As usual, I will post onel translations from Tao Zan Jing Hua to let you have deeper understanding about Taoism. This translation is basically about why Xiao Tianshi put this article into his Tao Zang Jing Hua and why this article is such so important for readers to study and learn.
Finally, hope everyone enjoys this as usual! ^^
Xiao said on the preface of Nan Bei He Can Fa Ya:
First, this book uses different chapters from Tong Yi Qi Si Zhong. The book has four chapters and was original published by Zun De Tang in Kui Mo year during Guang Xu period. The first chapter is about basic theory of three major philosophies in ancient China. The second chapter is about the difference between South and North faction of Taoism. The third chapter includes ten poems which express the goods inside Taoism. The Fourth chapter has several unorganized Taoist articles and poems. The book has a hundred thousand words and it talks about the integration of South and North faction of Taoism.
Second, the original writer of the book is Fang Nei San Ren from Nan Chang. He integrated not only Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism together, but also South and North faction of Taoism. He tried his entire life to research Taoism from details to details and tried to exclude cult parts from Taoism. Mr Fang Nei was weak and sick when he was very young. But he kept study Taoism continuously. He studied Taoism ten years like the first day he started, and he also was an expert in Zhou Yi Lian Luo Guan Chong and Fu Nei Dian dan Jing. After he finished his research, he started to search classic copy of Taoism and he found Xiong Zhan An‘s Zhen Chuan Mi Lu. He became a true expert in North faction of Taoism after that. Based on Mr Fang Nei’s true intelligent and hardworking and a little bit luck, he meets oen of the masters of Taoism and became an expert in South faction of Taoism at last. After he learned from both South and North faction of Taoism, he continuously worked hard and became well-known among Taoist academia. And that’s why all the words from the book is come from some experts’ Zhen Jue and reader should not ignore those parts.
Third, this book use fundamental theories from all Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Although all three philosophies have different theories, they all came from the same sources. People, who only see the difference of three philosophies, are always stupid and trouble markers. And that’s why we delete and re-organized several chapters and renames chapter two to help readers understand the importance of this part.
Forth, although this book has another name called Tong Yi Qi Si Zhong, the only importance in this book is only about the South and North faction of Taoism. All four chapters practice this theory, and these chapters all have excellent inference and logistic. And that is why we use the name Nan Bei He Can Fa Ya insted of Tong Yi Qi Si Zhong and put it at beginning of the book.
Fifth, the original copy of this book has a chapter about ten poems in Taoism, and we delete that chapter from this edition. People who want to see the complete version of this book may wait for another day when we re-publish this book.
Sixth, the original chapter four contains several unorganized Taoist articles. And the essence of this part cannot be described either by writer or editor or teachers, we hope readers could read it carefully and patiently.
Seventh, the original copy of the book also has a chapter about how to do ceremony in Taoism, and we thought it is not related with the book. We deleted this chapter and hope one day we will publish this chapter as an individual book.
Eighth, there is chapter called You Kun Xiu Yu, and we already put this chapter into the book “Nv Gong Zhen Fa Ji Yao.” Other parts of the book we do not included will no longer discuss here and hope reader could understand ours’ decision!
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