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Liu Haichan, one of the five northern ancestors of the Taoist Quanzhen School. The god of wealth believed by the Han people. The name is Zongcheng, the number is sea toad, and the word is far away. Five generations of Yanshan (now Wanping, southwest of Beijing) people. In Liao Yingju, Zhongjia Kejinshi, the fifth generation of Yan Lord Liu Shouguang, the official to the prime minister. The study of life is good, advocating the way of Huang Lao. First met Zhengyangzi pointed, resigned to seek the way, and then met Lu Chunyang, awarded Dan Dao, since then, Liu Hai to Zhong Liquan, Lu Dongbin as a teacher, follow them to escape in Xi'an City, Hu County, Zhongnan Mountain, Shijing Town, Aguquan Happy Valley, now Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, Hu County, Qubao Village, Yuchantai, there are Tang Dynasty built Liu Hai Temple and Laozi Gua Niu Tai Ruins, there is Liu Hai Toad poem ancient monument in the Great Chongyang Wanshou Palace-"Shifang Chongyang Wanshou Palace".
There are legends about bangs, all over the place, and bangs are always seen as the god of mercy. The "Bang Hai Drama Golden Toad" that circulates in Changde folk originates from the loyal love story of Liu Hai and Hu Xiuying. The two scripts of the Hunan Flower Drum Opera "Liu Hai Drama Jin Toad" and "Liu Hai Chopping Wood", which are sung all over the north and south of the motherland, are based on this allusion.
There are many ancient wells in the ancient city of Changde, and the famous ones are four-eyed wells, loofah wells, sunflower wells, etc. The loofah well is located at the intersection of Wentiao Lane and Loofahwell Lane of Panchi Street in the city. Legend has it that there is an image of a loofah in the well water, and the image of a loofah also appears in containers such as buckets and wooden basins taken from the well, hence the name. Looking at the well, the diameter of the wellhead is more than five feet, the depth is about three zhang more, the upper mouth is small, the lower abdomen is large, it seems that the cylinder is upside down, the well water is clear, the winter is warm and the summer is cool, and the drought is inexhaustible for a long time. The loofah well has a long history, and it is impossible to verify the specific era in which it was built.
Legend has it that there is a golden toad in the loofah well in Changde City, often spit out a white light from the mouth of the well at night, straight to the sky, and people with the Tao can ascend to heaven by this white light. Liu Hai, a young man who lives next to the well, is poor and kind, and his mother is filialHe often went to the nearby mountains to cut firewood, sell firewood to buy rice, and live with his mother. One day, there was a fox in the mountains and forests who cultivated and transformed into a beautiful and handsome girl, Hu Xiuying, blocking Liu Hai's way back and asking to marry her. After marriage, Hu Xiuying wanted to help her bangs ascend to the sky, spit out a white bead in her mouth, let her bangs be bait, and fished in the loofah well. The golden toad bit and fished, and Liu Hai took advantage of the situation to ride on the toad's back, jumped over, and feathered and ascended to the immortal. In order to commemorate the filial piety of Liu Hai, the descendants built the Toad Spring Temple next to the loofah well, and offered the statue of the god of Liu Hai. [1]
According to the research of Mr. Zhou Xinguo in Changde, Hunan Province, "Wuling Treasures", Liu Hai plays Jin Toad, and the character prototype comes from Houliang Yanshan. Later Liang Yanshan has a scholar surnamed Liu Xuanying, whose original name is Cao, the number is Haichan, and the word Zongcheng. This person is good at talking about life and worships Huang Lao's learning. Legend has it that Liu Haichan met the immortals twice, the first time he met the "Zhengyang Patriarch" and the second time he met "Lu Zu". According to the record of "Immortal Tongjian": "When I first met the ancestor of Zhengyang, I was given the purpose of returning the gold liquid to the pill, and then abandoned the official learning. Later, when he met Lu Zu, he changed his name to Xuanying Sea Toad. Re-grant the essence of Jindan, escape to the south, and cultivate the truth. Some people say that he is the fourth ancestor of Taoism in the Northern Song Dynasty. From the Yuan Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, he was named "Mingwu Hongdao Zhenjun". Wu Zongshi was crowned as "Emperor Chunyou". Some ancient books say that he was a native of Later Liang Guangling (now Xixian County, Henan), and some say that he was a native of Later Liang Shaanxi. It is said that one day a Taoist who called himself "Zhenyangzi" came to visit and talked with him about the "Tao" of "two in one life, two in three, and three in all things". After Dancheng logged in to the immortal class and turned into a crane, he left. The Southern Sect of Taoism worshipped him as an ancestor. Zhengyang Daoist is Zhongli Patriarch. Lu Zu refers to Lu Dongbin. Lu Dongbin is one of the legendary Eight Immortals, known as "Pure Yangzi". Later, he met the "Zhengyangzi" Patriarch Zhong Liquan, Zhong Liquan gave him Dan Jue and took him to Zhongnan Mountain to cultivate. Lu Dongbin should be Liu Haichan's brother. Bangs play Jin Toad is also known as bangs play money or bangs sprinkle money. Later generations divided the name Liu Hai Toad into two: Liu Hai and Jin Toad. and perfunctory these two names as "bangs play golden toad".
