Does the Nine Heavens Goddess Mother have any disciples?

Phoenix is ??the Jiutian Xuannv in ancient mythology. Legend has it that she is a goddess with boundless power. Because of her meritorious service in eradicating violence and bringing peace to the people, the Jade Emperor conferred upon her the titles of Nine Heavenly Profound Girl and Nine Heavenly Holy Mother. Although her status in folk beliefs is not prominent, she is a god of justice, and her image often appears in classical novels, becoming a fairy who helps heroes eradicate evil and violence. Therefore, her status among Taoist gods is Also very important. She has two incarnations, namely the Golden Phoenix Fairy and the Qingluan Boy. The Golden Phoenix Fairy serves the goddess of creation, Nuwa Empress, in the Thirty-three Outer Heavens, and the Qingluan Boy guards the entrance to Nuwa Palace. The Phoenix merges into one, which is called the Nine Heavens Xuannv, also known as the Nine Heavens Holy Mother. In the chaotic (sun) world of the universe, I hold the phoenix nirvana necklace and the phoenix pan Zhupei.

The original image of Jiutian Xuannv is a black bird. "The Book of Songs·Ode to Shang·Xuanniao" says: "The mysterious bird of destiny came down and gave birth to Shang. It lived in Yin and the earth was awning. The ancient emperor ordered Wu Tang to control the four directions. This is a poem by the descendants of Yin and Shang to worship their ancestors. It means It is said that Emperor Tian ordered Xuanniao to give birth to Qi, the ancestor of Shang, and established the powerful Shang Dynasty. The emperor's second concubine. The three of them were bathing when they saw a mysterious bird dropping its eggs. Jian Di took them and swallowed them, and they became pregnant. The contract was long and Zuo Yu was successful in controlling floods. He was granted the title of Shang and given the surname Zi. "Also according to the "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals·Yin Chu" records: "There are two missing daughters of the Lu family. They make ninety percent of the platform, and they must use drums for food and drink. The emperor ordered Yan to look at it, and the sound sounded like a narrow pass. The two daughters loved it. After fighting, cover it with a jade basket, select few, and look at it. The swallow leaves two eggs, flies north, and does not return. Gao You of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote: "Emperor is Heaven." Destiny dropped an egg to the You'o family and swallowed it to create a contract. "Qi, pronounced as crumb (xie, also as wedge). Legend has it that he is the ancestor of Shang and the son of Emperor Ku. It is said that the Shang clan has a blood relationship with the black bird, which should be closely related to the Shang clan's worship of the black bird totem. As early as the Sui Dynasty Before the dynasty, there was a book called "The Yellow Emperor Asked Xuannv about the Art of War", which recorded in detail the story of Xuannv helping Huangdi defeat Chi You. Going a step further, she became a half-human, half-animal goddess who rescued people in distress and taught them the art of war.

According to the records in "Historical Records·Yin Benji" and "Lu Shi Chunqiu·Yinchu", the Nine Heavens Holy Mother was born according to the destiny of heaven. Under the deed, Tang Yu was granted the title of Situ, and was granted the title of Chengtang in the 13th generation. She was a disciple of the Holy Mother Yuanjun of Xiling, and was also the military advisor of the Yellow Emperor. Her "Book of Heaven" military strategy can be regarded as the first outstanding female military strategist in ancient China.

Legend has it that in ancient times, the Yellow Emperor and Chi (Yin Chi) fought fiercely in Zhuolu (today's Zhuolu, Hebei Province). County) was defeated after nine battles. Chi You's attack was so violent that it caused heavy fog for three days and three nights, making it difficult for the soldiers to see the sky and the direction of the mountains and rivers, trapping the Yellow Emperor under Mount Tai. After the battle, the troops retreated to Mount Tai. At night, the Holy Mother of the West Ling fell into a trance and fell asleep. The messenger was given a talisman by the black fox and said: "Tai Yi is in front and Tian Yi is behind. The one who wins will win." , war will lead to defeat. "The talisman given by Our Lady of Xiling is "three inches wide and one foot long, with green jade as jade and elixir blood as writing. " After the talisman teaching was completed, the Holy Mother of Xiling ordered her disciple Jiutian Xuannv to teach the Yellow Emperor "the strategy of Yin and Yang of the three palaces and five meanings, the technique of Taiyi Dunjia Liuren step fighting, the mechanism of Yin talisman, and the text of five victory of Lingbao's five talismans". In order to defeat Chi You, Jiutian Xuannv made eighty-sided Kui (Yinkui) cowhide drums for the Yellow Emperor, and then gave the Yellow Emperor plans and swords for war preparation.

