2022-05-25Folklore Lu Dongbin

Legend has it that at the time of Lu Dongbin's birth, a strange fragrance filled the room, heavenly music floated in the air, and a white crane came down from the sky and flew into the tent and disappeared.

One Pillow of the Yellow Beam and the Immortal Knot

Lv Dongbin was smart and strong memory since childhood, and his words were very clear. During the Huichang period of the Tang Dynasty, he was ordered by his parents to go to Chang'an to take the examination. One day, in the Chang'an wine shop, only to see a feathered man in green and white robes, and marveled at the wall written on the three stanzas, poetic and ethereal, they went up to salute. The feathered scholar said, "You may first recite one of the stanzas, and I would like to observe your aspiration." Dongbin then took the pen and wrote: "Born in Confucianism meets peace, hanging tassel heavy stagnation cloth light. Who can compete for fame and fortune in the world, want to serve the Heavenly Emperor on the Jade Clearance." After seeing the poem, the feathered scholar said, "I am Mr. Yunfang, living in Zhongnan Heling, can you travel with me?" Dongbin did not promise.

Yunfang stayed with him in this store. Yunfang personally cooked for him, but Dongbin suddenly on the pillow sleep. He dreamed that he won the scholar's medal and became a high-ranking official, and married a rich daughter twice, and after the birth of his son and marriage, his children and grandchildren were full of rooms, hairpins and spinning, and so on for nearly 40 years, and then he became the prime minister, and he was in power for 10 years, and the power was scorching. However, inadvertently committed a felony, copied all the family funds, his wife was separated, and was stranded in the barren valley, all alone, poor and emaciated. Horses in the wind and snow, just hair long sigh, suddenly woke up, the rice in the pot has not been cooked. Yunfang laughed and said: "The yellow beam is still uncooked, a dream to Huaxu." Dongbin asked, "Do you know what I dreamed?" Yunfang said, "The dream you just had is a dream of a thousand states, a thousand honors and disgraces, but it is only a moment in 50 years. Gain is not enough to be happy, and loss is not enough to be sad. The world has to go through the so-called great enlightenment to realize that the human world is nothing but a big dream." Dongbin was so enlightened that he sought the advice of Yunfang as his teacher. (This is where the allusion to the proverbial "pillow of yellow beams" comes from).

Yunfang tested him and said, "Your bones are not yet perfect, so if you want to be immortal, you have to go through a few more lifetimes." Said fluttering away, Dongbin immediately abandoned Confucianism to go into hiding, along with him to the Crane Ridge.

Yunfang taught Dongbin all the secrets of Shangzhen. Soon after, Zheng Si Yuan of Qingxi and Shi Zhen Zhen Zhen of Taihua came from the southeast to Lingyun, and after exchanging greetings, they took their seats together. Real Shi asked, "Who is that standing aside?" Yunfang said, "It is the son of Lu Haizhou." Saying this, he ordered Dongbin to come forward to pay his respects to the Two Immortals. After the two immortals had gone, Yunfang said to Dongbin, "I am about to go on a pilgrimage to meet the Heavenly Emperor, and will then commend your merits and virtues, so that you will also be granted entry into the immortal register, and you should not stay here for a long time, and I will meet with you at the Dongting Lake in ten years' time." Saying this, he conferred the Spiritual Treasure Bi Fa and several pills of elixir on Dongbin. At this time, there were two immortals holding the golden simplicity and precious talisman in their hands and said to Yunfang, "The Heavenly Emperor has decreed that you are the selected immortal for the Nine Heavens Golden Que, and he wants you to get up and go at once." Yunfang said to Dongbin again, "I will go to the imperial decree to meet the Heavenly Emperor, you do well on earth, cultivate your merits and virtues, and you will be like me in his time." Dongbin bowed again and said, "My ambition is different from that of the gentleman, and it is necessary for me to fulfill all beings in the world before I wish to ascend." So Yunfang rode away on a cloud.

