Sun Jiran

Sun Jiran, whose given name was Yuan Zheng and whose pseudonym was Jiran Zi. A Taoist priest of Wudang in the early Southern Song Dynasty. According to the "Great Mountain Taihe Mountain Annals" and the "Junzhou Annals", Sun Wei became a monk at the Qingguan Temple on Maoshan Mountain in the late Northern Song Dynasty. He mastered the Five Thunderbolts and other Taoist arts of the Upper Qing Dynasty with exquisite skills and extraordinary elixir cultivation. After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, he began to swim in the Yangtze River and Han River basins. In the 11th year of the Shaoxing era of the Southern Song Dynasty (1141), he led his disciples westward to climb Wudang. At this time, the Wudang temples and monasteries, having been looted and burned by the Jin troops during their invasion of the Song Dynasty for a long time, were almost all in ruins. Sun Jiran was determined to restore the Wudang Xuanmen. To raise funds for the restoration of temples and monasteries, he went out among the common people and used talisman water to treat diseases. At that time, a plague was widely spread among the people. Wherever he went, he would write a red talisman and throw it into the well water. The people drank it and the plague was immediately eradicated. Therefore, in the Central Plains region, the number of believers increased day by day and donations were enthusiastic. After years of fundraising, the various palaces and temples in Wudang, led by the Five Dragons Palace, have gradually been restored to their original state. He led his disciples to forge ahead through thorns and brambles to open up the path of incense offerings, and the incense offerings in Wudang grew increasingly prosperous. The reputation of Taoism in Wudang has once again spread far and wide. Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, upon hearing of Sun Jiran's high reputation, specially summoned him to the capital to perform talismans, and all of them were accepted. He highly praised him and ordered ten Taoists to be ordered to pass away. He returned to the mountain and passed away without any illness. He passed away at about a hundred years old. The disciple buried him in the east of Taoyuan Cave. He was buried with a crown sword.