Continuing your life begins with cultivating immortality

He thought it was the best thing in the world, and every time he came back from playing, he would silently recite it in his heart for the fifth and sixth times.

He looked forward to playing twenty or thirty times soon, and then he would be able to go around and say, "I can play tennis!" just as people in the old days when they ate meat and said, "I eat meat!" and say, "I can play tennis!"

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people who come here to play are weirdos, and I don't know if they become weirdos because they love them, or if they love them because they are weirdos.

Pretending to be forced and god-chanting are their standard equipment.

Later, pretending to be forced and Shenkan turned into drinking and bathing.

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The cultivation of immortals originated from the immortal thought for the purpose of immortality in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was one of the five ancient metaphysical arts (mountain, medicine, life, divination, and physiognomy).

Among them, the mountain refers to the immortals, and there are nine main ways to cultivate immortals: health preservation, bait, valley, foundation, Xuandian, boxing, charms, Danding, and secrets.

Unlike modern people's cultivation of immortals, the ancients never felt that it was false or false in the matter of cultivating immortals, but took it all seriously.

In Chinese history, there were many emperors who ascended to heaven because of taking pills, and there were several in the Tang Dynasty alone

Tang Xianzong was poisoned by pills and could not go to court for several months

Tang Muzong died of poisoning at the age of 30 after taking pills;

After Tang Wuzong took the pill, the poisonous fever was unbearable, he was moody, and he couldn't speak for dozens of days before he died;

After Tang Xuanzong took the pill, he had an abscess ...... on his back

In fact, behind these stories of immortal cultivation in pursuit of immortality and self-liberation is a complete set of imaginative spiritual comfort systems based on Taoism.

Especially in the Tang Dynasty, Taoism flourished, and Taoism had absorbed the Buddhist concept of reincarnation, cause and effect, and the Confucian idea of loyalty and filial piety in the previous generation.

By the time of the Yuan Dynasty, the rulers basically formed a situation in which Confucianism ruled the world, and religiously "Taoism is the main life, and Buddhism is the main death".

In the people, it is even more scattered, and the Taoist priests of various sects provide a set of mysterious beliefs and spiritual comfort services for the local people after absorbing the customs and customs of various places.

This system has continued for thousands of years and has become the spiritual core of martial arts novels and immortal cultivation novels, because this concept also plays an important role in modern people.

In particular, the point of "Taoist master student" can be said to be very consistent with the pursuit of modern people.

Because of modern people's scientific cognition, their yearning for the afterlife has gradually decreased, and they have turned to seek the meaning of living in the world.

Because no matter how many millennia have passed, the various pressures faced and suffered by human beings have never been alleviated.

So what is as addictive as the novel of cultivating immortals, there is also a real escape in real life - a real version of Taoist cultivation of immortals.

The mild ones have a week-long Bigu-style immortal cultivation (not eating or only eating specific food), and the heavy ones have the post-90s immortal cultivators who go to Zhongnan Mountain as soon as they graduate.

Rather endure harsh living conditions in the mountains for many years, "I don't want to go home, I don't want to go to work." "

What's even more interesting is that everyone can be an immortal cultivator, as long as you love to stay up late!

In today's social media, "staying up late" has become synonymous with "cultivating immortals", and people who often stay up late can complete layers of cultivation through the points of sleeping late.

In fact, who really likes to stay up late, it's nothing more than their own time has been squeezed pitifully.

"Staying up late to cultivate immortals" is like the ancients who swallowed the five stones and danced with their eyebrows, which is not only a kind of self-deprecation, but also a portrayal.

This kind of unhappy life while being happy in the middle of the night is the most appropriate metaphor for modern life.

Whether it's Bigu, going up to Nanshan or staying up late, it's usually considered an escape.

In today's society, it has a somewhat derogatory connotation.

The most obvious reason for this is that people believe that they can only survive in this environment after recognizing the true face of the environment in which they live.