Without doing anything, the state policy

Jianlong two years (A.D. 961) spring of one day, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin is sitting in the Royal Court, suddenly saw a feathered fairy flying from the southeast, Song Taizu scrambled to get up to greet him, he bowed to the immortal to make way for the immortal, and asked the immortal from what place, the immortal replied: from the Mount Penglai. He also asked for the name of the immortal, and the immortal did not answer, but just drew two circles in the air with his hand.

The immortal said to Song Taizu, "Your Majesty is the God of Zhu Ling, can you still recall?" The word "God" was originally a Chinese word, but it was borrowed by the Western religions that came to China when translating the word. Song Taizu couldn't recall the events of his past life, so he didn't answer. The immortal said, "Your dynasty is going to be prosperous, and the world is going to be stabilized, so don't worry, but you should abstain from killing, and rule the country with nothingness and serenity, so that you can have long-lasting peace and stability."

Then Song Taizu ordered his attendants to leave, and then the immortal talked with Song Taizu for about an hour, and Taizu nodded his head all the time, and what the immortal said to Taizu belonged to the secret content, and Song Taizu did not spread it out. After the conversation, King Taejo called his attendants forward and ordered them to bring wine and fruits to entertain the immortal. The Immortal said that he would leave, and Song Taizu wanted to offer the Immortal a little something to show his respect and gratitude, so he hastily took off his jade belt and the red robe he was wearing and gave it to him as a gift, but the Immortal laughed and still did not accept it, and then floated away in the air.

After the immortal left, Taizu analyzed the two circles drawn by the immortal with his hand in the air, he suddenly realized that: these two circles and together, is not a "Lv" word? This immortal must be Lu Dongbin! He then ordered the artist to paint a portrait of Lv Xian and enshrined it on the Tai Qing Building.

Throughout the reign of the Song Dynasty, the people have always been relatively benevolent, and there was indeed no indiscriminate killing, and the speech was also very lenient. It seems that the Song Emperor was really following the immortal's will to abstain from killing, and to rule the country with no action and tranquility. The Song Dynasty has thus become a dynasty with an extremely developed economy and culture in history, and the two Songs of the North and the South combined, the Song Dynasty's national fortunes **** continued for 320 years, and is also a long-lived dynasty in history.

Devotional practice can become immortal

In ancient times, Qingcheng Mountain in Sichuan, a Taoist priest called Kuang Ruogu, looks beautiful, a good heart, to comply with the precepts are very strict. One day, a traveler who called himself "Bin Fa Shi" came to visit him, and the two of them had a very good talk at the first meeting. So, Kuang Ruogu kept him in the Taoist temple and stayed there.

Slowly Kuang Ruogu found that the master of the Bin magic power: he wrote the charm can often be blown up into dragons and snakes, clouds fly away; and the master of the Bin in the disposal of harmful ghosts and monsters and to recruit the heavenly soldiers and generals, but also to make the image of these other spatial beings to appear, and even make it and the people directly talk to each other; the casting of the law can be a foot stomping the ground is a ringing thunder, where the eyes to look at, where it is a lightning, a breath of air, and can be a good way to make a good use of the time. When casting spells, one can stomp the ground with one foot and it will be a loud thunder, and when one looks with one's eyes, it will be a lightning, and when one breathes, it will become a cloud. At the same time Bin Master is also good at painting, he painted without a brush, just mouth ink to paper or silk spray, there is a natural image of the mountains, flowers and trees, palaces, animals, people, and then slightly decorated, a vivid and beautiful picture will be completed. He finished painting to sell, sell paintings of money used to buy wine and Kuang Ruogu with the amount of big drink, Kuang Ruogu has always been a lot of alcohol, but but can not drink the Bin Master, often drunk.

