Zuo Ci (AD 156-AD 289, to be verified), the character Yuan Fang, the late Eastern Han Dynasty Fangshi. Zuo Ci practiced painstakingly, Shaoming Five Classics, and through Xingwei, is to learn Taoism, especially Ming Liujia, can serve ghosts and gods, and sit in the kitchen. There is a story in the world that Zuo Ci played with the princes, became famous for his magic, and accepted Ge Xuan as an apprentice. According to legend, Zuo Ci told Ge Xiangong that he was going to enter Huoshan to refine the Nine Zhuan Dan, and finally became an immortal and left.
Biography of the characterPainstaking practiceZuo Ci, Mr. Wujiao, a famous monk in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, lived in Tianzhu Mountain and studied the art of alchemy. The Book of the Later Han says that he rarely had Shintoism. According to Ge Hong's "Hug Puzi Jindan Chapter", Zuo Ci is Ge Xuan's teacher. It is said that there are three volumes of the Taiqing Dan Sutra, as well as one volume each of the Jiuding Dan Sutra and the Golden Liquid Dan Sutra. Cao Zhi said in his "Arguments on the Dao" that he was good at intercourse. According to relevant historical records, after sixty or seventy years of cultivation, he became an immortal after death. Ge Hong's "Legend of the Immortals" also said that he was able to enslave the ghosts and gods (understanding the heavenly and earthly branches), and would change and open up valleys.
Accession to the WTO in the early yearsZuo Ci, the character Yuanfang, is a native of Lujiang County. He was very powerful when he was young, and he once attended Cao Cao's banquet, Cao Cao smiled and looked around at the guests and said, "Today's VIP gathering, the delicacies of the mountains and seas are roughly complete. All that's missing is minced fish made of sea bass in the Songjiang River in Wu Guo. Zuo Ci said: "It's easy to get. So he asked for a brass plate filled with water. Fish with a bamboo pole and bait on a plate. After a while, a sea bass was caught. Cao Cao applauded warmly, and everyone at the banquet was amazed. Cao Cao said, "One fish cannot be eaten by all the guests at the banquet, but two are good." Zuo Ci fished again, and after a while, he fished out another one, which was more than three feet long like the previous one, and it was very fresh and lovely. Cao Cao himself stepped forward and made it into minced fish and gave it to everyone at the banquet to eat. Cao Cao said: "Now that I have got sea bass, it is a pity that there is no ginger from Shu as a condiment." Zuo Ci said: "It's also easy. Cao Cao was afraid that he would buy it nearby, so he said, "I have sent someone to Shu to buy brocade in the past, and you can order someone to tell me to delegate someone to buy more than two ends (four zhang for one end)." Zuo Ci left, and came back after a while, got ginger, and said to Cao Cao: "I have seen the man you sent in the shop that sells brocade, and I have ordered him to buy two more ends." Later, more than a year later, the people appointed by Cao Cao came back and bought more two-end brocades. Cao Cao asked him, and he said, "On a certain day in the past month, I met a man in the shop, and he conveyed your order to me. Cao Cao went out to the suburbs to play: there were more than 100 scholars accompanying him. Zuo Ci sent a bottle of wine. A piece of dried meat, pour the wine bottle with your own hands, and toast to everyone, there is no one who is not full and drunk. Cao Cao felt strange and sent someone to find out the reason. I visited the liquor shop and it turned out that all their liquor and dried meat were lost yesterday. Cao Cao was furious and secretly planned to kill Zuo Ci. Once, Zuo Ci was at Cao Cao's banquet, and Cao Cao was about to arrest him, but he retreated into the wall and suddenly disappeared. Cao Cao offered a reward for his arrest. Someone saw him in the bazaar, and when they were about to capture him, the people in the bazaar were exactly the same as Zuo Ci, and they didn't know which one was Zuo Ci. Later, someone met Zuo Ci on the top of Yangcheng Mountain in Henan Province, and chased him again, and he fled into the flock. Cao Cao knew that he couldn't catch Zuo Ci, so he ordered his subordinates to go to the flock and tell Zuo Ci: "Cao Gong won't kill you anymore, it turns out that it's just to try your Taoism." Now that I've got the verification, I just want to meet you. Suddenly, an old ram bent the knees of his forelegs, stood like a man, and said, "Why are you in such a hurry?" The people immediately said, "This sheep is Zuo Ci." So they ran to catch it, but the hundreds of sheep became rams, and they all bent up their knees on their forelegs, and stood like men, saying, "Why do you want to be in such a hurry?" So people don't know which sheep to catch. Lao Tzu said, "The reason why I have great calamity is because I have a body." When I have no body, what evil will I have? "A person like Lao Tzu can be said to be able to treat the body as a thing, but compared with Zuo Ci, isn't it far behind?
