Collation And Annotation Of Veritable Facts Concerning The True Lord Investigator Of The Taiping Xingguo Temple On Mount Lu

Mount Lu is a religious place, which Buddhism is the most prosperous, andTaoism color is also relatively concentrated. As early as in The Three Kingdoms, theTaoist activities had emerged. Since then, Janeji Guan, Kangwang Guan, Lingxi Guan,Taiping Xingguo Temple and so on were created in succession. And Lao tze, Kuangsu, Lu dongbin, the True Lord Investigator and so on were also constantly enriched infairy spectrum of Mount Lu. However, in the Tang and Song dynasties, TaipingXingguo Temple and the True Lord Investigator were the most famous.Taiping Xingguo Temple of Mount Lu was built in Kaiyuan nineteen years (731)of Tang dynasty. The original name was “Jiutian Shizhe Temple”. In the FiveDynasties, the dominator changed its name was “Tongxuan Fu”. In the period ofTaiping Xingguo of the Northern Song dynasty, the emperor Taizong of Song dynastyrenamed its name “Taiping Xingguo Guan". Since then, the temple received theofficial name. In1124, the emperor Huizong upgraded it to Palace. After the disasterof Jingkang, although the palace was burned seriously, it revived quickly. But into theYuan dynasty, its status droped day by day.The True Lord Investigator’s primal name was “Jiutian Shizhe Temple”.In1081,it upgraded “Yingyuan Baoyun True Lord”. In1240, it upgraded “Yingyuan BaoyunMiaohua True Lord”. In1261, it upgraded “Yingyuan Baoyun Miaohua Zhushun TrueLord” again. But with the falling of Taiping Xingguo Temple and burned down manytimes, and Xu True Lord belief was widely spread in Jiangxi province, the faith of theTrue Lord Investigator was replaced by Xu True Lord.This article is based on the compilation of Veritable Facts Concerning the TrueLord Investigator of the Taiping Xingguo Temple on Mount Lu as the core. And usingthe methods of historical literature on punctuating and emendating relevant historicaldata. And on this basis, to absorb the previous research results as well as discuss thevalue of Veritable Facts Concerning the True Lord Investigator of the TaipingXingguo Temple on Mount Lu. In addition, making some research about it.The master copy of Veritable Facts Concerning the True Lord Investigator of theTaiping Xingguo Temple on Mount Lu is Zangwai Daoshu, which was published by Bashu publishing house in1994and photocopied by Hanfen house. And its checkedin edition was Daozang, which was published by Cultural relics publishing house,Shanghai bookstore and Tianjin ancient books press in1988and photocopied byHanfen house. And the compilation of historical materials mainly come from theofficial history, Chi house, private paper. The master copy is Zhonghua BookCompany, the Commercial Press, Sanlian bookstore, Shanghai ancient bookspublishing house, Taipei written press and so on..