Kuang Ruogu knows that the master must be very human, so has always respected, and did not ask about its origins. Until one day more than a month later, he really can not help it, then asked: "Mr. behavior is different, must be from the ranks of the immortals, right? Can you preach some sermons to me?" But Venerable Master Bing said, "You have a mole in the shape of the seven stars of the Big Dipper growing in the heart of your left foot, but there are only six of them, one is missing, and it cannot form a complete image of the seven stars; how can this make you a deity? You still need to cultivate for another lifetime before you can ah." Kuang Ruogu heard this and said in amazement, "You are really an immortal, Mr. Bin! I do have a mole in the shape of the Big Dipper under my left foot, only one is missing. I have never let anyone know about this!" Then asked how many years he could live, Master Bing wrote on the wall upside down "ninety-four" three words, and drew two circles together, and then said goodbye and left.

Kuang Ruogu seriously analyze to understand: the original two circles means a "Lv" word, which must be the "Master Bing" last name, so he realized: the original Master Bing is the Eight Immortals in the Lv Dongbin ah! From then on, he practiced more diligently and reverently, expecting to become an immortal in the next life. Later, Kuang Ruogu lived to be 94 years old and died, fulfilling the prophecy of Lu Dongbin.

The ability of the immortals to foresee is unparalleled by human beings, and it is a great fortune to meet with the gods.

The dissident said: "The world seeks to achieve success and fulfillment, and it is not certain that we will achieve the right result even if we have been practicing hard for a few generations. The suffering of the human world is really difficult to bear, so the ancient cultivation of immortals are numerous, the cultivation of the road is not fast!

Lu Zu Du people

One day, Lu Dongbin asked the master: "My master became the day of the road, now the more life?" The master said, "Counting the Han Dynasty four hundred and seventy-seven years, Jin Dynasty one hundred and fifty-seven years, Tang Dynasty two hundred and eighty-eight years, Song Dynasty three hundred and seventeen years, counting the counting should be one thousand years and one hundred years of age zero."

Lv Dongbin said: "Master counted the year one thousand one hundred years of age zero, how many several people?"

Master said: "Only you one."

Lu Dongbin said, "Why only one of us? It's just that I'm not a compassionate person in the Taoist school, and I have too few people to help. If you give me three years to do so, I will be able to fulfill more than 3,000 people in the Central Plains, will you be able to promote my Taoism?"

Master heard said, laughed: "You shut up! The world's living beings, unfaithful people, unfilial people wide. Not benevolent and unrighteous beings, how to do the immortal? I teach you to go three years, but find one to, is also you have merit." Lu Dongbin said: "only today to worship the master, disciple cloud travel to go." If Lv Zu downhill degree, three thousand people is not a small number, Lv Dongbin can be as desired?

Lv Dongbin carried his sword down the mountain, pressed down the clouds, and came to the world of red dust, looking for those who have the destiny to get the Tao. After traveling for a whole year, there was no trace of him. He was so impressed with the way the world had turned out that he had to be the first one to be able to do it. In the mountains have heard the master said, straight up to the top of the Taixu watch, green gas now, there is the Taoist immortals. To go to that uninhabited place, drinking sound, with the clouds until the top of the Taixu. Looking east and west, far from seeing a green gas rises in the sky. Lu Dongbin said, "Good! This place must be immortal." He rode the wind and clouds, and traveled to the place where the green gas appeared, not knowing where it was. He called the land to ask, and the land replied: There is a woman in the lower world of Henan Province in the city of Xijing, who is more than thirty years old and has never been married. She has been practicing the Way for many years and has accumulated a lot of yin fruits. This woman Tang Dynasty Yin Kaishan descendants, seven female body, so there is a green gas now.

Lu Dongbin fell off the clouds, turned into a pickle surging Taoist, straight into the city. To the Tongchi Lane entrance to see a Yin store, standing a woman, dressed in Taoist clothes, between the eyebrows of the green gas now. Lu Dongbin called "J head". The woman was talking to the clerk. Turned back and said: "Mr. Good." Dongbin went up to look, see the anger is too heavy, called "pity"! Inside his sleeve, he flicked down a piece of paper. There are four lines of poetry on it:

Out of the mountain wishing to degree three thousand, searching all over the Yanfu not bonded.