Wander aroundSome people say that they saw Zuo Ci in Jingzhou, and Liu Biao, who was the assassin of Jingzhou at that time, also thought that Zuo Ci was a demon who confused people's hearts, and planned to catch and kill him. Liu Biao came out with soldiers and horses to show off, Zuo Ci knew that Liu Biao wanted to see what Taoist skills he had, so he slowly walked up to Liu Biao and said, "I have some meager gifts that I want to reward your army." Liu Biao said: "You are a Taoist priest alone, and I have so many people, can you afford it?" Zuo Ci said it again, and Liu Biao sent someone to see what the gift was, and saw that there was only a bucket of wine and a small piece of dried meat, but ten people did not lift it. Zuo Ci brought the dried meat himself, cut the meat piece by piece to the ground, and asked a hundred people to bring wine and dried meat and distribute them to the soldiers. Three glasses of wine and one piece of jerky for each soldier. The jerky tasted the same as usual, and more than 10,000 soldiers were full of food and drink, but there was no shortage of wine in the wine vessel, and the jerky was not eaten up, and Liu Biao's more than 1,000 guests were also drunk. Liu Biao was taken aback and dispelled the intention of killing Zuo Ci. Retired in his later yearsSun Ce killed the Taoist priest Yu Ji, Zuo Ci visited Sun Ce, and Sun Ce also wanted to kill Zuo Ci. Sun Ce once wanted to stab him from behind. Zuo Ci walked slowly in wooden shoes and holding a bamboo cane, and Sun Ce chased after him with a weapon but couldn't catch up, so he knew that Zuo Ci had Taoist skills and didn't dare to kill him again. Later, Zuo Ci told Ge Xiangong that he was going to enter Huoshan to refine the Nine Zhuan Dan, and finally became an immortal and left. 
Zuo Ci plays Cao CaoZuo Ci is proficient in the Five Classics, Xiaofang Zhongshu, and also knows astrology, from the astrological signs, the Han Dynasty's qi will be exhausted, the national fortune will decline, and the world will be in chaos, so he sighed and said: "In this troubled world, it is more difficult for those with high official positions to protect themselves, and those with more money are more likely to die." Therefore, the glory and wealth of the world must not be coveted! So Zuo Ci began to learn the Tao, and he was also very proficient in "Qimen Dunjia", able to drive ghosts and gods, and conjure delicious food while sitting. Zuo Ci practiced hard refining Taoism in Tianzhu Mountain, and obtained a "Jiudan Golden Liquid Sutra" ("Dunjia Heavenly Book" in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms) in a stone cave, and learned the magic that made him change, the Gu Technique, and many spells could not be remembered. After Cao Cao heard about it at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he summoned Zuo Ci, locked him in a stone house, sent people to monitor him, and did not give him food for a year. Cao Cao thinks that there is no reason for people in the world not to eat, and Zuo Ci actually didn't eat for a year, it must be a demonic side, and he had to kill him. Cao Cao's idea of killing Zuo Ci together, Zuo Ci knew, so he asked Cao Cao to spare him an old life and let him go home. Cao Cao said, "Why are you in such a hurry to go? Zuo Ci said, "You want to kill me, so I beg you to let me go." Cao Cao said, "How could I kill you." Since you have noble aspirations, I will not force you to keep you. Cao Cao set up a banquet for Zuo Ci, and Zuo Ci said: "I'm going to travel far away, and I ask to share a drink with you." Cao Cao agreed. At that time, the weather was very cold, and the wine was soaking in the fire, Zuo Ci pulled out the hairpin on his head and stirred the wine, and in a moment the hairpin was dissolved in the wine, just like the ink dissolved in water when grinding ink. At the beginning, Cao Cao saw Zuo Ci asking for a "glass of wine", thinking that he was drinking half a cup first and then giving Zuo Ci the remaining half of his own cup, but he didn't expect Zuo Ci to use a hairpin to draw his wine glass, and the wine glass was divided into two halves, There was wine in both halves, several inches apart. Zuo Ci drank half of it first, and gave the other half of the cup to Cao Cao. Cao Cao was not very happy, and he didn't drink it right away, so Zuo Ci asked Cao Cao to come over and drink it himself. After drinking, the cup was thrown on the beam, and the cup shook in the air, like a bird about to swoop to the ground. After inquiring, he said that Zuo Ci had returned to his own residence, and this time Cao Cao wanted to kill Zuo Ci even more, and wanted to see if Zuo Ci could [5] escape death. Cao Cao ordered Zuo Ci to be arrested, and later someone who knew Zuo Ci's whereabouts secretly told Cao Cao, and Cao Cao sent someone to arrest him, and he was caught as soon as he was caught. In fact, it wasn't that Zuo Ci couldn't escape, but that he deliberately wanted to show Cao Cao his change technique. So Zuo Ci asked his captors to tie him up and throw him into prison. The warden planned to torture Zuo Ci, but found that there was a Zuo Ci in the house and a Zuo Ci outside the house, and I don't know which one was the real Zuo Ci. When Cao Cao found out, he held even more resentment, so he ordered Zuo Ci to be tied up and killed. Zuo Ci suddenly disappeared from the execution ground. So he ordered the city gates to be closed and a large number of arrests were made. Some searchers said that they didn't know Zuo Ci, so they told that Zuo Ci was blind in one eye, wearing a cyan Gebu shirt and a Gebu turban, and he would arrest such a person when he saw him. After a while, the people of the whole city became blind and wore green kudzu cloth and tied a scarf, and no one could tell which one was Zuo Ci. Cao Cao ordered the scope of the search to be expanded, and as long as it was caught, it was killed. Later, someone saw Zuo Ci, so he killed and dedicated it to Cao Cao, Cao Cao was overjoyed, and the corpse was transported to see that it was a bundle of thatch, and then went to the place where Zuo Ci was killed to find the body, which was gone. 