The golden toad is a three-legged frog that was believed to be rich in ancient times. It means that wealth is prosperous, happiness and beauty. The Ming Dynasty scholar Xie Jin related couplets: the dragon does not groan, the tiger does not roar, the fish does not jump, the toad does not jump, and the bangs in the painting are killed with laughter. The car has no wheels, the horse has no saddle, the elephant has no tusks, the cannon has no smoke, and the general in the battle is suffocated. [2]
There are many folk carvings in Changde with the theme of "Bang Hai Playing with the Golden Toad", among which there is a bamboo carved pen holder that is quite distinctive (fig. 368). The pen holder is 14 meters high5 cm, caliber 93 cm, base diameter 91 cm, slightly flattened. On one side of the pen holder, the shoulder shawl is carved with the green relief technique, the barefoot fairy bangs are smiling, and the barefoot fairy bangs are waving a rope wearing copper coins, leaning over to tease a staggering and crawling three-legged golden toad. The knife work is concise, the layout is orderly, and it is very vivid and expressive. The other side of the pen holder is engraved with the word "Lu" of an ancient official Fenglu. Four lines of Yin script are engraved under it: "Not for profit, clean to serve the public." "The paragraph is signed "has been old, Yuting", and there is a single-frame square seal "Zhao". This pen holder should have been made in the eighth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1869).
Regarding Liu Hai playing Jin Toad, in addition to the love story, there is another layer of meaning, which people do not know very well. According to the research of Mr. Zhou Xinguo, a member of the China Collectors Association and a collector in Changde, Hunan Province, "The Complete Biography of Liexian" Volume 7 Slightly Cloud: Liu Xuanying, the number of sea toads, the first name Cao, and Liu Shouguang as the phase. One day, suddenly a Taoist came to say, asking for ten chicken eggs, ten pieces of money, and put a few on a few of them, and tired ten eggs in the form of money if the floating map (tower). The sea toad was surprised and said, "Dangerous!."The Taoist said: "People live in the field of glory and glory, and the place of sorrow is more dangerous than this." "The sea toad is enlightened, and he escapes at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, Dancheng, the autopsy, and there is white gas from the top door, turning into a crane, and flying into the sky. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Chu Ren won the first volume of "Five Episodes of Jian Gu": "Haichan's surname is Liu Mingyao, Bohai people, sixteen Dengjia Branch, Shijin, fifty to the phase." Retreating, there are two strangers sitting on the side of the road, and the people talk about the art of cultivating the truth. The two of them were silent, but they asked for money, ten chicken eggs, threw them on the case, and used chicken eggs to accumulate money, and looked at them and said: "It's dangerous." The two said, "The king's body is especially dangerous, why should he camp this egg?."'Then he realized Nayin, and entered the end of Nanshan to learn the Tao and become immortal. There are slight differences between the two accounts, but their basic meanings are the same.
Being in the officialdom and walking in a place of distress is the thinking of our predecessors. During the Kangxi period, the famous sculptor Wu Zhifan once carved the pen holder of "Bang Hai Play Golden Toad", which was inscribed with seven unique songs: "Who is forgetting worries and being at ease in the sky, playing Toad embraces Hui Convection Spring, Ketou is scattered to play nothing, and he is free all day long." He appreciates the "avoidance" attitude of the bangs. The author of this pen holder is the opposite. He believes that officials still need to be done by people, and the standard that should be pursued is "not for profit, but for public service". This is also the best way to get out of the "land of trouble". His views are a great inspiration for future generations. This pen holder was found in Changde, Hunan. Its appearance may be related to the "Hunan New Deal", which had a huge impact in the history of the late Qing Dynasty.
Patriarch Liu Haichan's Christmas is the tenth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year. Yuan Shizu named him "Sea Toad Mingwu Hongdao True Monarch". Yuan Wuzong was crowned as "Emperor of the Sea Toad, Mingwu, Hongdao, and Chunyou".