I'm really interested in coming here, but I'm sorry that Yin's bones are not immortal.

Not realizing that it is another year, in order to find the person who can be measured, Lu Dongbin a cloud until the Tokyo people do not go everywhere, fell off the cloud. If this kind of appearance, be recognized. Put the head a swing, drink sound change, change into a Mr. Pickle surging into the city. Let's see if the lizard has the destiny to degree? Dongbin to the altar to see, is a noble officer lieutenant (court court official senior military officer), good good FengZhenXiuDao. There was some green gas between his eyebrows. Lu Dongbin thought in his stomach: "This person's time has not yet come. Show some magical powers to transform him. If the initial mind does not retreat, he will be a success after a long time." Lu Dongbin ate the fast, said: "poor Tao good ink painting, a bowl of water, also do not use the pen, take the silk a splash, draw a landscape painting to thank you." People take a silk and Mr.. Mr. Wang ground the bowl of ink and splashed it on the silk, which spoiled the silk. Captain Wang saw this and said, "This man is impolite! He is teasing me! Bring it to me." When Lu Dongbin saw that the lieutenant was anxious, he turned around and left. When the people rushed to him, they saw him leaving in a gust of wind. But he saw a piece of white paper falling down. The people took the white paper and came to see the lieutenant.

When the lieutenant opened the paper, there were four sentences:

The Lenten Tao wants to seek the immortal bones, and I came to not know.

The name of the poor Taoist, but look at the end of the silk painting.

When the king took the silk and looked at it, it was a complete picture of the whole body of Lu Dongbin. Only then did he believe that the gentleman who came was an immortal, and he was too late to repent! Wang Taoliang reported to the court, the house will be returned to the court, the servants and family members are scattered, until the Wudang Mountain monk. Years later, he was collecting medicine in the mountain, and met Lu Dongbin, the Pure Yang, who was immortalized.

One day, Lv Dongbin dressed up as an oil seller, selling oil as a name, secretly thinking that if someone buys oil without asking for more, he will realize him. After a few years of selling oil in this way, all the customers he met were self-interested people with excessive demands. But there was only one old woman who bought as much oil as she wanted without asking for more. Lu Dongbin was very surprised and thought that there was still a person in the world who could be measured. So he asked the old woman, "Everyone who buys oil wants more, why are you the only one who doesn't want more?" The old woman said, "I am satisfied with just one pot of oil, and it is not easy for you to sell oil, so how dare you ask for more?" She rewarded Lu Dongbin with wine again.

Lu Dongbin had the intention to realize her, and found that there was a well in her courtyard, so he threw a few grains of rice into the well, and said to the old woman, "You can get rich by selling this well water." The old woman left him to sit a little longer, but he did not answer and went away. The old woman turned around to see that all the water in the well had turned into wine. The old woman followed Lu Dongbin's message and sold the well water for a year, and she became very rich.

One day, Lu Dongbin came to the old woman's house, and it happened that the old woman was not at home, only her son was at home. He asked his son, "How has the wine been selling in the past few years?" The son said, "It is good, but there is no wine lees to feed the pigs." After hearing his words, Lu Dongbin lamented, "The insatiable greed of the human heart has reached such a state." So he took the rice from the well and left the old woman's house. A short while later, the old woman returned home, her son told the old woman what had just happened, and the old woman went to the well to see that all the wine in the well had turned into water again. The old woman hurriedly chased after him, where the shadow of Lu Dongbin could still be seen.

The greed of people can be seen here, and the opportunity has been lost, where it can be obtained, pity!

