Brief introduction of Tao Hongjing

Tao Hongjing: (AD 456-536), with bright characters, was born in Liling, Danyang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) in the Southern Dynasties and lived in seclusion in Huayang. A famous physician, alchemist and writer, he is called "Prime Minister in the Mountain". He is the author of Notes on Materia Medica, Collected Prescriptions of Then and Huang Bai, The Picture of Two Cows, Collected Pottery of Huayang in Seclusion, etc.

Tao Hongjing's life spanned the three generations of Song, Qi and Liang, and his experience was complicated. Although Liang Wudi was very kind to him, Heather also had the reputation of "Prime Minister in the Mountain". However, during the Southern Liang Dynasty, Tao Hongjing, as a representative of Maoshan Taoism, was forced to travel far. Finally, as a master of Taoist Puritanism, he came to Ashoka Tower in Jixian County, where he took an oath and practiced Buddhism and Taoism. It is this that avoids the death of the new Shi Tian Dao. I like Kou Qianzhi.

After Tao Hongjing was forced to be ordained, he told his painful mental journey under the pretext of mourning for Shen Yue. Su Dongpo's regret for life is the same at all times, and a man as broad as Tao Hongjing is no exception. Tao Hongjing's Gong Cao Li Xing Shu is particularly wonderful. He has some research on calendars, geography and medicine.

The ancient Shennong Classic of Materia Medica was compiled, and the new drugs used by famous doctors in Wei and Jin Dynasties were supplemented, which became a seven-volume Notes on Materia Medica, containing 730 kinds of drugs, and the drugs were classified according to jade, vegetation, insects, livestock, fruits, vegetables and rice for the first time, which had a certain impact on the development of materia medica (the original book was lost, and now the remnant volumes are found in Dunhuang).

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There are seventy or eighty kinds of Tao Hongjing's works. Cherish more and die. Up to now, there are patents, too mysterious international classics and Taoist articles, new career maps, real Tibetan art, elbow-back side, herbal notes, Tao's reclusive herbal medicine, medical general surgery, health care guide, nourishing and longevity record, etc. And Tian Wenxing's Calculations, Emperor's Calendar, and Huayang Tao's Hermitage Collection; He also compiled a genealogy of Taoist immortals.

The first genealogy of Taoist immortals compiled by Tao Hongjing is called Bitmap of True Spirits, which includes gods, secular gods, ghosts and many immortals, with about 3,000 people, arranged in seven grades.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia Tao Hongjing