The Shocking and Extraordinary Romance of the Great Sage

《The Legend of Zhang Guolao in

"Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" is also known as the seventh volume (volume) of"The Legend of Encountering Immortals in the World""The Legend of Zhang Guolao" in"Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" Summary of content (background): The Tang Dynasty was one of the prosperous dynasties, which lasted for Nearly three hundred years (AD 618-907). The Zhenguan reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty and Li Shimin's reign was the most glorious era in ancient history...Princess Wencheng entered Tibet and concluded the Sino-Tibetan reconciliation...Xuan Zang, commonly known as Chen Yi, also known as Tang Monk, was not afraid of hardships and dangers in order to retrieve the scriptures. There are many myths and stories such as the Great Sage Monkey King and Sun Wukong... Wu Zetian changed the Tang Dynasty to Zhou Dynasty, and she became the only female emperor in ancient times... The prosperity of the Yuan Dynasty became the turning point from the prosperity to the decline of the Tang Dynasty... Since the Anshi Rebellion, the people have suffered. Yang Guifei (Yang Yuhuan) hanged herself and An Lushan was the culprit, which directly severely damaged the vitality of the Tang Empire... The feudal towns were separated, and the Tang Dynasty accelerated its division and destruction... The Huangchao Uprising was a heroic peasant uprising that promoted the historical process....

In the Tang Dynasty, many poets, literati, philosophers, and inventors such as Li Bai, Du Fu, and Bai Juyi emerged.………………

Lao Tzu is the founder of Taoism. He was born in the Spring and Autumn Period and founded the Tao Te Ching. Taoism was founded by Zhang Daoling in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. With the help of Laozi's"Tao", it gradually formed a religion: Taoism.

Zhang Guolao is an outstanding Taoist practitioner, writer, and health care expert.…………

Legend has it that Zhang Guolao, whose original name was Zhang Guo, really existed in ancient times. According to myths and legends, he was born in the late Sui Dynasty and experienced three hundred years of the Tang Dynasty. He was an immortal who lived until the Southern Song Dynasty and was one of the eight immortals in the"Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea". Zhang Guolao rode his donkey upside down and left the world, and many wonderful and touching stories happened.……………………

(1) Filial piety comes first in everything. Chapter 1: Begin to practice filial piety at the age of six.

Filial piety comes first in everything, and evil will not take over.

In the suburbs of Luoyang, there is a family that has been passed down as a model of filial piety. The owner's surname is Bei, Beningsong, and his wife is Lu. The couple has reached middle age, in their early thirties, and they are filial to their parents and will take care of themselves until the end of their lives. He has two sons and one daughter: Bei Zonglu, Bei Zongxiang and daughter Bei Zongxian. Half of the Bei family makes a living by farming and the other half does small business. They live in poverty and harmony.

Money is like dung, but filial piety is worth a thousand pieces of gold. There are many people in the world who do not recognize their biological parents. All prodigal children are unfilial, unfilial, and unfilial, and they do not recognize their relatives. Which one of them will end up with a broken family, scattered wives and children, and a loss of property?

It is said that Bei Zonglu, the eldest son of the Bei family, was the governor at the age of six and respected his parents at the age of seven. Once, his father was so tired that he fell asleep leaning against the wall in the wheat yard. A black snake with a thick wrist was about to bite his father. Before he could call his mother, he hurriedly stepped forward and stepped on the snake. The black snake did not bite the Benin pine, but bit the eldest son's calf. Bei Zonglu endured the pain and did not let go. He was afraid that if he let go, the snake would bite his father again, so he yelled"Dad - Daddy" several times. When Benningsong woke up and saw this, he pinched the snake's neck with one hand, within seven inches, until it was crushed to death.

Mrs. Lu rushed over, and together with Benin Song, they quickly squeezed out the poisonous blood from her son and tied his upper leg with a thin rope, but the poisonous blood failed to flow up. They applied snake medicine to the wound and took oral snake medicine, and then the wound was cured. From beginning to end, the eldest son Bei Zonglu could not hold back a groan no matter how painful it was.

Filial piety is passed down from generation to generation in the Bei family, and is taught by example and example from generation to generation. Therefore, Bei Zonglu, a seven-year-old boy, has followed the example of filial piety from his parents to his grandfather and grandmother. He behaves filial piety in every aspect and practices filial piety every day. When Bei Zonglu saw a mosquito bite his parents, he would stand by them and stretch out his hand to swat the mosquitoes. I slapped them more often, one at a time, so accurately that almost none of the mosquitoes escaped and flew away.

Bei Zonglu is growing up day by day, and his two younger siblings Bei Zongxiang and Bei Zongxian are still very young. The eldest child is twelve years old, and he follows his mother's example in taking care of the younger siblings, feeding, bathing, eating, drinking and doing chores, all in a very responsible manner. Every night, I wash the toilet for my parents; every morning, I lift the toilet to empty the urine. Work in the fields during the day, get up early and come back late.

The two younger siblings are growing taller day by day. Bei Zongxiang started paying filial piety a year earlier than his eldest brother. During the Chinese New Year, I went to visit my third aunt's house. My mother took him alone. My father was ill and stayed at home with his brother and sister. After the feast, fruits are served. Bei Zongxiang was very young, but he thought that his father was sick and had not come to eat, so he secretly took a melon and hid it while no one was paying attention. He took off his coat and wrapped the melon tightly. It was the fourteenth day of the Lunar New Year, and it was extremely cold. Relatives all found it strange and puzzled why he took off his cotton-padded clothes in such a cold weather. Later, his mother found out that she could not tolerate her second son stealing a melon after eating it, so she scolded him in public for stealing property and beat him with a stick.

When the uncle, aunt, and other relatives saw him, they quickly took away the stick and stopped him from beating his son during the New Year. When asked about the reason, they found out that at a young age, Bei Zongxiang thought that his father did not come to dinner and was ill at home. As a filial piety, the son secretly hid the melon and took it home for his father to eat. Instead of scorning and scolding him, there was a lot of discussion, and everyone praised Bei Zongxiang, who was only six years old, for his filial piety. Before leaving, my uncle forced her to give her a basket of delicious fruits and snacks, and told Mrs. Lu that this was to fulfill her nephew Bei Zongxiang's filial piety.