Lv Dongbin once traveled south to Wuchang, saw the Tianxin Bridge, a variety of jugglers, lined up, very lively. He turned into an old man selling wooden combs, set up a stall to sell, all set out of the wooden comb, worn out, and the price is very high, surrounded by half a circle of people, said he was a madman. Lv Dongbin also do not care, suddenly looked up and saw the crowd after an old woman walked by, Lv Dongbin a greeting, she came over, Lv Dongbin picked up the comb to her hair, combing combing, sparse hair more and more dense, more and more combing the longer; the original frosty hair, more and more combing the more black, full of crepe face of the old woman, a time into a youthful young woman. The onlookers all hush and exclaim. Lu Dongbin blurted out: "she year crane hair chicken skin old woman, today jade face flower wild beast people". After saying this, he threw a mess of rotten combs into the river. People are looking into the river, Lu Dongbin and old woman but disappeared.

Degree of human difficulty and ease of the Master understand, weekday cultivation can not not be checked. It is not possible to generalize!

When Lu Dongbin traveled to Hanyang, he either gave alms on the streets or played in the countryside. He thought that if he met someone with a good heart, he would save him, but no one in the whole county had such a condition.

There was a tavern owned by Xin, and Lu Dongbin went there to drink without paying a penny. The Xin's never asked him for anything. He was not able to pay for his drink, and he never asked for money. One day Lu Dongbin went to drink again, and he said to the host, "I have owed you so many debts for wine, and I have not been able to repay them." Then he asked the host to fetch orange peel and draw a crane on the wall. And said, "Whenever a guest comes here to drink, you call to this crane, and it will dance by itself, and by this I will repay you, and within a few years you will be rich." The master left him to continue drinking, but he went away. Later, as long as people come to this tavern to drink, call the crane, the crane really flew down from the wall, dancing like a million, jumping back to the wall, everyone wondered, so people from near and far to watch, the tavern was packed, less than a few years, Xin's really rich.

One day Lu Dongbin came back. As soon as the owner saw him, he quickly thanked him and invited Lv Dongbin to drink. Lu Dongbin asked him, "Are there many people coming?" The master said, "There are more than enough." Lu Dongbin then played his flute three times, and the crane flew from the wall to Lu Dongbin, who straddled the crane and rode away in the air. The master was so amazed by this event that he built a building called Yellow Crane Tower in honor of Lv Dongbin's death by crane. Later, some people wrote poems on this building:

Previously, people had already taken the yellow crane to go,

this place is empty of the yellow crane building;

The yellow crane never returned,

the white clouds have been empty for thousands of years.

The sunny river is full of Hanyang trees,

The grass is luxuriant on the Parrot Island,

Where is the countryside at sunset?

The smoke and waves on the river make people sad.

Three years later, Lu Dongbin returned empty-handed, which shows that people's hearts are not ancient, and the world is difficult to realize. Lu Dongbin path on the final South Mountain to find the master, kneeling down and thought: degree of human affairs, although there are gains, but can not be shown in front of the master, had to do not say anything. Zhong Li master laughed, they know, said: "The disciple will lead the disciple to come? I do not know how many degrees?" Lu Dongbin ashamed to inform no degree of a person.

The alien said: the immortal no suffering everyone knows, a hundred suffering of human beings, to jump out of the sea of bitterness, nothing to shed can not be ah!

Lv Zu miracles

Whisking

Legend has it that there is a poor woman in a town in the ancient Hubei province of E City, has always suffered from paralysis, and every day, also crawling to the bridge begging.

One day, a Taoist priest passed by and asked about her, the poor woman replied, "My husband died, and there is an 80-year-old mother-in-law, every day to come here to ask for some money, rice to feed her mother-in-law." When the Taoist heard this, he handed over the duster and said, "Pull the duster and try to get up." The woman took the duster and stood up. He also said, "Try walking with me." The woman took a few steps, and her paralysis disappeared and she regained the ability to walk, so she thanked him and said, "Where do you live, sir? My mother-in-law and I will surely come to the door to thank you." The Taoist priest said, "I live upstairs in someone's house." When the woman returned home, her mother-in-law was amazed. When they asked why, they realized that they had met a man of God. The next day, they found the family upstairs, there is no Taoist priest, a look up, see Lu Dongbin portrait, and yesterday encountered the Taoist exactly the same, only to know is Lu Dongbin rescue, immediately bowed respectfully to thank you.