According to "Shan Hai". The Great Wilderness Eastern Classic records: Kui Niu is a mythical beast in ancient times. It was born in Liubo Mountain in the East China Sea in ancient times. "It looks like an ox, is pale in color and has no horns. It can walk on one foot. When it comes in and out of water, it is exposed to wind and rain. Its gaze is like the sun and moon." The sound is like thunder, and his name is Kui. Huang Di killed him, took his skin and made a drum out of it, and the sound could be heard for five hundred miles. "The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon" records: "When the Yellow Emperor attacked Chiyou, Xuannv made an eighty-sided cowhide drum for the emperor. It shook for 500 miles at one time and 3,800 miles in a row." "Jiutian Xuannv ordered the sergeant to kill Kui Niu to make eighty war drums, so that Huangdi, with the help of Jiutian Xuannv, led his troops to fight Chi You in Central Hebei. After the Yellow Emperor set up the "Qimen Dunjia" formation, he ordered the sergeant to use thunder The bone of the beast struck the giant eighty-sided Kui cowhide drum. The sound of the drum was loud. One blow shook five hundred miles, and consecutive blows shook three thousand eight miles. The whole battlefield was shaken, the sky and the earth were spinning, and the shouts of killing Chongxiao Han were heard. , so that Chiyou's soldiers were fascinated, rushed to kill Yuanmen, and were defeated like a mountain. "Chiyou's bronze head eats stones", that is, he uses stones as food and can "fly in the air to take risks." But in the sound of the Kui Niu drum, "Nine strikes stopped him, especially since he couldn't move away, so he killed him."

"After that, the Yellow Emperor killed Yu Zi again in Banquan (southeast of today's Zhuolu County, Hebei Province). After this bloody battle, the world was finally settled.

It is said that "Qimen Dunjia" first had four One thousand three hundred and twenty games were gradually reduced to one thousand,080 games, seventy-two games, and later only eighteen games according to the records of Volume 56 of "Taiping Guangji". "Books from the Sky" are all related to the Nine Heavens Xuannv's rule of chaos and peace in the country. According to the legends of the past dynasties, whenever the world was turning from chaos to order, sometimes it was taught by the Nine Heavens Xuannv herself, and sometimes it was taught by a Taoist master. For example, during the Warring States Period, Sun Bin Obtained three volumes of the Book of Heaven from Guiguzi, the Eight Escape Methods, and the Liujia Lingwen

In "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is said that when Zhuge Liang led his troops into Sichuan, he once led his troops to collect rocks near Linshan. On the beach of Yubupu on the Yangtze River, stone formations were laid out, called the Eight Formations; Zhuge Liang followed Qimen Dunjia's rules: Xiu, Sheng, Shang, Du, Jing, Death, Jing, Kai. "The formation was set up. The formation repeated eight gates, changing every day and every hour. At dusk, when Lu Xun, the governor of Soochow, visited the formation and accidentally entered the gate of death in the eight formations, there was a strong wind in an instant, flying sand and rocks, covering the sky and the earth, and strange rocks. Ah, Chaya is like a sword, with sand and earth standing across it, overlapping like mountains. The sound of the river surges like the sound of swords and drums, which can be compared to the strength of a hundred thousand elite soldiers. When Lu Xun, the governor of Eastern Wu, was so shocked that he had no way to advance or retreat, he shouted: "I am in the middle of the river." Zhuge’s plan! " On this occasion, Zhuge Liang's old father-in-law, Huang Chengyan, did good deeds and came to the gate to lead the way. Otherwise, he would have been trapped and died in the Eight Formations. Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, had a poem about it: "His contribution covers three parts of the country, and it is called the Eight Formations. Picture, the stone in the river will not turn, and the regret will be swallowed by Wu. ”

