoism in his house. "He was well versed in classics and history, and had written books on astronomy, geography, calendars, and prophecies about the five elements. He was especially fond of immortal training. He studied under the famous Taoist priest Wu Meng and was known as the True Lord of Dadong.
The twenty-eighth day of the first lunar month: the birthday of Zhenjun Xu Xun. In the first year of Jin Taikang (280), Xu Xun was promoted to Xiaolian at the age of 42. He also issued the Jingyang Order to govern the government with integrity and thrift, and to serve the people. He was so impressed that people at that time were impressed by his virtues and built a shrine to honor his image, so later generations called him Xu Jingyang. Later, when he saw that the Jin Dynasty was about to be in chaos, he abandoned his official position and returned eastward, traveling around the world in search of the best way. He once said that he had met a sage who taught him the "Purifying Method of the Supreme Spiritual Treasure" and the method of killing dragons and capturing monsters. Legend has it that he once suppressed dragons and killed snakes to eliminate harm for the people. His Taoism was superb and his voice was widely heard, and many people asked him to become his disciples. In the fourth year of Emperor Yuan's Daxing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (321), Xu Xun lived in seclusion at the old site of Meixian Temple in the southern suburbs of Nanchang, and founded a Taoist temple named Taiji Temple, with the title "Jingming Zhenjing" on his forehead, and established the Jingming Taoist sect. Its purpose is "Pure Ming, Loyalty and Filial Piety". Legend has it that Xu Xun lived to be 136 years old, and in the second year of Ningkang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (374), his family ascended to immortality from the Xishan Mountain in Yuzhang.
The twenty-eighth day of the first lunar month: the birthday of Zhenjun Xu Xun. In the third year of Dazhong Xiangfu in the Northern Song Dynasty (1010), the Nanchang Xishan Touring Temple, which he built in seclusion, was upgraded to a palace. In the second year of Zhenghe (1112) of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, he was posthumously named the "Shen Gong Miaoji Zhenjun" and was awarded the "Yulong Wanshou Palace" (commonly known as the Xishan Wanshou Palace). During the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, it is said that He Zhengong, a Taoist priest from the Yulong Wanshou Palace in Xishan, prayed to Xu Zhenjun to come and save the war. As a result, he received the "Flying Immortal's Scripture of Saving People" and "Jingming, Loyalty and Filial Piety" and so on. Liu Yu, a Taoist priest of the Yuan Dynasty, used "Jingming" as the name of his sect, regarded "Jingming Zhongxiao Complete Book" as the main classic, and respected Xu Xun as the ancestor of the sect. The altar of this sect is called "Jingming Zongtan".
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