Covetousness

A rich merchant in ancient times, apparently admired Lu Dongbin very much, and burned incense to worship and pray every day and night, which was very pious, and the offerings were also clean. One day Lu Dongbin changed into a poor Taoist, take a piece of old robe, to the rich merchant pawnshop to quality when the money, the rich merchant to take a pinch of the robe, and found that there is a gold hairpin in the sleeve, the heart of the secret joy, thought the Taoist surely do not know which there is this valuable thing, it is silent, into the robe, a little to give a few money, the Taoist sent away. After the Taoist left, the rich merchant took out the hairpin to, but see attached a note, inscribed with a few lines: "Today remember, tomorrow remember, remember me to not know each other, hairpin left as incense money, from now on with you do not trade." Meaning: you so respect me on the surface, day after day looking forward to my coming, today I change to come, you not only do not recognize, but also fraud, this hairpin as a right to return your incense money for me, from now on do not want me to protect you. Merchants see the note, know a thought, and the fairy face to face missed, regret, but has no use.

Such a lot of things, can not be counted, but the practice of the people should not be so, once lost the immortal fate, and then I do not know how long!

Exterminating the Jiao Jing

The Eight Immortals can be said to be a household name in the folklore, they are good to fight, punish the evil and promote the good deeds are often praised. The story of Lu Dongbin's destruction of the Jiao Jing is an example.

Lv Dongbin got Han Zhongli on the real secret, the fire dragon real people and taught him the sword, so he traveled in the Jianghuai area. At that time, there are often a Jiao Jing infested Huai Shui, sometimes Jiao Jing make demonic thunderstorms, resulting in flooding and submerged houses; sometimes Jiao Jing ride the winds and waves, destroying the passenger boats; sometimes Jiao Jing change into a person, sexually promiscuous women, was destroyed by the woman that died of many diseases. The people suffered a lot. The government tried every possible means to expel the Jiao Jing, but could not succeed. The government has no choice but to publish a list, hoping that someone can subdue the auger spirit.

Lu Dongbin, who happened to be traveling here, said to the government, "I can get rid of this scaly spirit, so you don't have to worry about it." The prefectural government was overjoyed and immediately asked Lv Dongbin to perform the magic to get rid of the demon. See Lu Dongbin drew his sword and waved it, shouted, and threw it into the water, in a short while, the water was blood-red, and a big scullion floated on the surface of the water. His sword leaped into the sheath by itself, and the onlookers were amazed and asked him who he was. Lu Dongbin replied, "I am just a Taoist." The prefectural government wanted to reward him with gold and silk, but he declined. From then on, there was peace between Jianghuai.

Shaoxing Fragrant Cake

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a young man selling muffins at the bottom of Chenghuang Mountain by the West Lake in Hangzhou, a Shaoxing man surnamed Meng, who was always unknown to the people, and so was finally called Little Shaoxing. Little Shaoxing will get up in the middle of the night every day to grind rice flour, steam muffins, and then pick up the cake stretcher to sell along the street at dawn, so as to support themselves and their blind mother.

One year, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the city god mountain was crowded with tourists. Not a moment's effort, Xiao Shaoxing's muffin will be sold only a small piece of broken corner of the small Shaoxing remembered that his mother has not eaten breakfast, so he left this piece of broken corner of the cake ready to take home to his mother to eat. When he walked to the City God Temple, only to see a ragged, white-haired old man, is resting his head on the two broken bowls to reach out to the people begging, it is very sympathetic to touch out a few coins to the old man. But the old man did not want the money, but to ask for a piece of muffin to eat, Xiao Shaoxing took out the piece of muffin left for his mother and handed it to the old man, who ate it nonchalantly. Xiao Shaoxing returned home and told his mother about this, and she praised Xiao Shaoxing's behavior. From then on, every day when he saw the old man, he would give him a piece of muffin when he walked past the temple gate.

