Sunday, November 18, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving!

First of all, I want to say happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Wish all of you have a great week coming and also don't forget there are lots of finals coming! >_<
As you known, I have started to translate English back to Chinese this week and I have to say this! It is great to feel like you are an expert in some another language rather than English! Haha~

Today I want to share a little story I heard from professor Valussi few days ago about an old Daoist scholar name Fu Jinquan and his interesting relationship with Xiao Tianshi.

We have already known when Xiao Tianshi worked for government in Sichuan provenience, he found lots of precious Taoist books in Qingchen mountain. And because of these books, he devoted the rest of his life in Taiwan to the publishing of Daoist books. Have you ever wondered why there are so many precious Taoist books there? And why Qingchen mountain became such an important place for Taoist people to practice? All of these things began from the Daoist scholar Fu Jinquan.

Fu Jinquan, also known as Ji Yi Zi, was bron in Xishan City, Jiangxi provenience. His biography was like a total mystery, and people cannot find enough information about him life. But what we have known is that he traveled to Sichuan provenience in the year 1817 and he stayed in Sichuan for 40 years. Fu Jinquan was a outstanding Taoist scholar at his time and he was an expert at practice Neidan and Yin-yang. During his 40 years in Sichuan, Fu Jinquan wrote down countless Taoist books including Ding Qi Song, Cai Jin Song, Xin Xue, Xin Ke Tao Shu Wu Pian Zhu, etc. The reason why Fu Jinquan wrote so many books at that time was because Fu deeply wanted to separate his knowledge about Taoism with other people and extremely hoped Taoism would not disappeared in the history of mankind. He built a Taoist temple in Qingchen mountian and started to store all the Taoist books he could collected. And all those collections finally went to Xiao Tianshi's hands after a hundreds year later and Xiao Tianshi trully finished Fu Jinquan's will to separate Taoist knowledge among world. 

Two people lived in two different era, depended on their dedication of Taoism, cross the barrier of time and space to completed their destiny of Taoism. What a wonderful story! ^^

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