It is said that Xue Rengui sent troops to conquer Goryeo and received five treasures, namely the white tiger whip, the water fire robe, the sky-shattering bow, the cloud-penetrating arrow, and the wordless heavenly script, which were awarded by the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady, thus leading to a great victory in the Eastern Campaign. In "Water Margin" In "The Biography", it is said that Song Jiang was chased by the leaders of Jiangzhou Dutou and fled to an ancient temple in Huandao Village. He hid in the divine chef. After being searched several times, he escaped with the help of the gods. A boy in green introduced him to Jiutian Xuan. The daughter, the Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens, taught Song Jiang three volumes of the Heavenly Book and said: "Song Star Master, I will pass on to you the three volumes of the Heavenly Book. You can act on behalf of Heaven, be loyal and righteous for the Lord, serve the ministers, assist the country and the people, get rid of evil and return to the right path, and don't forget and don't let it slip." "It is said that before Liu Bowen came out of the mountain, he also obtained four volumes of the Heavenly Book in the cave of Luoshan in Chuzhou. Later, he used the Heavenly Book to assist Zhu Yuanzhang in conquering the world, and he was the first in the world. The legend about the Nine-Heaven Virgin in history is mysterious and mysterious. She has cast a mystery on Chinese men and women.

After Han Emperor Gaozu defeated Xiang Yu and established the Han Dynasty, he encountered trouble when building the capital: Xianyang, the ancient capital, and Afang Palace of the Qin Dynasty were burned down by Xiang Yu, and Liu Bang had to choose another capital. He sent the alchemist Zhang Tiangang to handle the details. Zhang Tiangang first selected Bailuyuan, which is adjacent to the Jingshui River on the right and the Wei River on the left. It has thousands of miles of fertile land and roads leading to the eight poles. It is a good place to build a capital. On the day of construction, the earth suddenly shook, the sky collapsed, and Bailuyuan suddenly turned into a vast ocean. In the crisis, Zhang Tiangang called for the efficacious Nine Heavens Mystery Girl to come to rescue. He saw a colorful auspicious cloud falling from the western sky, and the Nine Heavens Mystery Girl came to rescue. Sprinkling a handful of pure soil into Bailuyuan, Bailuyuan was immediately restored to its original state, and countless migrant workers were saved. Jiutian Xuannv told Zhang Tiangang: There was a giant whale under Bailuyuan, and it was not suitable to build a capital here. Zhang Tiangang had to choose another location according to Xuan's plan. Following the woman's advice, Chang'an was finally chosen as the capital. He drilled forty-nine boreholes according to various directions and distances. When he drilled the last central borehole, it automatically collapsed and turned into an unfathomable abyss. In a large cave, Zhang Tiangang hurriedly begged Jiutian Xuannv to come to rescue him. Xuannv came on a cloud and told him that there was a giant dragon in the cave. He asked Zhang Tiangang to send warriors into the cave to tie up the dragon, and cast the bell tower with iron plates. The Nine Heavens Xuannv then used a pure bottle to flip the bell tower upside down to suppress the dragon forever. From then on, the capital construction project progressed smoothly, and a majestic new building was built. The capital was quickly completed.

"Dragon Fish River Map" says: "Before the Yellow Emperor took over, there were eighty-one Chiyou brothers, with animal bodies and human voices, bronze heads and iron foreheads, and they ate sand and stones. The soldiers armed with swords, halberds and crossbows were powerful in the world. ...Huang Emperor was benevolent and righteous and could not restrain Chi You, so he was defeated and looked up to the sky and sighed. Heaven sent Xuannv to give the Yellow Emperor the magical talisman of military faith and subdue Chiyou. "Also said: "When the emperor attacked Chiyou, he was sleeping with the Queen Mother of the West. She sent a Taoist priest, who was covered by Xuanhu's fur and gave him a talisman, saying: 'Taiyi is in front, Tianyi is behind, and when the river comes out, the talisman will be conquered in battle. Huangdi Huan... set up an altar to offer sacrifices to Etilao. A black turtle came out of the water with a talisman in his hand, placed it in the altar and left. The Yellow Emperor again paid homage to Jishou to receive the talisman, and saw that it was the talisman he had received in a dream. It is three inches wide and one foot wide. So the Yellow Emperor put it on as a sign of attack, and he immediately became a bird of prey for Chiyou. Later, there was a book called "The Yellow Emperor Asked Xuannv How to Fight", which interpreted the above story.