One day, when the old man saw Shaoxing handing him a piece of cake, he asked, "What's wrong with you?" Xiao Shaoxing replied: "Because of the rainy days, business is slow, my mother ate the leftover muffins and got sick, and now I can't think." After hearing this, the old man laughed and said, "Don't worry, there is nothing to eat, but I have good medicine here." Said, from the pocket took out a gourd to the small Shaoxing, and instructed him to do the muffin when the gourd in the medicine into the muffin, so his mother's illness will be good.

After the old man finished talking, he disappeared like a breeze, and Xiao Shaoxing realized that he had met a fairy. Thinking of the old man every day lying in that mouth to mouth in the broken bowl together, snapped awake to realize that this is Lu Dongbin.

Xiao Shaoxing happy to return home, according to Lv Dongbin pointed out the method of making muffins, the first gourd out of the medicine put a little bit of cake into the cake powder made of cake embryo, and then put on the fire steam steam through, and so the cake cooled down and then a piece of discharge in the charcoal fire baked into a golden brown color. This baked muffin will emit a strange fragrance, three days and three nights of water and rice did not enter the old mother smelled this fragrance, suddenly feel hungry want to eat muffin, the old mother ate the cake the next day after the disease will be well.

From then on, Xiao Shaoxing has been using this method of cake. Because of this cake peculiar aroma, eat the sweet and savory, everyone is full of praise. So change the name of the muffin "fragrant cake", and because the fragrant cake is small Shaoxing made, and was called "Shaoxing fragrant cake". Later, people realized that the fragrant cake put in the medicine is the Chinese medicine in the sand nuts. Because of the warm nature of sand nuts, can regulate the qi and broaden the chest, strengthen the spleen and stomach, improve appetite, applicable to the spleen and stomach stagnation and indigestion and other diseases. This is what makes Xiangcao a long-lasting and popular traditional snack.

The Divine Doctor

In Gusu City, there was a poor, filial son named Ye Baimin. He was stupid by nature, and after twenty years of reading, he could not even write ordinary words in a decent way. Because his family was so poor, he could not afford to buy ink, paper and inkstones. But he could not afford to buy a pen, ink, paper and inkstones. He was able to earn a meager salary by practicing medicine in a pharmacy to support his father.

Later, when Ye's father was seriously ill, Ye Baimin did not have the money to buy medicine or to hire a famous doctor, so he went to the temple of Lu Zu to pray for some incense ash, and said that he was willing to cut off his arm to save his father's life, and folded his own life to his father, and it happened that he came across the invisible Lu Dongbin, who, after arriving at his house, sprinkled some water on his father's face, and instantly relieved him of his illness. Lv Dongbin saw his filial piety, and so poor, intended to help him. So he turned into a beggar again and begged at Ye's house.

The father of Ye, who had just recovered from a serious illness, heard the sound of beggars begging outside the door, and said, "By the blessing of the gods, I was lucky to be cured of my illness. So in the future, all my time will be given to me by the gods." Father Ye urged his son to be extraordinarily good and do good deeds. Following that, he went on to say, "Although our family is poor, there are more than enough poor people in the world. You and I think we are suffering, but maybe there are people who are suffering more than us? Listen, there is a beggar outside who is begging, and this person is even worse off than us." Said, let Ye Baimin will just eat the leftover cold rice, and some salted vegetables and fresh meat bought back in the morning, all give the beggar.

Hundred Min walked out of the house, sighed to the beggar and said, "Aiya, big brother, see you look good, a talented person, but poorer than our father and son. It's really pitiful." Said let him wait a moment, hundred people took out two bowls of rice, two pieces of meat, a dish of pickles, placed in the hall, let the beggar come in to eat.

Lu Dongbin intended to test him, so he frowned and said critically, "Your family can't be so frugal, right, how can it be so little meat? Just so small two pieces, is all let me eat, but also not enough to moisturize my intestines?"

Ye Baimin was surprised to hear that there is such a beggar in the world, giving him food and picking and choosing. He saw the beggar looks good, a talent, so asked him, how to live along the door bowl life?

Lu Dongbin feigned anger and said: "I came to your house, is your guest. You go to think of ways to get a few more dishes over, we drink a back, only like words! Besides, you have a big pot of meat and a jar of steaming white rice hidden in your house, why don't you bring it out? This is the way of hospitality."

Ye Baimin is even more surprised, thinking that today encountered a rare thing, said to him: "This brother is a good joke. Little brother is so poor, even ordinary vegetables can not afford to buy, is this pork, but also because of my father recovered from a serious illness, no appetite, I was a small shirt, for a little money, bought a little pork burned to his old man appetizer. I didn't have a big pot of pork. There was only a liter of rice, and that was left for the evening and tomorrow morning. Ready-made rice, that's all there is. Where is the pot of rice? This elder brother, do you intend to make me happy?"

Lu Dongbin laughed and pulled him under the stove to see that there was indeed a large pot of meat and a jar of steaming rice. Ye Baimin was dumbstruck with surprise. At that moment, he suddenly had a moment of clarity in his heart and knew that he must have met a high person, so he fell down and worshipped Lu Dongbin, even though the other party was still in the form of a beggar.

Ye Baimin put the meat and rice in front of Lu Dongbin and respectfully asked him to enjoy it. Lu Dongbin was not polite, ate thirty bowls in a row before standing up, stretched, touched his stomach, leaned up to the sky and gave a harrumph, then fell into a deep sleep on the table. Ye family father and son know that he is a high person, do not dare to neglect for a moment, quietly kneeling on the ground, waiting for him to wake up.

Lu Dongbin woke up, saw the father and son kneeling on the ground, several times to call them to stand up, but the father and son to honor the gods, kneeling and refused to get up. Lu Dongbin pretended to be angry, and spit out everything he ate, spitting all over the ground, even the father and son's body and head, also stained with a lot.

When they looked up again, they realized that the beggar had disappeared, and only smelled a fragrance that was refreshing and intoxicating. Upon closer inspection, the aroma emanated from the very thing the beggar had spat out. Only to get up, sighing that they have no immortal fate, the two sighed a lot of each other.

The father and son swept out what the beggar spit out and threw it on the patio mud floor. Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, suddenly a branch of vanilla from the soil, spreading the fragrance filled the whole room. This fragrance into the five viscera and six bowels, immediately people all around the body comfortable, spirit of a hundred times. Ye father's hair suddenly turned from white to black, eyes become bright, even hearing also improved a lot, walking like flying.

Ye Baimin smelled the fragrance, and his mind became extraordinarily clear, and his body and mind were happy. From then on, his wisdom was greatly opened, and his mind became clear. All the prescriptions he prescribed were able to hit the nail on the head. He put a handful of herbs in each pair of medicines, and the patients ate his medicines, all can get rid of the disease.

People heard that Ye Baimin's medical skills, looking for him to see a constant stream of people. From then on, within a radius of hundreds of miles, anyone who was sick would rush to the Ye family to see the doctor. Under the shelter of the immortals, Ye Baimin practiced medicine to help people and made good karma. He cured the sick and saved people, and gave benevolence to the local community, and in less than three years, he became a rich man. This filial son of God and respect for Taoism, but also by the world praised as "God doctor", renowned party.

Several stories, good people good reward, real, God and Buddha wisdom eye can not be deceived!