The "Old Tang Book·Jing Ji Zhi" contains three volumes of "The Yellow Emperor's Questions about Xuannv's Law" in the military category, and this book is the first to cover it. It may have come from the Southern and Northern Dynasties. There is a saying in it: "The Yellow Emperor and Chi You fought nine times and lost nine times. The Yellow Emperor returned to Taishan. For three days and three nights, the sky was foggy. There was a woman with a human head and the shape of a bird. The Yellow Emperor bowed his head and bowed again, but did not dare to get up. The woman said: "My daughter, what do you want to ask?" Huang Di said: "If you want to win every battle and hide yourself, where should you start?" "Then Dong Si Zhang of the Ming Dynasty" "Guang Bo Wu Zhi". Volume 9 of "Volume 9" quoted the article "Xuan Nu Art of War" and also recorded the above story. The text says: "Chi You transformed in many directions, commanding the wind, calling for rain, blowing smoke and spray, and Huang Di's teachers were greatly confused. The emperor returned to Taishan, where he fell into a sleepy state of sorrow. The Queen Mother sent an envoy to be given a talisman by the black fox's coat. The emperor's talisman was three inches wide, one foot long, green as jade, and inscribed with red blood. After the talisman was finished, the Queen Mother ordered a woman with a human head and a bird's body, and said to the emperor: "I am the Xuannv of the Nine Heavens." The emperor used the Yin and Yang strategy of the Three Palaces and Five Meanings, the Taiyi Dunjia Liuren step fighting technique, the Yin Talisman's mechanism, and the Five Spiritual Treasures and Five Victories to defeat Chiyou. After a few years, the Queen Mother sent an envoy Bai Huzhi. The god, riding a white deer, gathered in the emperor's court and gave him a map. "This article is much more advanced than "The Yellow Emperor Asked the Xuannv for War Techniques" and has more Taoist elements. It should have been published later, perhaps during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Du Guangting, a Taoist priest of the Five Dynasties in the late Tang Dynasty, synthesized the above information and wrote "The Biography of the Nine Heavens Xuannv", which was included in the "Yongcheng Collection of Immortals" Volume 6 (also included in the "Yun Ji Qi Zhuan" Volume 11 fourteen). The biography also mainly tells the story of Xuannv giving the talisman to the Yellow Emperor to defeat Chi You, but it clearly narrates Xuannv as a Taoist deity. The first sentence of the biography goes like this: "The Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens is the teacher of the Yellow Emperor and the disciple of the Holy Mother Yuanjun." Following the cloud: "The Queen Mother sent an envoy, wearing the fur of a mysterious fox, with a talisman to teach the emperor: 'Jingsi tells the sky , there must be a response from the Supreme Being. '" When Xuannv descended and the emperor paid her respects again, Xuannv said, "I have some doubts about the Supreme Being's teachings." When Huang Di asked for instructions on warfare. , "The Xuannv gave Emperor Liujia and Liuren the talisman of military faith, the five talismans of spiritual treasures, the book of envoys to ghosts and gods, the seal of the five mings to control demons and spirits," etc., so "Chiyou was destroyed in the wilderness of Juebei, the hometown of Zhongji, and divided into "Du Guangting's "Yongcheng Collection of Immortals" says that the Yellow Emperor and Chi You fought in Zhuolu, and Chi You practiced magic. There was a heavy fog for three days, and both the inside and outside were confused. The Yellow Emperor could not win, so he set up a place in Taishan. Later, the Queen Mother of the West sent an envoy to teach him the talisman, and told him to pray to heaven with his soul, and the Supreme Being would surely respond. A few days later, Xuannv rode on a red phoenix, controlled by a Jinglong, and wore nine-colored emerald clothes, and arrived at Huangdi's house. He was awarded the Talisman of Liujia and Liuren Soldiers' Faith, the Book of Envoys to Envoy Ghosts and Gods, the Seal of Demon Controlling and Channeling, the Nine Lights Jade Festival and the Ten Ultimate Spiritual Flags Sword of Life for Demons, etc. Huangdi led the princes to fight Chiyou again, and then destroyed Chiyou in the wilderness of Juebei. He also used his magic to kill Yugang in the wilderness of Banquan, and pacified the world. Later, the Yellow Emperor cast a tripod at the foot of Jingshan Mountain and received the yellow dragon to welcome it into the heavenly palace. According to Taoism, the Yellow Emperor's military victory and immortality techniques were all taught by the Nine Heavens Xuannv. The Nine Heavens Xuannv was the Yellow Emperor's teacher and a disciple of the Holy Mother Yuanjun. In later generations, there were writings handed down by people called Xuannv of the Yellow Emperor, the contents of which were either the art of war or the art of yin and yang.

The 41st chapter of "Water Margin" "Huandao Village Receives Three Volumes of Heavenly Book, Song Gongming Encounters Jiutian Xuannv" tells that when Song Jiang was chased by officers and soldiers, he hid in the Jiutian Xuannv Temple and was captured by Jiutian Xuannv. He was rescued by a woman and gave him three volumes of military literature.